Persona 5 will arrive on the Playstation 4
Atlus’s Persona 5 will be released on the Playstation 4 sometime in 2015. Originally, the role playing game was announced as a Playstation 3 exclusive, but, at Sony’s pre-Tokyo game show presentation, a new trailer was released and the developer announced the arrival of the Persona game on the Playstation 4.
Persona is a critically acclaimed role playing games series that started in 1996. Persona 5 was first mentioned in 2009, as one of hte potential games to be announced for a Playstation 3 release. The title was mentioned again in 2010, when Atlus announced that the team was preparing to begin working on the next “Persona”. In 2011, Atlus announced that most of their key people behind the past Persona games will return to work on this title. Furthermore, they announced that the game will be built using a new, in-house engine. In November 24 2013, during an Atlus event in Japan, Persona 5 was officialy announced through a cryptic teaser trailer. In February 2014, Atlus announced that the game will be released in Engish for the North American public and, now, through the Sony presentation, the game’s port to the next-gen console was revealed.
The Persona series consists of two anime and film adaptations and eight games: six main games and two re-designs of the Playstation 2 game “Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3”. Persona 2, the second title in the series, was released as two different installments, “Innoncent Sin”, released in 1999 and “Eternal Punishment”, released in 2000. While “Eternal Punishment” was also launched in the USA, “Innocent Sin” only got to the States in 2011, on the Playstation Portable. Persona 3 represented a change in the game’s design as it introduced simulation elements. Playes would control a high school student who attends classes at day, has the possiblity to do certain activities after classes, such as seing movie or hanging out with a classmate. The game’s combat takes place at night. Characters can summon their inner Persona by using a device called “Evoker”. The next game in the series, Persona 4, features similar gameplay.
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