Clearing out one of the prescribed “Palaces” - major ingame dungeons - is still also a three-afternoon affair at minimum at least one day to locating the boss area, a second to the procedure of “sending a calling card” so the Phantom Thieves can force the boss to appear, and a third to fighting the boss. Between school life and after school, you can build the social statistics of your main character through activities or increase the bond with confidants to provide enhancements to dungeon combat, which will take up most of the time.
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For comparison, Persona 3 Portable starts on the 6th of April and open exploration starts on the 22nd, though a week of that is skipped due to the main character being rendered comatose. The first in game day is April 9, while the first day choice opened up for what to do was the 18th this took about five hours of real time.
Persona games are known for a slow start and snowballing quickly - Persona 5 isn’t as bad in this regard, though it did take nine days of ingame time before I could choose what I wanted to do after school. They are aided by “Confidants”, characters who provide expanded capabilities through “deals” with the protagonist. (Any similarities between Persona 5 Royal and the world as it exists in October 2022 are entirely coincidental, though you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.) In the “Metaverse”, the main character and several classmates manifest aspects of their personalities - the titular Personas - which emerge as famous rebellious figures of myth and end up forming a group commonly referred to as the Phantom Thieves: as the Thieves move through the school year, they have to take down corrupted adults of increasing power before eventually battling the human cognition itself. The self-named main character is stuck in the city as a condition of probation for trumped-up assault charges and on their first day at their new school find themselves trapped in an alternate reality created by overpowered desires of authority figures known as the “Metaverse”. The three Persona games that will come to Switch between now and January are all crosses between social adventures and turn-based RPGs, but Persona 5 Royal is the only one to be set predominantly in Tokyo proper. And after several months of student life and stylish fighting, Persona 5 Royal holds up perfectly in its portable form. Now that Sega and Atlus have started to bring the previously-PlayStation exclusive series’s main entries to all platforms this week, the question immediately became how the Switch would handle a game previously exclusive to the PlayStation 4.
The drumbeat of “put Persona 5 on Switch” has been sounding virtually non-stop since the second month of the Switch’s life, and the cries only intensified after the main character became the first part of the first Super Smash Bros Ultimate Fighter’s Pass in 2019.
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