Persona 5 Vanilla and Royal Differences - Major Changes 

PART 2 (Persona 5 Vanilla and Royal Differences - Prologue/Kamoshida Arc): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oZRdoDBJYK8.html So, let me correct a few small errors made in this video. 3:55 - Here I state that the models in Persona 5 Royal have been ripped from Dancing. The source is an article from Inverse but I've also seen the Megami Tensei Wiki and others state similar things. However, this claim has since been disputed by some knowledgeable people in the community. Apparently, Royal uses the same models as Vanilla Persona 5, but the textures have been enhanced. 5:55 - I made an error here and claimed you only have to get Maruki to Rank 8 manually, and Rank 9&10 happen automatically. This is incorrect, you have to get Maruki to Rank 9 manually, and Rank 10 will happen automatically. 13:40 - Savage Shadows are not a new addition to Persona 5 Royal and existed in Vanilla Persona 5. They do seem to appear more commonly in Royal however. I apologize for all of these errors. And no, this series is not cancelled but has been on the backburner for quite a while, however, with Persona 5 Royal getting a recent port to all platforms I feel now would be the perfect time to continue the series, so I plan to get it started soon. Although, I also have Randomizer to upload as well so give me time.

Major difference: Gun ammo is replenished after every fight so you can use your gun more often.

Man, for me, just the fact that Morgana asks you to sleep less often is a huge improvement.

In the introduction during royal, the character portraits are blacked out, while in vanilla they were just completely empty

In vanilla if the palace security level got to 100% it would kick you out the palace, but in royal just more enemies spawn

Another good change I think is worth mentioning is that in P5R, your ammo for your guns reload after every fight. This encourages you to use your guns more and a Huge quality of life upgrade in my books cause in Vanilla P5 you couldn't reload until you left the palace or used a very rare item.

This is very interesting for someone like me who played Royal but never played the vanilla version. With the exception of Kasumi I never knew what content was added in Royal and what was in the base game all along.

For those who don’t have p5r and are hesitant because of the price, it goes on sale very often for about 39.99 or more depending on the sale. Specially neat if you’ve already played the original. If you can wait a little, it’ll definitely be worth the extra cash in my opinion.

You need to get maruki confidant to lvl 9, only 10 is automatic.

Morgana not telling you to sleep is actually way bigger then you make it out to be, cause during that time you could at least do stuff in LeBlanc like read a book, play a video game, watch TV, exercise, make coffee etc. In the original you would lose a bunch of these opportunists because of Morgana telling you to go to sleep.

And there's a LOT of small details in Persona 5 Royal that are not in Persona 5, load screens, textures, etc. There are things you only notice while playing both games one after another, as P5 is a masterpiece, and if you play you may think there's nothing that needs to be changed there BUT after you play P5R you just can't go back to P5. That's how good an upgrade it is.

5:55 False, you need to get him to rank 9 not 8, once you get him to 9 you basically maxed him out. i think you're confusing maruki with akechi cuz you only need to get akechi to rank 8

There's also sadly a story telling mechanic in the will seed but was scraped, but some people found due to a bit of hacking and was left in the coding. It is essentially a way for the player to convey each time you get a will seed, you get to see the perspective of the palace holder and their desires getting distorted, and collecting all the will seeds, you get a scene where the moment when their palaces began to manifest and after that the Palace ruler feels like someone was going through their palace, they're slowly aware of your presence. The ones that are revealed in Kamoshida and Madarame, since those are the ones found in the code. Theirs even that early part in the P5R trailer was scrapped

You see takemi walking in the backstreets on your way to sakura’s house

Damn Persona traits seemed so natural and logic that i forgot it wasnt in the original game

In the vanilla version, Makoto texts you to go for a movie date during 7/30, if you accept there's a short funny cutscene where she's waiting for you outside the theater. But in Royal, Makoto only sends you a message the 28/7 but you can only see that text if you reject Ryuji's offer to spend the day in Leblanc since he will ask you the day before to hang out during the 28th. If you decide to go with Makoto during the evening, the cutscene where she is waiting for you is completely skipped and you will be teleported directly into the movie theater with her.

Any and all money is worth it for this game, even if you’ve played the content in the vanilla version and just want the third semester’s story content. It’s just that good.

I bought p5r when it was on sale for 55% off. Best purchase I've made in awhile. I already had p5 for free with the ps plus collection on ps5 so I got a taste for the game and decided to upgrade. I recommend everyone else to get royal if they can. Lots of quality of life changes. Especially with the changes to guns.

The best thing about the vanilla version is the intro and the ending. I wish there was a option in Royale to pick which intro and ending version plays in a new game.

I think that everyone should play Royal, because it goes on sale a LOT, plus with how long the game is, it’d make more sense to simply save up and play Royal. Also, even if you for SOME reason hate Royal stuff, for the most part you can just ignore the Royal stuff like Maruki and Kasumi.

Correction on Maruki’s, manually go to Rank 9, automatically go to Rank 10.

I played the game twice and I never knew that you could increase party members’ technical damage.

I like that merciless mode actually gives you additional money & experience(1.2 as a number figure)

Thanks for the video. Just looking into Persona 5 for the first time, and you clarified my confusion in the first few minutes!

Got the info i needed by 3:00, Thank you. with no spoilers ill watch the rest, well done.

Thank you you literally answered my question within the first 4 min now I’ll play and figure out the rest lol

Another difference between vanilla and Royal is the VA for Tae Takemi is not the same. Not sure why it was changed but I really liked the Voice for the vanilla version. Royals VA wasn’t bad but after 6 playthroughs on the vanilla it definitely felt weird.

Ah, the intro is so nice, we shall await patiently for the next part

Thank you for this series! I beat Vanilla a few months ago and own Royal but haven't had the chance to pick it up yet, but hearing all these changes makes me giddy to start!!

Thank you soooo much i was looking for this kind of video. 😊

I love the voice acting in this game. Confidently can say it’s the best voice acting in any video game that I’ve played!

I only played royal but I appreciate the vid because it clued me in to what was improved. Thanks!

The graphics have been touched up pretty nicely it’s clearly less grainy and jagged

I really like the idea of this video series and I’m really looking forward to it!! Do you plan on continuing your randomizer series?

One way to look at P5 and P5R to understand it more is to see it as similar Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix

Finaly some plain clear explination, Thanks good sir.

Amzing one. This is probably my 5th video trying to see what the heck is P5 versions, got my answer in 1st 5 minutes

Fantastic video, very interesting, well voiced and edited, you got me hyped to watch the whole series of---- oh. There never were any more videos. 😢

Thanks for the straight forward and clear video!

I LOVE SCREENMENTS! WOOOOO SCREENMENTS!

very good video lad

I recently got a used PS4 and I just started Persona 5 Royal. I have already completed 3 FES, 4 Golden, and TMS#FE En. Thanks for the helpful video!

i VERY MUCH appreciate the first 3 minutes of differentiating between the titles. I was avoiding persona 5 strikers because I had zero clue about it and thought it was rehashing the game I already played. Now that I know it happens after the events of 5, I may get it and actually play it.

I've played the vanilla version on ps3 way back when it first came out, and I enjoyed it But with the announcement of a PC release, I am definitely looking at getting Royal. Even at full price. I haven't played the game fully through since that first time, so it'll be fun to see all the changes and get to re-experience stuff with a fresh coat of paint

Thanks for this video! Might buy it after finished the vanilla version soon…

Very clear explanation Sir.

Thank you, Persona 5 royal was just announced for switch and I didn’t know the difference between Royal and Vanilla

Watching this in November of 2022 & it feels like a fever dream that it’s on all platforms

Stuck at work waiting to go home so I can keep my eyes glued to this beautiful game

I was tempted to play new game plus and get all the trophies in the OG but after watching this I’m heading straight to royal! My brother is a fan of the games so we already have both

I am really loving this series so far, hopefully episode 2 comes out soon.

Started playing PS5R when it was released on XBOX Game Pass. Amazing to see how much of what feel like standard (but still very awesome and unique) mechanics wouldn't have been in the orginal. Thanks for the video, fam.

Tfw when they didn't fixed the space maze pain

Oh damn I had a feeling Maruki’s confidant was on a timer, now I know for sure I need to work on it. I’m in the middle of summer break currently however, so it’s on hold.

I played 10 hours of P5 and saw Royal o. Sale and instantly bought it.. The refill of the gun alone sold me at first.. made the game so much easier

If you're going to play Strikers after Royal and not play the Vanilla game, keep in mind that Strikers was in development before Royal, so it follows the plotline of the vanilla game. I.E. characters who appear specifically in Royal will not appear in Strikers.

I would like to add the fact that the ps3 version has a surprisingly large amount if mods for it, which in my eyes make it the best version of vanilla p5 (at least when emulated using rpcs3). They've modded in new outfits (including the p5r dlc outfits), new battle music, "new" protagonists like p3mc and p3p's femc, the p3 and p4 protagonist boss fights from royals dlc and added some of royals improvements like 60fps, 4k resolution and the improved bust-ups.

Nice video! When will the next part come? 🙆‍♂️

I've played Strikers first Because I saw it on PS Plus and said "Fine, I'll do it" and after the first Chapter I got hooked. Haven't played Royal or Vanilla yet but I gotta say. Strikers didn't spoil much about the Main Game, and I easily got attached to every character. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who says that Haru is Waifu Material.

You just got yourself a #NewSubscriber man.💙💚❤️🖤😎

So glad I checked this video, I didn't know I had to raise up Maruki's confidant to access the new palace

I appreciate this

I finally got this game recently and played so much it's so good!

Thank you for clarifying that its only Maruki's confidant that needs to be maxed out inorder to get the 3rd semester

We need Persona 6 with Nanako as MC

Thanks for this video! I purchased Vanilla back in 2018 but only got to finish the game this year. I think at the time I got the OG game, Royal wasn't released yet. So, had I known that I would not have beaten the game until this year and that we were going to get an enhanced version, I think I would have waited to get Royal instead of the Vanilla game. But now that I've beaten the base game I don't think I need to get Royal. I'm fine with the game I already had.

Royal was really good but it still wasn't perfect. Kasumi was admittedly pretty tacked on and the third arc was a little too short with the big twist they were living in a different reality not really being explored just like shooed away after a handful of (unvoiced) cutscenes. Plus the final boss was interesting but the final form was a glorified cutscene as well. I felt we easily could've had one more palace (Sumire's) before the final one given a lot of the dates in the third arc you don't even get to play. Those gripes aside it was still an excellent game overall with a bunch of added scenes to freshen up the main game, I was surprised how much they added tbh, with a cool new area and Mementos was actually sort of fun to explore. The Will Seeds made one shotting Kamoshida's Palace so much easier and made exploring Palaces a bit more interesting.

within the first 3 and a half min of the video u answered all my questions. thanks for that efficiency. ive been seeing this franchise around a lot and been wondering to try it out. for the longest time i was confused where to begin with so many 'persona 5's but u basically set it straight: persona 5 royal first, then persona 5 striker. and the fact that they're both fully fledged games, starting with turn based rpg and moving to action rpg seems like the perfect crescendo of interactivity that i was hoping to have next to each other. once again, thanks. u are good at ur work. i appreciate u.

This is good!

Did you ever continue this series? Im interested in knowing more

Thanks. I really thought I was hallucinating when Morgana stopped telling me to sleep.

CN you make a video on all the minor changes? I played Royal twice and I still think I missed small stuff. I was watching Krystalogy's let's play and discovered a new item in Akihabara.

Thx dude

The will seeds/crystals actually are based off of the eight deadly sins with the additional one being vanity which literature most often combines with pride thus resulting in the seven deadly sins. Sloth which would be one of the seven deadly sins is not included in the will seeds, but vanity is.

Holy freck that's a lot of changes

Ty bro

Note regarding themes: the promotion had ended in September 2021 according to playstation support (some themes may still have codes available so I would not write off giving up).

Damn i only played royal and that grapple hook area at kamoshida's palace looked totally different lol

Man thank you so much, im about to enter the rabbit hole and dont know what to buy

As someone with hundreds of hiurs into both games, this was still fun to watch

i finally got p5r after so long and i haven't vanilla in a couple years so when i finally realized that morgana doesnt ask me to sleep that much i was so happy

Hi. I'm currently playing the vanilla version as it was included in the playstation 5 collection. I'm at level 45 and have progressed pretty far in the story. I saw P5R on sale on PS store, should I buy it and play royal instead or finish the vanilla version?

You can see makoto stalking you on your way to the hideout

Both are good imo, they have different feel.

I'm curious are you still working on this series? As I just came across this video and saw it was made a year ago and can't find any other videos in the series.

I'm gonna get p5s soon, after I finish the royale story, I am so exited, I'm such a sucker for warriors games!

From someone who played vanilla first, royal added some little things that improve your experience so much, like the will seeds that restore sp, man when I went through shido palace I didn't have sp for akechi (first time doing it and trying in one day), also an encounter in kamoshida's palace was removed, where there were 4 succubus using marin karin and I died a lot of times because they would spam it and take joker or ryuji, morgana not telling you to sleep so often was gamechanging for me because I literally wanted to punch the cat so many times for not letting me go( even when I didn't go to the metaverse), this gave me much more time to improve, I agree that royal makes things easier, but I think it is consequence of how many new tools you have, and they only make the experience more enjoyable.

I'm so happy i maxed out maruki just in time!

I've been playing Persona 5 Royal years after the fact and I had no idea they made so many small changes that add to the experience

You forgot to mention how Baton Pass and Technical damage has been changed in Royal.

There kinda is a 5th version of P5 called Persona 5 Ultimate. I thought that was the one which would include everything, so I made a mistake and got that instead of Royal. It was only after I pulled the disk out and started playing it that I found I had got it wrong.

I know about p5t and p5s but dancing in the starlight has eluded me so far, looks fun as hell!

Was this series dropped? Was really looking forward to more videos.

kind of wish akechi's social link worked the same way as in vanilla as when i was looking about whether i had to fill maruki's social link i saw that to get the true ending you have to max maruki out and i think you only have to get kasumi to rank 5 but since beating the game a couple of days ago i recommend getting her to rank 10. but yeah those make sense what doesn't make sense is that your supposed to get akechi to rank 8 which was super annoying because there wasn't really any indication that his social link was even important anything. luckily just doing maruki and kasumi's social link was enough the final cut scene is different it but it's nothing too major to be honest.

With some of the features, I assumed they were also in the default. Like ___'s Palace and will seeds. Cant imagine a game without them.

Nice

thanks for info about new palace in Royal. I am now will try lo unlock it) Because I think I ignored Takuto Maruki at least once

How do you get the themes for your ps4? I heard that you subscribe to the newsletter but nothing happened after that, is there another way to get them or am I doing something wrong?

I love Persona so much. All of them

As someone who played only the base game, one down aspect for me on royal is that the game seems way more easy now, is it just a impression or am i right?