Persona 5 is getting a new spinoff on mobile and PC

It’s not the adjacent mainline introduction successful the series, but Atlus did announced a caller Persona crippled today. It’s called Persona 5: The Phantom X, and it’s a spinoff that’s launching connected some mobile and PC connected June 26th.

As the sanction implies, The Phantom X is acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic 2017’s Persona 5, and volition diagnostic a caller main quality starring a caller set of Phantom Thieves. This communicative takes spot successful “a mysterious Tokyo wherever desires person been lost.” The operation of The Phantom X sounds a batch similar accepted Persona, arsenic players volition acquisition mean precocious schoolhouse beingness during the day, earlier heading disconnected to research dungeons astatine night. There’s besides turn-based combat and a “synergy system” wherever players tin signifier adjacent ties with NPCs successful the game.

There are besides multiplayer elements, including guilds which let “players to interact with 1 different in-game.” From the sounds of it, The Phantom X is an effort to blend the single-player RPGs the franchise is known for with live-service mobile games designed to support players coming back. It’s hard to accidental close present however good those 2 sides volition gel together; it’s besides not wide astatine the infinitesimal if the crippled volition beryllium free-to-play. Hopefully it inactive has curry.

Given it’s been astir a decennary since Persona 5 launched, Atlus releasing different spinoff volition apt beryllium a disappointment to immoderate fans expecting immoderate motion of beingness from Persona 6 (at slightest Metaphor: ReFantazio turned retired well). Then again, The Phantom X astatine slightest looks the part, and mightiness beryllium a bully mode to capable successful the clip earlier the adjacent large release.