Persona 5 Tactica
Persona 5 Tactica | ||
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Director(s) Naoya Maeda | | |
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Composer(s) | Toshiki Konishi | |
Series | Persona | |
Engine | Unity | |
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Release | November 17, 2023 | |
Single-player |
Persona 5 Tactica
Persona 5 Tactica takes place concurrently with the events of
Persona 5 Tactica entered development due to a desire at Atlus to create a game in the strategy role-playing genre within the Persona series, leveraging the publisher's past experiences with similarly styled games, in addition to the correlation between the genre and the established world of Persona 5.
Gameplay
Persona 5 Tactica is a
The player is able to collect additional Personas and equip them to any of the characters as Sub-Personas to grant additional skills.[3] These Personas may be obtained as rewards from battle, or fusing multiple Personas together.[5]
Plot
Main story
Sometime during the events of
Suddenly, the party is transported into an alternate,
The thieves attempt to go home but instead arrive in a Edo period-like Kingdom ruled by Lord Yoshiki, a ruler who operates under the pretense of being a calm leader. The group is helped by a woman named Yuki, and as the fights with Yoshiki's forces progress, it is revealed Lord Yoshiki is Toshiro's stern father Yoshiki Kasukabe, a corrupt politician himself who raised Toshiro strictly to the point of abuse. This revelation, along with Marie's connection to Toshiro, causes the party to realize that the world they have been transported to is based on Toshiro's cognition. In a final confrontation with Yoshiki, Yuki is revealed to be Toshiro's deceased mother, who then sacrifices herself to save Toshiro and defeat Yoshiki.
The thieves then move on to the third Kingdom, modeled after Toshiro’s former high school. As the thieves traverse the school in search of the keys to a potential door home, Toshiro’s past with his former classmate Eri Natsuhara, a fellow student council member, is revealed: After reports of abuse and blackmail by vice-principal Ichiro Nakabachi, the two rallied his victims to expose his crimes. However, the student rebellion resulted in Nakabachi becoming the target of a lynch mob of students, some of whom never suffered at his hands. This caused a crazed Nakabachi to stalk Eri and Toshiro to a train station and push Eri onto the tracks. Eri survives, albeit badly injured and losing her will to fight. The similarity between Eri and Erina is pointed out by the party. Assuming the kingdom's ruler is Nakabachi, the thieves soon learn the mysterious ruler is someone else entirely, who in turn kidnaps Erina.
In an attempt to save her, it is revealed to the party that the Kingdom's true ruler is Shadow Toshiro, who is consumed by guilt and resentment towards Eri for causing Toshiro such trauma and dismay, and now aims to rid of Erina, who cognitively based on Eri. Having fallen to despair due to the machinations of the ruler, Toshiro remembers that an injured Eri told him that the victims had thanked them for leading the rebellion and exposing the truth, and Eri never regretted her actions despite the results, instead encouraging Toshiro to continue fighting until she could catch up to him. With Toshiro’s newfound resolve, Erina finally gains her newfound freedom and transforms herself into his Persona, Ernesto, as part of his awakening, to defeat Shadow Toshiro.
However, Shadow Toshiro's demise attracts the attention of the mastermind, the god-like tyrant Salmael, having aimed to repress Toshiro's inner rebellion in order to forcefully bring about an era of peace. Salmael offers the thieves a way home in exchange for their memories and Personas, however, the thieves reject the offer and defeat him. Now able to go back home, the thieves are forced to emotionally part ways with Erina, since as a part of Toshiro's own heart, she is unable to leave his cognitive world and bid them farewell.
Back in the real world, the party learns that Toshiro has withdrawn from his political campaign and exposed the crimes of his father and fiancé in a press conference. They then receive a phone call from Toshiro, who expresses respect and gratitude for all they have done for him, thanks them for their alliance, and wishes them to meet again someday. With the rebellion finally done, Toshiro vows to start his political journey anew with an emphasis on bettering society.
A post-credits scene depicts Toshiro going to the hospital, where he emotionally reunites with a recovered Eri, now using a cane, who says she has finally caught up to him.
"Repaint Your Heart"
Street artist Guernica has painted protest art on government buildings overnight. When a mural depicting
While the trio is recovering the parts of Guernica's statement piece, they are interrupted by her parrot, Jerri, who insists that the violence was Guernica's wish. Guernica appears and fights the trio, not recognizing them or Luca. Guernica witnesses a part of the piece, is weakened, and recognizes Luca as her older sister. The real Luca died years ago, and the young Luca that Guernica remembered was guiding Joker, Akechi, and Kasumi. As children, Guernica and Luca made the statement piece together.
Guernica retreats and begins to contemplate what she's done, but Jerri further manipulates her in her weakened state into turning her rage at the status quo against ordinary people. Jerri plans to unleash Guernica in the real world. Joker, Akechi, Kasumi, and Luca recover the last part of Guernica's statement piece. Luca reminds Guernica of their original ideals to stand up for people and disappear. Guernica is restored to her true self and defeats Jerri. The trio return to the real world and lose their memories, Guernica continues creating protest art in the real world, and Jerri speaks to her superior before disappearing.
Development
Persona 5 Tactica was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase in June 2023.[8] To coincide with the game's reveal, Weekly Famitsu published a series of interviews with several staff involved with the game. The first, conducted with the game's director Naoya Maeda, producer Kazuhisa Wada and business producer Atsushi Nomura, revealed details on the motivation behind making a Persona-themed strategy game, with Wada remarking on Tactica's potential for "expanding the possibilities of the series", in addition to his personal desire to tell a new story with the Persona 5 characters. Maeda further spoke to the game's accessibility to casual players who were not as familiar or skilled at playing strategy role-playing games, highlighting the ease of seeing ally and enemy advantages and weaknesses through their positions on the battle grids. Persona 5 vocalist Lyn Inaizumi contributed new themes to the game's score, composed by Atlus Sound Team member Toshiki Konishi.[7] Konishi used similar lyrics and riffs across the game's soundtrack to make the songs "feel connected" to each other.[9] The game's battle music was made to not be overly rousing so that players would not be distracted.[9]
Wada stated the desire to produce Tactica came from a lack of a tactics-based game in the Persona series despite Atlus' prior experience producing games in that genre, including
Release
Persona 5 Tactica was released for
Downloadable content
The game was released alongside additional DLC. First print copies of Persona 5 Tactica were pre-loaded with two extra Personas for Joker to use in battle, Izanagi Picaro and Orpheus Picaro.
Reception
Persona 5 Tactica received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[26]
Reviewers generally praised the game's themes of rebelling against oppression,[24][25][27] but Polygon and RPGFan considered the execution to be "taking a safe route" and "ring[ing] hollow" respectively.[28][1]
From November 13 to 19, the game sold at least an estimated 49,928 physical units in Japan.[29]
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