Persona 5: Ultimate Edition (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Persona 5: Ultimate Edition

Persona 5, a turn-based JRPG with visual novel elements, follows a high school student with a criminal record for a crime he didn't commit. Soon he meets several characters who share similar fates to him, and…

15 September 2016

What Persona 5: Ultimate Edition is

Persona 5: Ultimate Edition is an adventure game developed by P Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story focuses on the 16-year-old protagonist after he is transferred to Syujin High School in Tokyo, Japan. Staying with friends of his parents, he meets up with problem child Ryuji Sakamoto, the withdrawn Ann Takamaki, art student Yusuke Kitagawa, and a talking, shape-shifting cat-like creature known as Morgana. During the protagonist's time there, feeling suppressed by their environment, the five form a group known as the "Phantom Thieves of Hearts", working together to explore the "Palace", a castle created by the hearts of people, and steal ill intent from others' hearts to help them: during this quest, they confront adult authority figures opposing them, along with a greater enemy…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Persona 5: Ultimate Edition is the 119th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Persona 5 in 2016.

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What it launched against

Persona 5: Ultimate Edition launched on 15 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

Official trailer