I consumed 136 hours in this game, and I am completely unrepentant of any minute I have wasted it, but I hope to lose my memory, in order to live this beautiful experience again.

Imagine with me that we are back to the old high school days. Do you remember your first day? The awe you were feeling at that time. How would you like to meet new friends to spend the days with them in boring conversations, playing sports, reading books and hobbies.
Maybe you were doing some side work to earn some cash, or move your heart to fall in love with a girl from your same school.

Now, I want you to forget all of that, and replace it with a school experience as well, but it's better, fun, and more exciting. An experience that will touch your mind and heart from the inside, here is a review of the Persona 5 game.

When you see the name for the first time, you may think that it is a new part of a long game series, you have not had the opportunity to try it yet, and you do not have enough time to try all parts of the series, and link its different stories, but I love to assure you.
Although the series with many and varied versions completes its twentieth year with the release of this new part, but this topic has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the game, the game makers have done a great job of making this part completely suitable for all new players, taking into account the details that fans love The original series as well.

The story of the game

The story of the game is very special, and you will not find an analogy in any other game.

The game follows the character of the silent student most of the time in a high school in modern city of Tokyo, which was recently transferred to it due to some problems encountered. In his new school as well as his new home, he will be subjected to more harassment, and become an outcast society.
This led to a meeting of people like him, marginalized from the community around them, who in turn awakened the spirit of rebellion within them, against society and their always-surrendering characters of harassment, and together they determined that their role was to save a society full of oppressed and oppressed like them.

More people join you throughout the game on your journey to defend the oppressed, and these will either be your classmates or people you meet during the journey, and the common factor between you is the spirit of rebellion, which gives you the power to control your persona inside you, and go to new, different secret worlds In order to achieve this goal.

The inspiration behind the game industry

I want to talk a little bit about the inspiration that led Persona 5 to come out into the light, as this game contains a lot of different and complex ideas, but it was presented in an easy and simple way that draws you more and more into the game world from the inside, so you never want to come out.

The Persona Games reflect the work of famous physician and psychoanalyst Karl Jung, and use his theories as a basis for exploring the different psychological issues of school students who are the game's heroes, and it evolves to explore other social, political, and ethical issues affecting the whole community, not just one individual.

The main characteristic of the Persona series is the ability of his characters to summon the power of their “hidden characters” or their “persona” to help them fight in battle, but what is persona really? It is described within the story of the game that it is a mask that gives players the ability to face adversity, but this is literally within the events of the game, with a mask appearing on the face of each hero when the hidden character inside him wakes up for the first time.

The term "Persona" comes from Young, who also describes him as "a type of masks", and says we use this mask to meet society and the expectations this community imposes on us. Most of us at one time or another introduce ourselves to our friends, teachers, or families in some way, it is not the true face of us, and it does not reflect our true hidden feelings inside us. Just a mask that we wear in order to deal with a certain type of person, or to endure some difficult days that go by.

But the interesting thing about this story is that persona only appears when the hero abandons the mask that he walks in front of people, and he assimilates his true personality that he is supposed to have, as if it were a hidden message from the game makers, to be always your nature, and to live for yourself, Not for the sake of others and their expectations.

Our hero in the game has the ability to reincarnate many characters, and wear many masks, from all different myths and times, because he is the hero and his character varies with the passage of days and new friends he gets acquainted with, and the life experiences he acquires from them with the passage of days. These experiences help the hero to face the adversity that meets him in all aspects of his normal life, as well as his other secret life that no one knows.

Playing system

If the story of the game did not arouse your curiosity, then definitely the gameplay will impress you, make you want to stop what you were doing or plan to do, and immediately go to buy a copy of this great game.

The game contains a lot of individual systems that overlap together in a smooth and beautiful way, the brilliance of the Persona series has always been the glory of how these individual systems fit together.

Starting with the traditional daily life, which includes a lot of activities such as studying, playing video games, meeting friends, reading books and magazines, working and going on trips, but the game plays a wonderful role in making you excited every day to improve your social relationships because the strength of these relationships It can help you in the secret world, which represents the other half of the game, the half that we are used to which is fighting and defeating enemies, your personal relationships can give you more strength, or some distinct new abilities in this new world, until sometimes you can Defeat enemies with one blow this.

Combat system

Basically fighting is as good as it was in any other part of the series, if not the best. Each of the heroes takes turns fighting the enemies, your role can either be shot from your pistol, use a normal attack, use of persona and his special abilities, or escape.

The topic may seem easy at first, but it becomes more difficult with the passage of time, because the enemies increase in strength and cunning, but as I mentioned before our main hero can use many of our persona at one time, which allows him to adapt to what the situation requires. Simply put, this means using different attacks, and exploring the strengths and weaknesses of all elements of the battle.

This multiplicity of choices adds some kind of strategic thinking and excitement throughout the game. There are also many other advantages, such as: that you can get any enemy you face to join your ranks, by discussing with him and answering his questions, just like the famous Pokemon series.

Acoustics and visuals

Have you ever mentioned how charming this game is! She managed to take the series to another new level in terms of design, interactive menus, sounds and tones among others.

I am not exaggerating if I say that this series is completely dependent on flashy visuals and loud noises to convey feelings to the player, it is enough that in one part you summon persona by firing a gun into your head!

Powerful jazz has made the game more realistic than previous Persona games. It was exactly identical to where you went and the psychological state of the heroes, as music designer Shoji Meguro, the lead designer for the series, combined music inside and outside the fighting in a single flow to give you the feeling that you live one continuous work despite the different songs in each.
I have never dreamed of hearing the same repeat songs even though I've played the game for over 100 hours straight.

Animation, menus, facial expressions, everything goes the same way without any interruption or slowdown in the game.

The character of anime drawing mixes with 3D graphics greatly, and all the characters are distinct in drawing, whether heroes, enemies or monsters, all of them have a special character that does not repeat, even if the followers of the series who played the previous parts and I among them will notice a great similarity between some of the main characters, and between Characters of the previous parts, and perhaps this is the only point that I admire in this game, which is writing the characters of the heroes.

The phoneme distribution of heroes was also good in both Japanese and English, especially the Japanese language in which a selection of the best-known voice performers among anime viewers was chosen.

Persona 5 was nominated for many awards

The most important of which are the best music awards, the best painting, the best directing, and also were competing strongly for the best game of 2017 with the games of Zelda and Mario, and they continue to win prizes until more than a year after their release, and there is strong competition between them and Chrono Trigger on The center of the best Japanese RPG games in history. It is also worth noting that the game got an anime series that is being shown now in the spring season, and ATLUS stated that the anime will carry surprises for those who finished the game before, and it will not be a replica of it, and this was confirmed to us already after the release of the first episode, and there were many scenes New ones that have not been in the game before, with many other additions that have been a huge hit among fans.

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