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Persona 5 Tactica
Developer(s)P-Studio
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Naoya Maeda
Producer(s)Kazuhisa Wada
Programmer(s)Daisuke Yajima
Artist(s)Hanako Oribe
Composer(s)Toshiki Konishi
SeriesPersona
EngineUnity
Platform(s)
ReleaseNovember 17, 2023
Genre(s)Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Persona 5 Tactica[a] is a 2023 tactical role-playing game developed by P-Studio and published by Sega. The game is a spin-off from the Persona series, itself a part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise, and was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 17, 2023.

Persona 5 Tactica takes place concurrently with the events of Persona 5 (2016), depicting the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they are transported to an alternate world overcome with war and oppression, prompting an alliance with a group of freedom fighters known as the Rebel Corps to stage a revolution against the tyrannical Legionnaires. Gameplay will encompass standard conventions of strategy RPGs, including grid-based navigation, a weapon affinity system and turn-based combat, while employing several staple gameplay mechanics from the series such as Persona summoning and fusion, and elemental affinities.

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

See also: Persona (series) § Gameplay
Characters ready to perform a Triple Threat attack

Persona 5 Tactica is a tactical role-playing video game in which the player controls a party of up to three characters on a grid-based map populated by enemy units, who are directly confronted through the initiation of turn-based encounters.[1] The ally units a player may take into battle comprise the central members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, as well the Rebel Corps' leader Erina. Characters can take cover during battle to reduce the amount of damage they take, or block it altogether.[2] At any point while navigating the grid, characters can take actions, or end their turn early to gain a beneficial effect in the next turn.[2] Characters can do close-quarters physical attacks to push enemies around the grid. Characters' gun attacks can hit enemies from afar, and some characters can hit multiple enemies in one shot. The Phantom Thieves can summon their Personas during encounters, enabling them to use a variety of Skills at the cost of Skill Points (SP). Similarly to the battle system in Persona 5, Skills have different elemental affinities, but in Tactica different elements can force enemies to move around the area in different ways.[3] When a character attacks an enemy that is not located in cover, the enemy is knocked down and the character is granted "1 More" turn to select a command.[2] When at least one enemy unit has been knocked down, while being surrounded by ally units in a triangular formation on the grid, the player is prompted to initiate a special "Triple Threat" attack that deals significant damage to all enemies within the triangle.[4]

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]

Premise

During the events of Persona 5 (2016), the Phantom Thieves of Hearts finds themselves suddenly displaced in an alternate, Medieval European-inspired world during a routine meetup at Cafe LeBlanc, ahead of the senior-most members of the team graduating from Shujin Academy. They soon come into contact and form an alliance with Erina, the leader of a group of freedom fighters known as the Rebel Corps, vowing to help her stage a coup and free this world from its authoritarian rule under a new enemy known as the Legionnaires while uncovering the truth of its mysterious origins.[6][7]

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 Devil Survivor (2009) and Devil Survivor 2 (2011). Nomura shared this sentiment, feeling that the characteristic traits and gameplay elements associated with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, such as stealth and observing enemy behavior from vantage points, fit with the genre, providing an example of a map with height differences between enemy and ally units. He explained, "By moving the character directly, you can find locations where it is difficult for you to be attacked or it is easy to coordinate with others. So you will be developing strategies before you know it."[10] Earlier in development prior to the character redesigns being finalized, the team used the models of the Phantom Thieves members from Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth (2019) when prototyping the game before deciding on the art direction. However, despite the similarities in art style to the Persona Q games, character designer Hanako Oribe felt that the decision to retain the characters' original proportions in other appearances while placing more emphasis on exaggerating their hands and feet, resulted in a look more reminiscent of comic books.[11]

Release

Persona 5 Tactica was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 17, 2023. The game also launched on Xbox Game Pass.[12][13] In addition to the standard edition, a Digital Deluxe Edition is available, bundling the base game with in-game extras and immediate access to the game's day-one downloadable content (DLC) chapter, "Repaint Your Heart". On November 8, 2023, the game was accidentally released on the Steam marketplace before being fixed around 20 minutes later, with the game being fully playable for those who downloaded it during this time frame.[14]

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.[15] An additional story scenario titled "Repaint Your Heart" was made available from day one, both as a standalone purchase, and included with the game's Digital Deluxe Edition. This chapter introduces a new narrative featuring returning characters Goro Akechi and Kasumi Yoshizawa from Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal, as well as remixed battle elements.[7][16]

Reception

Persona 5 Tactica received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[25]

Reviewers generally praised the game's themes of rebelling against oppression,[23][24][26] but Polygon and RPGFan considered the execution to be "taking a safe route" and "ring[ing] hollow" respectively.[27][1]

References

  1. ^ Japanese: ペルソナ5 タクティカ, Hepburn: Perusona Faibu Takutika
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  10. ^ "『ペルソナ5 タクティカ』日本メディア最速インタビュー。これはシミュレーションRPGという以上に『ペルソナ5』のバトルにずっと近いと感じた【週刊ファミ通より先行掲載】". Famitsu (in Japanese). June 13, 2023. Archived from the original on June 13, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
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