Persona 5 Royal New Screens Showcase New Personas, Third Semester

Aug 16, 2019 at 08:00am EDT
Persona 5 Royal

A new batch of screenshots has been released today for Persona 5 Royal, showing more of the new content included in the new release.

The new screenshots, which can be found below, showcase the new Personas of Morgana, Makoto, Futaba, and Haru as well as the reworked Akechi Confidant events, the third semester, a brand new palace, new Mementos elements and more.

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Persona 5 Royal is going to include, alongside the new content that has been showcased in today's new screenshots, some brand new combat mechanics which expand on Baton Touch

  • Baton Touch ranks have been introduced.
  • Leveling ranks increases the offensive and beneficial effects of the Baton Touch.
  • Make full use of skills that cannot be inherently learned by equipping accessories that grant the use of skills.
  • Characteristics have been added to each persona in Persona 5 Royal with attributes such as SP consumption for skills decreased, skill damage increased, etc.
  • A new cooperative technique called “Show Time” has been introduced.
  • “Show Time” is a special performance where teammates combine their strength. As their bonds deepen, they will begin to produce new techniques.
  • Makoto Niijima and Haru Okumura’s “Show Time” is a cooperation skill based around female professional wrestling.

Persona 5 Royal launches exclusively on PlayStation 4 next year in North America and Europe. The game launches later this year in Japan.

About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.

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