The curtain was pulled back a couple months ago on the mysteriousPersona 5: The Royal, which turned out to be exactly what many assumed. This rerelease, remake, or whatever you want to call it, will be loaded with new features, new characters, and is launching in Japan later this year. Here in the West, we weren’t sure when exactly this beauty would be dubbed and hitting our shores, but now Atlus has given us a definite answer, and it’s sooner than many thought.
E3 2019 is in full swing, and gaming companies are using this time to release new content, announce new titles, and dish on all the exciting details that we gamers crave. Atlus has chosen this time to release a new trailer forPersona 5: The Royalfor western audiences. It is same asthe first Japanese trailerreleased in April, but now features the returning cast of English voice actors. The footage, however, is still in Japanese.
Anyone who analyzed the trailer the first go around won’t learn anything new here, except for what appears at the finish. Tacked on to the end is confirmation thatPersona 5: The Royalwill release in the West and Asia in 2020.
WhenPersona 5: The Royalfirst made an appearance, it was announced asPersona 5 R, which added mystery to the title. But that’s not the only enigmatic promotion Atlus had up its sleeve. The company was also teasingPersona 5 S, which many assumed was short for “Switch”, and that a port ofPersona 5would be announced for the console soon. This assumption was close, but not quite accurate.
Turns out it is a title for the Switch, but it’s an all-new one calledPersona 5Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, an action RPG that was announced through a short teaser trailer. It has aDynasty Warriorsfeel to the gameplay, which is a very different style fans are used. There’s no release date set yet, so those interested may have to wait a while.
Persona 5: The Royalis scheduled to release on June 13, 2025 in Japan and some time in 2020 in the West and Asia for PS4.
