According to financial reports from Koei Tecmo, Atlus’s Dynasty Warriors-style spinoff game Persona 5 Scramble is getting a US release.
A recent financial report from Koei Tecmo indicates that Persona 5 Scramble is getting a US release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Persona 5 Scramble is a spinoff of Persona 5, the most recent game in Atlus’s famous RPG franchise. Scramble takes the characters from Persona 5 and puts them in a crossover with Koei Tecmo’s Dynasty Warriors series, featuring hack and slash gameplay and hoards of small, easily slaughtered enemies.
Persona 5 Scramble was released in Japan only in February of this year. Reviews were favorable; Famitsu gave it 36/40. The game flew under the radar due to its lack of a worldwide release and its release around the same time as Persona 5 Royal, a substantially enhanced version of the original Persona 5 RPG from 2016. Royal released in October 2019 in Japan and got a worldwide release in March this year, to broad acclaim. In the shadow of that immense success, Persona 5 Scramble went all but forgotten.
But not for long. Koei Tecmo, which collaborated with Atlus to develop Persona 5 Scramble, released its financial reports (thanks, Persona Central) for April, May, and June, and these reports included a section about planned future releases. Persona 5 Scramble was clearly listed in this section, marked for a release on PS4 and Switch in the West; this is the first time either developer has officially acknowledged the game being released for US audiences. A release date was not given for the project; presumably a more official announcement will follow shortly that might shed more information on this project.
Atlus has a long history of creating strange spinoffs and crossovers with their IPs. The past three Persona games have all had dancing spinoffs. Persona 4 and Persona 5 even had a crossover with each other in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is a crossover between the developer’s Shin Megami Tensei series and Nintendo’s famous Fire Emblem franchise. Koei Tecmo is no stranger to crossovers either, having implemented their trademark hack and slash combat in games featuring The Legend of Zelda and Fire Emblem characters. A game like Persona 5 Scramble looks like a shoe-in for both developers.
Persona 5 Scramble is a much different experience from what fans of the series are used to. While the turn-based system from the original Persona 5 experience remains, it’s combined with the chaotic large-scale combat system from Dynasty Warriors, which should make for a particularly unique experience that could turn some people off to the game. But fans of Persona 5‘s endearing characters and its complicated and bizarre story should still find a lot to love about Persona 5 Scramble whenever it releases in the United States.
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