Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-

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Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-, alternatively known as P5SE and called Persona 5: Scramble -Phantom 'Extreme' Strikers- in Japan, is an enhanced rerelease of Persona 5 Strikers, which available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft Windows (Steam).

Akechi's Episode
P5S Extreme introduced a brand-new event scenario which focused on Akechi Goro and set way prior to the events of Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal which uncovered the story of how he first discovered the metaverse and how exactly he be able to commit the Psychotic Breakdown in the first place which leads him to become the Black Mask and the Detective Prince.


 * The game story length can approximately finished within 25+ Hours of gameplay.
 * In this new episode, players can play as Akechi Goro.
 * Tone of Akechi's Episode is darker and sadder which how his tragic and murderous life has lead him to serve Shido in order to get revenge on him, while it is also how it leads to Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal events.
 * Players who have been a biggest fan of Goro Akechi can sympathize his action and feel bad of how Shido and his life had treated him as such in a very painful and cruel way. Seeing how his character developed from him being weakling and innocent with cruel past, into how he discovered his rebellion, turned into cruel and psychopath, but still has heart inside of him. Fans much shows how he truly regret what happened to people he had killed, even though it was a right thing to do.
 * Akechi Goro will have no Party Members, but his stats is really higher and his initial level would be at Lv. 50.
 * He will have two persona, one for Robin Hood and the other one is Loki.
 * Call of Chaos would be the important abilities that will cause the Shadow goes to Berserk.
 * He will have new and expanded moveset which fits to the gameplay of Persona 5 Strikers.
 * Hasegawa, Kasumi, Sumire, Shido, and Wakaba will appear in this episode, along with new characters.
 * Mid-Credit Scene and Post-Credit Scene might leads up to the events of Persona 5 Strikers sequel which now titled as Persona 5 Masquerade Strikers.

Storyline

 * Increase a new drama, emotional, humor, and fun trips through the story progression and character story progression throughout the game.
 * Additional new events and cutscenes exclusively for Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-.
 * The data and times has been re-adjusted from the original.
 * The story of Persona 5 Strikers receives a several reworked and continuities which purposely adds ties and connection to Persona 5 Royal along with characters like Sumire Yoshizawa, Takuto Maruki, and Jose. There's a several highlights regarding how it impacted to the P5S, such as:
 * The mentioned characters, callbacks, and referenced from Persona 5 Royal are now added to the Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-.
 * Storyline will now follows the continuities from Persona 5 Royal and Third Semester Event.
 * Sumire Yoshizawa as Violet is now join as a part of Phantom Thieves.
 * All VAs who voicing the respective characters are now re-recorded several dialogues lines to fit the continuities event of P5R, including reworked the dialogues lines in favor for Sumire existing joining with the Phantom Thieves for the Road Trip, also additional new events.
 * Maruki is also has impact influence of how Cognitive Pscience meant to be, along with Wakaba and Shido.
 * Jose will appear in Jail, you can exchange with Desire Points with items or increased the gained after combat mode.
 * Akechi Goro and Masayoshi Shido would be more mentioned in Persona 5 Strikers. Akechi Goro has become more factor to Joker than ever before, while also has important factor in some of way during story progression.
 * Maruki might not appear in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-, however, he was largely mentioned in this game, as the first one who research the cognitive Pscience.
 * Aomori is a new city which Phantom Thieves will travel prior to they arrived in Sapporo, along with a new jail and Monarch emerges, shown focus on Sumire Yoshizawa's development.
 * New epilogue which set in the winter 2018 where Joker and Morganna return to the Tokyo and Joker's friend who celebrate for his return, while Sumire is now currently on going for Gymnastic World Championship.

Summer Trip

 * Additional new items shops in many different areas around Japan, like Kyoto, Sendai, Osaka, Okinawa, Sapporo, Shibuya, and more.
 * New mini-games in various areas are now added to the game.
 * Players can now customize the RV in which depends on player's taste toward it's customization.
 * Aomori is a new additional city added to the game, along with a new shops, new culturalistic, and much more.
 * Tycoon Card is now added for Phantom Thieves to play as a Mini-Games.

Phantom Life/Jail

 * The Jail exploration, puzzles, enemies spot, and treasure has been reworked and rebalanced.
 * Phantom Thieves Playability has been rebalance its difficulty and has been improved that allows you to smoothly play a different character without stress during combat.
 * Sumire Yoshizawa as Violet are now returned as a Playable Character in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-.
 * BOND level gained has been made an adjustment and increased allows you to gain the value of BOND faster than the original.
 * New types of Shadow and Persona, along with the adjustment is now based changed from Persona 5 Royal.
 * Disaster Shadow has returned and frequently has more varieties active attacks and skills than how it previously encountered in Persona 5 Royal.
 * In the based inspiration from Persona 5 Royal's Will Seed, a new optional special items exclusively in Jail are now called as Desire Seed, and unlike the previous iteration that it includes a special new challenges areas which are hidden within Jail of Monarch exploration, which includes a new hard shadow and persona, also new challenges added.
 * Desire Seed is very special, it allows you powering up your strength or buffing your status, while also gained special effects for the playable characters and Persona. It also allows Phantom Thieves obtained a special abilities to unlocked. The Boss who guarded Desire Seed are very stronger so you need an requirement level in order to defeat them.
 * Grappling hook has returned, and with adds a several new unique tricks for ambush enemies and higher places.
 * You can now fight Lavenza in Jail during New Game Plus.
 * Technical Damage has been rebalanced and improved in based from Persona 5 Royal, and now worked on persona skills.
 * Treasure Demons can now appear inside random Shadow Encounters, same as in Persona 5 Royal.

Other

 * The improved graphics are now based on Persona 5 Royal. The game runs in 60fps with 4K support for PlayStation 5.
 * Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- includes PlayStation 5-specific enhancements, including dynamic 4K resolution (as opposed to 1800p from the backwards-compatible port); haptic feedback and adaptive triggers in the DualSense controller.
 * Reduce load times.
 * Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- adds 25 new song tracks to the game, which 10 song tracks made exclusively for the main story and 15 song tracks are made exclusively for Akechi's Episode.
 * The party members' dialogue portraits would based on Persona 5 Royal which completely been redrawn, and new angles & expression. This also made for Zenkichi, Sophia, Kuon Ichinose, and characters from Persona 5 Strikers.
 * Some scenes that were not voiced in the original Persona 5 Strikers are now fully voiced.
 * The PlayStation trophies and Steam & Nintendo Achievement are significantly different than the ones in the original game.
 * Merciless difficulty mode can be obtained automatically, without beating the game to reached the New Game Plus.
 * The party members' dialogue portraits have been completely redrawn, and new angles and expressions have been added which shares resemblance dialogue portraits from Persona 5 Royal, while adds some new completely different drawn for the characters.
 * Furthermore, many backgrounds and environments from the original game have been given noticeable updates.
 * Lip sync during voiced cutscenes is included in the Japanese version.
 * Some scenes that were not voiced in the original Persona 5 Strikers are now fully voiced.

Sequel
See Persona 5 Masquerade Strikers

Trivia

 * Extreme titles on Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- is totally referenced to enhanced and expansion version of Koei Temco Game, Dynasty Warriors 7: Extreme Legend. However the Legend title has been removed.
 * Unlike any other enhanced version of Persona mainline title series, Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- doesn't relied on adding a never-seen before characters, but adding the existing characters like Sumire Yoshizawa and Jose, alongside with re-adjusting the story to follow more closely continuities from Persona 5 Royal events.
 * This would be the first enhanced game titles to have a additional episode since Persona 2 Eternal Punishment on Playstation Portable exclusive. Akechi's episode would be not just gate of how it connected with the event of original P5, P5R and P5S, but also leads toward P5S sequel, Persona 5 Masquerade Strikers.