Update: Find a more complete version of this week’s Famitsu report here.
Original: Famitsu this week has new details on Persona 5 following its gameplay trailer debut last Thursday.
The main character is a second year student who moves to the big city during spring. He lives with friends of his parents at the coffee shop they run. That said, the game takes place in urban Japan, across areas such as Shibuya.
The protagonist has a problem of some sort that, if not faced down, could spell big trouble in the future. The scene in the trailer where he appears to be a prisoner is a “mental prison,” so to speak.
The dungeon shown off in the trailer isn’t randomly generated. Such major places in the storyline are designed to play up the burglary motif and have special gimmicks. But that doesn’t mean randomly generated content is gone from the game altogether.
While a Social Link option seemed to be missing from the game’s main menu in last week’s trailer, a Social Link-like system is seemingly in the works (perhaps the “Cooperation” option?).
As far as Personas go, the protagonist’s first Persona is called Arsene (a subtle nod). The sound characters make when summoning Personas is no longer a “ka!” but rather a “buchi!”
Persona 5 is due out for PlayStation 4 and PS3 later this year.
Thanks, Hachima Kikou.