Looking Back At - Persona 5 Royal | Remastered Review 

Though the one major problem is what he mentioned about Kasumi. The third semester is really just Persona 5's equivalent of The Answer from Persona 3 FES where it's just a brand new story taking place after the original story and it's only there when Kasumi is finally a playable party member and it was hinted that she was going to play a major part later in the main story, but she never does, she offers to help during the third act of the main story, but they turn her down for reason that are non sensible, which is at a point in the story where they need as much help as they can and they've seen her take down shadows like a pro. That alone really makes Royal feel like an enhanced version that doesn't really want to be an enhanced version in terms of story because they're afraid that they're going to upset the fanboys if they do. Sorry, but in terms of story, this is the only thing that bothers me about Royal. If they really want to save her plot relevance just for the third semester, I'd say in the main story, she should have the same amount of screen time as, say, Mishima, and have her awakening take place at the start of Maruki's Palace.

@@spydersoup8447 Woa i wouldn't compare the third semester with the answer, the answer removes the life sim and its straight up dungeon crawling at its worst especially with the difficulty and terrible level design, it felt like an unnecessary continuation of the story its nowhere near on par with Persona 3's base game's story(atleast the second half) Third semester feels like an expansion it has its own unique story and its loosely connected to the main story like the witcher 3 blood and wine/HOS. As for kasumi i feel she is in a very awkward position where She either feels shoehorned into a story where she does not belong and they will have to rewrite the dialogues to each arc. Or she will feel like an underutalized character, i personally liked what they did with her character she appears here and there and you can level up her confidant i also really liked the twist with her character.

​@@user-rk2xi7iw9k it more in quality but it kinda is now that he mentioned it.kasumi was playable for one part which was disappointing.she deserved more.maybe brought her into the mainplot after her perosona initially awakened.if they can't change enough in the main plot for a new character dnt add them

Okumura's palace is pain and you're not letting it by especially when his boss fight got more annoying in Royal.

Dammit, you beat me to it

Im gonna download it on game pass when i get home

My thought as well. I bought OG P5, then I bought royal. I own a ps5 now, and it’s full price for the “next gen” version? It’s very off putting

The 60fps completely justifies starting over imo, it completely changed and improved the experience

It's even more of an upgrade as I would be restarting on PC. However, as a father in my 30s, I cannot justify restarting the game all over again - when I am quite far into the game. I have too many other games as well in the backlog, just waiting to be finished/started. In my youth, I would have restarted already - having played many games multiple times through. Just no time these days. Adult life sucks. I actually originally tried out the non-royal P5 as I was new to the Persona series. I loved it, so bought P5 Royal and restarted the game again. I believe I had finished the first palace when I restarted, so not too bad. Current playthrough is quite far in, think in November now. I wish I had known about this before, I would just have held off buying P5R and waited for this version on PC. Oh well!

About to play it on my phone with gamepass, never really been into the series but I'll check it out since it's avaliable.

Sadly not, as I didn’t seem to have a problem with Jack Frost in particular. As long as your save file’s all backed up somewhere, I can only suggest reinstalling the game. Sorry. :(

@@TrashorTreasure Turns out I just needed to do the classic "verify game files" on steam and once it redownloaded a few files the cutscene worked properly. So I guess if anyone else gets soft locked in a cutscene like that hopefully you have a recent enough save and just verify files on steam :v

i heard the gamepass version is sometimes crashing, is that true?

60 fps instead of 30 thats it lol

With ps5 u get native 4k/60fps with all dlc on the disk. It's a must if you are a physical game collector.

That’s a fair point and makes a lot of sense. :)

You my friend have excellent taste! My number 1 Persona girl has been Makoto for a long time, with Kasumi coming in at a very close second. Hifumi is very under appreciated as well, I feel! Her arc is great and I love her devious change in personality when she’s heavily focused on shogi, but still has it pretty rough outside of her matches.

@@TrashorTreasure Thank you. Even when I played the original Persona 5, it was tough choosing between Makoto and Hifumi (I refuse to do the harem route because the game punishes you for it). I don't know who I'm gonna romance for my Switch playthrough (maybe Kasumi, but it's hard to romance her because you can't do that until the third semester, and I've got to contend with Makoto and Hifumi, making it even more painful). I was introduced to Makoto and Hifumi through the anime, which is not the best version of Persona 5 since it skips a lot of stuff, but they were easily my favorite characters in it and I definitely shipped them with Joker. When I finally got around to playing Persona 5, they were the first confidants I maxed out, with me romancing Makoto in that run. Speaking of Kasumi, it would have been nice if she had joined the Phantom Thieves earlier. It kinda feels like Atlus didn't know what to do with her for the majority of the game. She definitely would have been helpful during the Shido and Yaldaboath (probably misspelled that) fights, especially since Joker needs all the help he can get. Oh well. Nothing we can do about it now, though I have seen a few fanfics where Kasumi plays a bigger role in the story.

If you're playing well, and using your options, then yeah.

I didn’t think it was THAT bad, but it’s certainly the weakest of the anime adaptations (though I haven’t watched Trinity Soul yet).

No, the best thing to do is play the best version of the game at 60fps

@@TrashorTreasure idk man, I thought It was pretty bad. Although i am sure the English Dub numbs the pain with its funny moments

I think the only difference is that P5 Royal for PS5 comes with all the DLC and has 4k 60fps. P5 Royal for PS4 can only max out at 4k 30fps on PS4 Pro & PS5

There is no difference except 60 fps on PS5 release. Im happy for all the new players on other platforms but for playstation players the current pricing is a straight ripoff.

@@JackTwoFingers There is difference. Ps5 version is native 4k 60fps, while ps4pro is fake 4k 30fps.

I haven't seen anyone say that 60fps doesn't matter on any game. However, 30fps is very much playable on turn based games as long as that 30fps is smooth 30 without dips and with even frame pacing (something the Switch and PS4 versions achieve). I played P5 Strikers on Switch and talk about a laggy. That is unplayable for me at 30fps because the input delay and the inability to smoothly follow what's happening on screen, just puts me off.

@@PurushNahiMahaPurush I'm not saying 30fps isn't playable but I'm not going to lie, if I hear a certain game will only be 30fps, chances are I probably won't be getting it, especially in a age where a lot of current gen games are getting 120fps modes

That’s kinda the “remastered” part of this remaster.

@@TrashorTreasure yeah, but I mean, how "clear" does a game need to look though as long as its playable. Does it bother you?

@@jinchuriki7022 No, it doesn’t bother me at all. The PS4 original still looks fine and I’ve invested a good few hundred hours into it, but since this is a remaster, I have to address the changes to performance. It’s just nice to have options where the game runs smoother and has clearer visuals.

@@TrashorTreasure guess its better than Gotham knights at 30fps. I actually prefer Strikers to royal. Its short and sweet.

@@jinchuriki7022 That’s fair enough, man. Strikers is a great game also. :)

How does that apply here?

@@The_MEMEphis didnt you watch the video?

@@henkhenkste6076 yeah? I don't remember him ever called the game easy it has 5 different difficulty levels if you find the base level to easy you can always turn it up