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).

New/Returning Characters

 * Sumire Yoshizawa/Violet
 * Jose
 * Yume Aomori [Aomori's Monarch]
 * Maya Inoue

Akechi's Episode
P5S Extreme introduced a standalone episode featuring Akechi Goro as the main protagonist, while it is set prior to the event of Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal, this episode will uncovered his past along his first discovering the Metaverse and the first time he committed the Psychotic Breakdown and Mental Shutdown in the first place, leading him to become the Black Mask and the Detective Prince under command of Masayoshi Shido.


 * The game story length approximately can be finished within 20+ hours of gameplay.
 * In this exclusive new episode, players can play as Akechi Goro, along with his expanded and all-new moveset which fits to the gameplay aesthetics of Persona 5 Strikers as an Action RPG.
 * Akechi’s Episode story tone would be darker, it represented the earlier story of Akechi who he lived in cruel, sad, and painful, including how he has nowhere else to go until went for Shido, leading him to manipulate Akechi. It developed his character from being weakling and innocent with a cruel past into maniac and cruel as how it showed his current characterization in P5/P5R following the founding of his own rebellion and the power to cause people to go psychotic thanks to Yaldabaoth.
 * Players who had been a biggest fan of Akechi can see how his story, his action, and how his life leads is something that leads toward suffering inside, and regrets for his crime, along with the other things that fans might notice during story progression.
 * Akechi Goro will not have any Party Members, but his stats is really higher than any other party members in Phantom Thieves, including his initial level would be at Level 50.
 * You can call his two persona, such as Robin-Hood and later as Loki.
 * Call of Chaos would be his important abilities that will cause the Shadow to go to Berserk and spread chaos to other, or just destroy them.
 * Hasegawa, Ichinose, Sumire, Kasumi, Shido, Wakaba, Maruki, Kanoe, Owada, and Sae will appear in this episode in different roles, either as support or minor or cameo. While a new character will appear exclusively in this episode.
 * Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal & Persona 5 Strikers are connected and tied to this episode.
 * The final chapter would take place during his fight against Joker and Phantom Thieves in Shido Palace and it will show what happened to Akechi after that fight.
 * The ending would take place during P5S story, which prior going to Kanoe’s Jail, there would be conversation between Joker, Morganna, and Sophia regarding Joker's promise to Akechi for a rematch as he continues to hold his gauntlet as a promise.
 * Post-Credit Scene took place after Persona 5 Strikers/Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- which introduced future character, Haise Tooru who looks striking resemblance to Akechi Goro as it leads up to Persona 5 Masquerade Strikers.

P5SE Storyline

 * The dialogue lines have been given major improvements, along with new emotional, drama, humor, and fun-trips. This chance can be taken with VAs voicing their respective characters fully.
 * Additional events and scenes exclusively for Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-, along with Monarch flashback are now shown in the cutscenes in order to give a new angle, layer, and new representation of how cruel their past leads to this.
 * In addition scene, with how Sophia can interact with other Phantom Thieves instead just Joker following defeating Jail Monarch.
 * The times and date has been re-adjusted from the original, with this version of the game starting on July 22 instead of July 24.
 * Persona 5 Strikers story has been reworked, along with its continuities which purposely follow the event of Persona 5 Royal and its Third Semester event. There are several other highlights regarding how it impacted the P5S story. Such as:
 * The mentioned characters, callbacks, and references from Persona 5 Royal are now added to the Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-.
 * Sumire Yoshizawa as Violet is now officially a Phantom Thieves in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-.
 * All VAs who voiced 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 Desire Points with items or increase the gained after combat mode.
 * Akechi Goro and Masayoshi Shido would be more mentioned in Persona 5 Strikers. Akechi Goro has become more of a factor to Joker than ever before, while also being an important factor in some way during story progression.
 * Takuto Maruki might not appear in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-, however, he was largely mentioned in this game, as the concept of salvation, desires, and more are somehow linked and remembrance to Maruki during the event of Maruki’s Palace.
 * All-new main story arc, exclusively for Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-, such as:
 * Aomori’s Monarch [Aomori]
 * Sophia Re-Installation [Yokohama]
 * New epilogue ending, set in the winter 2018 where Joker and Morganna return to Tokyo and his friend along with Sumire and Sophie to celebrate his return.
 * For Sumire, she went to Leblanc Cafe with Joker’s friend to celebrate Joker’s return to Tokyo for Winter vacation, while she went to France tomorrow for the World Gymnastic Tournament.
 * Sophia can now travel to another phone as she visits Joker’s phone in the distant range to celebrate his return to Tokyo, same with his friend.
 * Zenkichi is now in Kyoto to spend more time with Akane and tries to reconnect his relationship with her as Father.
 * Platinum Ending Scene which can be unlocked after Players reached 100% completion on any contents in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- which showed a secret ending where Zenkichi witnessed news about the death of Akira Kanoe which was caused by Mental Shutdown.

Summer Trips

 * Additional new items shops in many different areas around Japan which can be found in Kyoto, Sendai, Osaka, Okinawa, Kyoto, Sapporo, Shibuya, and more.
 * New mini-games in various areas are now added. Tycoon Cards are now returned in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- allows them to gain boost two times for BOND level.
 * Players can now customize the RV which depends on the player's taste.
 * Aomori and Yokohama as an additional city includes all-brand new shops, cultural history, sightseeing views, area spots, and more.
 * Customization weapons and gun weapons can now be accessed in Sophia’s Shop, along with new equipment and accessories are now added.
 * All-new dishes and recipe ingredients that you can find, which not just allows you to restore HP & SP and have a secondary effect, it also allows you to strengthen buff status for party members.
 * Party can now comment on your food dishes that he is cooking and different unique reactions and comments would be triggered as your party members try testing your food, which also gains boost toward BOND level.

Combat/Jail

 * Sumire Yoshizawa as Violet returned as a playable character in Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme-
 * The Jail exploration, puzzles, enemies spot, and treasure has been reworked and re-adjusted.
 * Phantom Thieves playability has been rebalanced, and controlling difficulty has been improved and reworked, which allows you to control the playable characters better and more responsive than the original.
 * BOND level gain has been readjusted and increased, allowing you to gain more level experience from BOND faster than the original, while its been rebalanced for each difficulty mode.
 * All-new BOND perks and abilities are added and can be unlocked as you keep progressing to reach the requirement. You can also unlock abilities to increase the level of Technical Rank and Baton Pass Rank.
 * New types of Shadow and Persona, along with adjustment status, and improved status ailments are now based changed from Persona 5 Royal.
 * Disaster Shadow has returned and frequently has more varieties of active skills for physical and magic in real-time which are different from how it previously encountered in Persona 5 Royal.
 * In the base inspiration from Persona 5 Royal’s feature, Will Seed, new optional special items exclusively in Jail are now called as Desire Seed. Unlike the previous iteration, it includes a new hidden areas dungeon in Jail of Monarch exploration, adds a new hard-level shadow and persona, along with new puzzles and challenges.
 * Desire Seed is very special, it allows you to increase your strength and buff your status in a different effect for the playable characters and Persona.
 * While you obtained the Desire Seed, you can also unlock Special abilities to unlock for different playable characters.
 * The Boss who guarded the Desire Seed is very stronger than any other enemies and boss, even more Monarch, so your level needs to reach what it needs to be required in order to defeat them.
 * Grappling Hook returned, it also added new tricks and skills besides being used for Ambush the enemies and went for the higher places.
 * You can now fight against Lavenza during New Game Plus.
 * Baton Pass and Follow Up Attacks can now restore HP and SP, while increasing the buff status while you switch the playable characters manually.
 * All-new Master Arts special moves for Phantom Thieves, which allows you to unlock new moveset and new inputs even using two buttons in the specific orders which allows you to execute new special moves.
 * Futaba/Oracle can now initiate a Showtime attack when you execute Follow-up attacks on Futaba, which allows her to increase damages toward all enemies with her Persona.
 * Technical Damage has been rebalanced and improved based on Persona 5 Royal and now worked on Persona skills.
 * Treasure Demon can now appear inside random Shadow Encounter in real-time, same as how it did in Persona 5 Royal.

Others

 * The improved graphics are now based on Persona 5 Royal. The game runs in 60fps with 4K resolution support for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam (Microsoft Windows).
 * 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 on DualSense controller.
 * Loading times have been reduced.
 * Persona 5 Strikers -Extreme- adds 30 new song tracks to the game, divided into various parts, for 15 song tracks are made exclusively for the main story and another 15 song tracks are made exclusively for Akechi’s Episode.
 * The party members' dialogue portraits would be based on Persona 5 Royal which was completely redrawn with new angles and expression. This feature was also made for Zenkichi, Sophia, Kuon Ichinose, the other Monarch and also for the new characters.
 * Furthermore, many backgrounds and environments from the original game have been given noticeable updates.
 * Many, several dialogue lines from Persona 5 Strikers has been re-recorded in favors for the consistency continuities from Persona 5 Royal and all-new events scenes & story elements that were exclusively for P5SE version. While some scenes that were not voiced in the original Persona 5 Strikers are now fully voiced.
 * Akechi VAs returned to voicing his character for Akechi’s Episode along with the old VAs has been reprised for that role to appear in the exclusive episode.
 * Lip sync during voiced cutscenes is included in the Japanese version.
 * The PlayStation trophies and Steam & Nintendo Achievement are significantly different from the ones in the original game.
 * Merciless difficulty mode can be obtained automatically, without beating the game to reach the New Game Plus.

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.
 * 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.