Persona 5 Masquerade Strikers

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Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- or other name for Japanese version as Persona 5 SCRAMBLE 2 -Phantom of Masquerade- is a direct-sequel to Persona 5 Strikers, developed by Omega Force and P-Studio, published by ATLUS and SEGA.

Available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam (Microsoft Windows).

Synopsis
Several months following the Jail incident...

Joker and his friend from Phantom Thieves of Heart were arrested, not by the Public Security from Japan, but from international under the name of Union Security System.

They were being accused for Changing hearts of Adults around the world in abusive way, causing the Psychotic Breakdown and Mental Shutdown events to occurred, responsible by the group who using the same name as Joker's group as Phantom Thieves of Heart. Because of this, they were being threatened to be treated as the most international wanted criminal for their action they didn't committed.

Terada Suou, the chief leader of the Union Security System has offered them a chance to prove their innocence, by tasking them to Re-change the hearts of the adults in correct ways and capture against the criminal who impersonating their groups name and their activities, due to how they have a same abilities as Akechi Goro for using the power to abuse the changes of hearts of corrupt adults, even means leading to their death.

By travelling around the world, their tasked would be even more difficult than how they preciously encounter their challenges in the past, and Joker's tasked to avoid the bringing another ruin would be considered much difficult at this point... this would be a biggest, highest stakes, and very crucial mission for the Phantom Thieves.

A new battle, a new adventure, a new mission, and the battle between Phantom Thieves vs Phantom Thieves, begins!!.....

Story Arc (World Place)

 * Japan [Ryuji Sakamoto's Arc]
 * Korean [Ann Takamaki's Arc]
 * Egypt [Makoto Nijima's Arc]
 * Africa [Haise Tooru's Arc -Part 1-]
 * France [Sumire Yoshizawa's Arc]
 * Italy [Yusuke Kitagawa's Arc]
 * Hawaii [Haru Okumura's Arc]
 * Australia [Zenkichi Hasegawa's Arc]
 * Alaska [Sophia's Arc]
 * Brazil [Morgana's Arc]
 * Chinese [Haise Tooru's Arc -Part 2-]
 * America [Phantom Thieves vs Phantom Thieves Arc]
 * Yakushima Island [INTERMission Arc]
 * Japan (Final). [Final Game Arc]

Gameplay
The gameplay in Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- is still an Action RPG. However, there’s substantial changes to the characters and the system which have been made from Persona 5 Strikers while incorporating and implementing the Persona 5 Royal elements system in order to give greater improvements and new experience which gives new feelings to the previous game.

Most notable change is how the Calendar date system has been removed which has given more freedom for Joker and his friend to travel around the world without worrying about the limitation of time and date. While a new sequel will greatly improve and recreate action-adventure and action RPG into its fullest potential, while continuously incorporating the elements from Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal, which also gave back few elements that were never even added in the Persona 5 Strikers.

While during Travelling Trip, which shows how the protagonist can shop from locals, but this time it’s from an international region with items corresponding to the region they’re in, and buying equipment and items from Sophie as usual. A new setting place, MEMENTOS is now returned with a very different aspects from P5/P5R which Phantom Thieves tasked which is not about the Changing People’s Heart, but to restore People’s Heart to it’s rightful take from it's abuse, due to criminal group methods of changing heart had caused a Mental Shutdown and Psychotic Breakdown.

As the gameplay combat system is still a mixture between Musou/Warriors, although the combat system elements has greatly improves and recreates in order to bringing its full potential as an Action RPG and Action-Adventure in a very Persona likeness, while there’s also a major changes toward battle system, with expanding the BOND system abilities, and while new elements allows players to learn a several new moves, and combo to player’s liking, increased from five to twelve new moves and new abilities of how players can connect their attacks and special moves with their persona’s skills. While the elements from Persona 5 Royal have returned, such as Technical & Baton Pass Rank, Showtime, Will Seed, Third Awakening Persona, Challenge Battle, Fusion Alarms, and Disaster Shadow.

The Thieves' Den has returned, but this time would be a new Phantom Thieves' Bases during traveling around the world, featuring the elements from PERSONA 5 Royal, along with new elements and mini-games added. Players need to progress the story in order to unlock new features in Thieves' den. Jose and Maruki will return, allowing players to upgrade Mementos rewards and exchanging items.

Changes from Persona 5 Strikers

 * Summer Trips/Travelling Trips
 * MEMENTOS (Prev. Jail)
 * Others

Characters

 * Phantom Thieves of Heart
 * Playable Character
 * Protagonist/Joker
 * Morgana/Mona
 * Ryuji Sakamoto/Skull
 * Ann Takamaki/Panther
 * Yusuke Kitagawa/Fox
 * Makoto Nijima/Queen
 * Futaba Sakura/Oracle
 * Haru Okumura/Noir
 * Haise Tooru/Feather
 * Akechi Goro/Crow
 * Terada Souo/King
 * Sumire Yoshizawa/Violet
 * Sophia/Sophie
 * Zenkichi Hasegawa/Wolf
 * Non-Playable Character
 * Takuto Maruki/Rook
 * Jose
 * Yuuki Mishima
 * Phantom Thieves of Heart [Imposter]
 * Playable Characters
 * Non-Playable Characters
 * Supporting Characters
 * Spoiler Characters/Surprising Characters

Tidbits

 * Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- or known a Persona 5 SCRAMBLE 2 -Phantom Masquerade- is a direct-sequel to Persona 5 Strikers/Persona 5 SCRAMBLE -Phantom Strikers-. Although it is sequel, this game is also considered to be the biggest major upgrade version from it's predecessor, along with it's purpose to fully utilize the Action RPG in a maximum potential, even the gameplay is based on Musou/Warriors game.
 * In additional notes of the game elements from Persona 5 Royal are now incorporated to this game.
 * The game elements and contents are three times bigger than Persona 5 Strikers, along with it's major improvements in order to expand the experience of traveling around the world, along with exploration and combat system which now been largely expanded as well, along with the size of the areas are bigger than before, but has many varieties to enjoy.
 * Calendar and date time system is now completely absent from this game, in order to utilize more freedom to explore, although times and date can be mentioned as the story keep progressing.
 * As the Persona 5 Strikers is about Joker and his friend traveling around Japan for summer in a fun way, in the Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade-, Joker and his friend travelling around the world in force way, due to their purpose to clear their name from it's accusation.
 * Unlike Persona 5 Strikers which the story length is 45+ hours long, in Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- story length would be over 70+ hours long, which indicates that the story length in the strikers sequel is three times bigger than it's predecessor.
 * The tones of Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- returns to the roots of Persona 5 where its darker than how it would represented in Persona 5 Strikers, and players should expect plot twist, turning points, and unexpected plot progression that would become surprise for anyone who had played it.
 * The story will also connected with Persona 5 Royal as well.
 * The story would not be about changing the hearts of adults, but fighting to restore hearts of adults who were being abusively changing hearts by the imposter group who using the name of Phantom Thieves of Heart, which that leads committing the events of Psychotic Breakdown and Mental Shutdown. While this also the battle between the Real Phantom Thieves vs the Fake Phantom Thieves, but calling them good or evil is not even simple as it is.
 * the Fake Phantom Thieves possess the power of rebellion and persona-user, same as the real phantom thieves and their goal is same as the real one, to changing the hearts of corrupt adults, but their methods are totally different, abusive, and aggressive, possessing the power same as Akechi Goro, which caused the corrupted adults who are being targeted were killed due to it's effect, thus leads to Psychotic Breakdown and Mental Shutdown. Their ideals are different from the real one, who would been better for them to eliminated the corrupted adults by abusive changing hearts, instead allows them to make a second chance to atone their crime.
 * However, as it said above, it's not easy to call them good or evil, nor even their action can be considered as good or evil either, they were most complicated groups that the real phantom thieves had encounter.
 * Each members of Real and Fake Phantom Thieves both had a same backgrounds, abilities, and quirkiness, both groups are victims from oppression that were caused by an adults (can be same or different), however, their ideals stance are very different from each other, where the real one purpose for changing hearts is to restoring the corrupted hearts of adults and allowing them to have a second chance to atone their sins, where as the fake one purpose is changing hearts by it's abusiveness, and believing it would be better if the corrupted adults died, even it means for sake saving those who were hurts by the corrupt adults or someone who really precious to them, even means risking their lives to become a murderer. Because fake phantom thief's past are very worst than the real one.
 * Two different ideals between two groups is the main factor to this story, and how they can deliver justice in a very different methods and ways, but there's always a consequences of the choices they make in times. The real phantom thieves wanting to show the fake one about what's truly justice here, but it's not that simple to handle it.
 * One most main factor of this game story is how it also focused on Haise Tooru 's character development in Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- although Joker and his friend recognize him as Akechi Goro very well, but it lies with problems they had with him. Following their last met with Akechi in Shido's palace, which they thought he was death, was survived without any memories of his past, which caused him amnesia. As Haise Tooru, his personality is completely opposite from Akechi's real personality, and different when he was an ace detective. As much as Joker and his friend welcome him to the group, this somehow might received a mixed feelings from Haru and Futaba, due to he was responsible for the ones they loved died due to mental shutdown, which Haise/Akechi didn't aware about his past due to his memory loss.
 * His story is about how he, whom he thought himself as just a normal student don't know if he can actually be fitting in the groups with his current personality he has, not knowing or aware his past memories and his past crimes still stuck within him. In the progression of the story sees, how Haise/Akechi has his honesty personality, willing to protect and helping phantom thieves even means risking his life. But sometimes he was being unaccepted by Haru and Futaba whose he being reminded them about the cruel past of what he had done to them.
 * As Haise Tooru, players can see a lot a new moments in the times of weirdness, humor, and somehow craziness happened in unexpected times, but he was very easy to understand and get along with it. His passionate hobby for Neo Featherman has lead him memorize all the poses that they had in a very significant weird way.
 * Continuing progresses at the end, as he learn the truth about his past and his crimes, the tones shifted into darker and how he himself as Haise might blaming himself for what he has done during his time as Akechi Goro, something he cannot forgive himself, but he will find his redemption and accepting his past and his past self to move forward beyond, and atone his sins, but his great price of his action are much greater to handle, which seems that will continuing hunting him.
 * Characters from Persona 5 Royal, like Sumire Yoshizawa, Takuto Maruki, and Jose returned and has their roles on the story. While Sumire is also caught up in the incident with fake Phantom Thieves who targeting her instructor who deemed accused as an corrupted adults who destroying her dream that caused her sister died, which same as how Sumire had felt in different way. As following after her story arc, she decided to postpone her training into hiatus and rejoin with Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
 * As for Takuto Maruki, he will learn the truth about the day of the tragic incidents that involves the massacre of Rumi's family, that leads Maruki created Cognitive Pscience project.
 * There's a lot a new surprise characters and surprise areas will be revealed, as the player will continuing on progressing the story. Some of the past characters from past Persona main titles might going to appear in this game.
 * There are several new endings that has a different outcomes, which compared from Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal.
 * There would be three-story act in Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- which the first one is focusing on travelling the world to re-change hearts of adults and battling against the Imposter of Phantom Thieves of Heart, for the second act focus on delve deeper and turning points of the story which all pieces plots from Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Strikers are coming together, and lastly for the final act, focus final decisive battle between Joker and the mastermind behind strings of the events of this game, while the connection with few lores and plotlines from the past mainline of Persona game.
 * Major character death is possible and they always need to prepare for the outcomes, although it's not a Phantom Thieves of Heart Group.
 * Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- combat system is considered as the "biggest major improvements from Persona 5 Strikers", as how it utilize action RPG combat toward maximize potential, while didn't lose it's identity between Musou/Warriors style and Persona Game style, while it purposely to make everything to look more real-time than how it was in P5S. Boss battle will also look more dynamic in real-time and very flows between real-time scene and combat battle gameplay.
 * The playable characters from Persona 5 Strikers receives a major improvements, adjustment, fine-tuning, and new changes, along with added a new combo moveset and persona skills. While a new playable characters like Sumire, Haise/Akechi, and remnants of Fake Phantom Thieves members of characters will received all-new moveset which fits to Action RPG and Musou style gameplay.
 * You can now attacking the enemies with your combo moveset while simultaneously selecting your Persona Skills in order to combine your attacks against the enemies together. With incorporation elements from Persona 5 Royal in order to expand the game combat and exploration experience.
 * As there would be a downloadable content such as for music BGM, persona skills, and legacy costume, it also includes the additional story mode DLC in order to expand the roams of the story that connected to the Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade-.

Special Edition
A 15.300 yen Limited Edition called Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- Treasure Golden Box includes following the additional content, such as:


 * Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- art book
 * Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- original soundtrack
 * Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- downloadable content pack
 * Behind scene of Making Persona 5 Strikers and Persona 5 Strikers -Masquerade- Blu-ray movie.
 * A 350mm x 900 mm hand towel
 * Special Illustrated Box.
 * Phantom Thieves of Hearts special key visual illustration.