Again in April 2021, writer Excellent World Video games introduced cellular venture Code Title: X and implied within the heaviest method potential that it was related to the Persona 5 universe. Now, through Gematsu, Excellent World and developer Black Wings Recreation Studio have totally revealed Persona 5: The Phantom X, a free-to-play RPG for Android and iOS cellular units that mixes acquainted mechanics with a model new story and characters. The Persona 5: The Phantom X announcement trailer and gameplay trailer truly look fairly spectacular.
Whereas Excellent World and Black Wings are distributing and working the sport, Sega and Atlus’ P-Studio, the unique developer of Persona 5, are supervising the sport and offering extra assets. This consists of Atlus artist Shigenori Soejima designing the protagonist and the protagonist’s Persona, lending some good visible continuity. Per Gematsu’s translation, the story of The Phantom X will concern college students awakening to their Personas and confronting difficulties collectively in an period of “low want.” The remainder of it seems like typical Persona, with daytime actions like baseball and nighttime actions like battling by way of palaces in one other world. When you watch the trailers, it additionally simply appears to be like like typical Persona, in a very good and sort of spectacular method.
Persona 5: The Phantom X doesn’t have a launch date but, and there doesn’t appear to be any indication of whether or not it will likely be localized internationally. Contemplating how a lot effort appears to be getting put into it to make it actually really feel like Persona 5 although, this may very well be the uncommon cellular recreation to garner real enthusiasm from the hardcore RPG viewers. Take a look at just a few extra screenshots beneath and ask your self if this appears to be like like your normal cellular money seize (or if it even appears to be like like a cellular recreation).
In the meantime, as we ponder the existence of a Persona 5 cellular RPG, we nonetheless should confront the truth that there isn’t a Persona 6 in sight. There’s a Shin Megami Tensei live performance headed to North America for the primary time although.