Persona 5 Rumble

Persona 5 Rumble is a fighting game based on the Atlus series Persona. The game's visuals will be entirely 3D as opposed to Persona 4 Arena's 2D visuals of characters. This game will also mark the first time characters from Persona -Trinity Soul- will crossover as well.

Prologue
Igor senses that time has been tampered with and that Shadows have managed to find their way back to reality and causing violence. He then gets into a run in with a mysterious figure called Loredelis. Loredelis plans to create a entire new era involving to merge reality with world inside the public's heart and people shouldn't rely on special individuals. She then offers Igor a challenge to bring forth Persona users all across time to convince her why she shouldn't alternate time. She then turns their plan as a tournament known as the "Heartbreakers tournament". Igor then calls out his remaining Velvet Room attendants to get their guests to come.

Persona 5 story
Akira finds himself inside the Velvet Room prison. He is approached by Lavenza that reality is being merged with a cognitive world and unknown violence is happening to the public. As Akira agrees to the deal, Lavenza tells him that there other people besides him and his team that uses a Persona and so she decides to give Akira his very first Persona, Arsene as his only Persona in order to keep the balance of the time.

Akira then wakes to reality as he and Morgana are headed back to Tokyo for a holiday visit. As they got off the train they were approached by their friends who was happily reunited. While following them to Yongen-Jaya, Akira notices that an App showed up on his phone. The logo had two knives slashing at each other. Akira wonders if this is a Metaverse app and was curious but then decides to deal with it later.

Later that night as Akira and Morgana set up their room at Leblanc, Akira decides to look at the mysterious app installed on his phone. As he clicks on it, a video is shown where the Phantom Thieves are beating up a bunch of unknown individuals and it promotes them to become champion.

The next day, Akira gathers his friends for such a long time and tells them what happened last night. They believe they might be seen as enemies if they were to come here. It is revealed that everyone else also had the app. They decide to use the app to investigate and much to their surprise, they become Phantom Thieves. They proceed to explore this brand new Metaverse.

Persona 4 story
Yu returns to Inaba for a holiday break and only finds Yosuke and Teddie there and wonders where everyone else went. Yosuke mentions that he hasn't seen Chie or Yukiko for a while assuming that the latter was busy in the Inn. Teddie suddenly gets a strange sense that he has never gotten before coming from a TV. They proceed to check the electrical store in Junes. Upon coming to a empty store, they noticed that the TV is glowing ominously in red and wonders what goes on. On the TV, they see a group of masked individuals and it becomes an advertisement of a fighting tournament and suddenly it shows Chie and Yukiko trapped. The boys act fast and checks if the TV is still accessible. Upon landing on a strange world inside a TV, Yu, Yosuke, and Teddie makes a run and embark on the quest to rescue the girls. Meanwhile Kanji, Naoto, and Rise are lost.

Persona 3 story
Elizabeth makes her long return to the Velvet Room and tells Igor the news about her journey that she manage to find a way to bring Minato back. After the process has finished, Igor made sure Minato was caught up on what happened. Elizabeth tells Minato to stay hidden away from his group until they are ready for the truth about why they were called here.

Elsewhere, S.E.E.S was assigned to helping the people in Shibuya. As they were attending a meeting with Sae Niijima, Aegis received a strange message about beginning navigation. Everything in the groups eyes began to change. The group finds themselves in a stadium.

Persona -trinity soul- story
Igor travels to another dimension to meet up with the Persona-users that exists. He then calls the attention of Shin, Takuro, Megumi, and Kanaru as he explains that they must travel to another world that's different then theirs. Though unsure about dimension travel, Shin agrees and his friends decides to follow as well.

Gameplay
The game retains a few features from Persona 4 Arena. The Personas now have their own life bar rather than using a amount of cards. The Persona will stay when summoned but it is vital that the Persona does not take damage causing a Persona Break to happen. If the Persona gets called back, the bar will heal.

There is also a 2-v-2 option as well. During matches, teams can perform a Baton Pass and All-Out Rush.