Persona 5
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…
Persona 5 is an adventure developed by P Studio, released 15 September 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 119.2 hrs to finish.
What Persona 5 is
Persona 5 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. It runs on Gamebryo.
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 Staying with friends of his parents, he meets up with problem child Ryuji Sakamoto, the withdrawn Ann Takamaki, art student Yusuke Kitagawa, and a talking, shape-shifting cat-like creature known as Morgana.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…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series
Persona 5 is the 120th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue in 2017. Its critic score of 94 is 14 points above the series average of 80. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Persona 5 holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 26 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 93, across 1,138 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 119.2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 195 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Persona 5 launched on 15 September 2016, within three weeks of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition and Forza Horizon 3. It reviewed better than all of them. 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: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Forza Horizon 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Persona 5 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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