Looking Back At - Persona 5 Royal | Remastered Review

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With much thanks to ATLUS for providing me a code of the new PC release for Persona 5 Royal, we'll be looking at the technical differences compared to the 2020 PS4 title, while I also give any updated thoughts to the game, now that two years have passed since its original release.

In this video, I return to Persona 5 Royal, as we do a Persona 5 Royal PC review. Persona 5 Royal was released in 2020, but now we're doing a Persona 5 Royal review 2022. This will also be a Persona 5 Royal retrospective, and we'll even briefly mention the Nintendo Switch. This is my Looking Back At P5R.

[نونيم-يح]

Royal version of persona is what i wish to see from remakes and remasters, its not just more pixels, it not only builds up on the core game it heavily addresses the flaws of the original, from being able to do things at night after dungeons, being able to max out social links in a single playthrough without using guides, it fixes akechi as a character, it dramatically improves mementos and it adds a new incredible story arc with top tier antagonist, it pushes a 9/10 game to a 10/10 GOAT material imo and thats what remasters and remakes should do.

[Fantasygod]

Persona 5 Royal is like the Ocarina of Time for modern gaming everything is great if you just don't mention that water temple part or else you might get a horde of fans at your doorstep but other than that everything is great all around

[nekogirlbeth]

Bought this game today on PS5, got the steelbook sitting next to my PS4 version's steelbook. Absolutely love this game!

[connorharnage]

Barely a year since I first beat P5R and since then, I've beaten it again, beat Persona 1 and the Persona 2 duology. Now here I am again playing P5R on my Xbox One. Good job pulling me back in Atlus

[JadenOmega]

I swear to God people are sleeping on Haru, she can reflect alot of stuff and her gun damage is freaking insane. She even on my first playthrough halfway killed the reaper with one one shot kill. Haru can be an absolute menace with gun damage if I position her right. I never take Haru outta my party because of that. That being said, I love this game. Not as much as Persona 4 mind you, but this game has it's own vibrate charm to keep me coming back. Is the game perfect? No. But then again no game is TRULY perfect but I really do like both the world and the characters in this game. And this game has the best gameplay in my eyes. I'd honestly prefer Persona 4's characters and story and Persona 3's music, but this game is definitely no slouch in those areas.

[hector]

This game really left a mark on me. I am 33 years old now, so my capacity to be blown away is less and less. Finishing this game left me empty, like I lost an important part of my day to day haha. Immediately turned into one of my top 10 games of all time, which only two RPGs have that honour:
Mother 3 and Persona 5.

[Shadow-Morgana]

Personally if you own persona 5 Royale on PlayStation 4 you should get the five edition for free no questions asked

[White_tar]

Thank you for the informative review.

I'm so far into my PS4 version playthrough (on PS5), I really cannot face starting it all over again even though I have Gamepass ultimate and the remastered version is free on my PC.

Maybe when/if I play it through a second time, I will play it on PC again, if it is still on gamepass then, hopefully.

If only I knew this would happen, I would have played other games and played this in the "ultimate" version now.

[VanethReaper]

Got started on this last night via pc gamepass and a region change to new Zealand... God I'm hooked. I forgot my love for the franchise having played persona 4 golden and back, but never got on p5 or p5r before. loving how beautifully CRISP and clean the game looks in 4k with 200% res scale, yeah it's incredibly overkill but.. Wow. Im so very glad I didn't have to finally break down and go get a playstation just to finally play it lol.

[spydersoup]

To be fair, in terms of story, Royal feels like a enhanced version that doesn't want to be a enhanced version due to the amount of backlash from the other enhanced versions of previous got just because of either changed or altered parts of the story or the new character being in moments they weren't in previously, making them seem like they've been shoved into it for no reason. The third semestor isn't really a piece of new story like Golden, it's really an epilogue chapter stitched into the main playthrough and painted over as Golden's new story. Basically, what The Answer in Persona 3 FES was. If they want to save Kasumi's role just for the third semester, I'd say give her the same amount of screen time as, say, Mishima in the main story and have her awakening take place at the start of the story in the third semester. I'm sure you've heard about this plot principle called a Chekov's gun. How it works is if you were to promptly display a certain thing as much in the story, it needs to go off at some point in the story, expectingly in the third act of the story. If it turns out it doesn't go off at all, then why is it there in the first place?

[Sonicstillpoint]

5:05
There are the old PC specs.
5:24
Am I missing something because I didn’t see the specs that were upgraded to.
Great video! There’s so much awesome Persona content on this channel and I love it.

[josetomascamposrobledano]

60 dollar ps5? Even if you have the ps4 100 dollar version? Atlus is distorted!

[Alyce-Donut]

I can't wait to play 3 and 4 for the first time when they come out on switch!

[PKDeviluke]

I am very interested in seeing the mods created for this game.

[TheAceAttorney]

Hey! I'm having a similar issue with a cutscene breaking like you mentioned happened with Sojiro once in your video. It's when I try to turn in Jack Frost to the twin wardens for their first request. Anything more specific than just "fiddling with the buttons" To get it working again? Doesn't seem to be working for me and it happens every time I get there even after multiple restarts.

[ElNeroDiablo]

Got the PS4 Digital Deluxe installed on my PS4 Pro, the PS4 Steelbook sitting on my big ol' CRT TV (for PS2/PS3/Wii/X360), Steam for 12% cheaper thanks to Fanatical waiting to unlock and install, and Gamepass version installed on main system if only the game would run in the background so I know it's working whilst I set up my temp OBS setup (though guess could install it to XB1S and capture it in OBS via Elgato HD60 Pro in main system)...

[Coolboy]

I agree with the difficulty, Atlus should have added a harder mode or have the enemies scale with your personas.

[AlexT]

6:55 I see this as a non issue simply because of how fucking massive Tokyo is as the most populated city in the with with approximately 14 million residents ( 12% of Japan's entire population ), so the Thieves encountering about 100 something assholes if we add all the Mementos missions ( about of the city's population ) didn't bother me

[eventhorizon]

honestly I'm pretty impressed with the performance.
I rarely see FPS dips and when they occur it's along the lines of 105 instead of 120, with rendering scale at 200% @ 1440p.
I do have a somewhat "beefy last-gen" PC with a 5800X and a 3080, but considering this is a console port it is impressive nonetheless.

[stCenturyGuy]

"I think the only thing left to do about Persona 5 is discuss the anime" Famous Last Words right there