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P5X: Into the Phantomverse

I cant wait for the adachi gacha man

I am more interested in the Sea of Souls role in this storyline. The Sea of Souls has not gotten much development since Persona 2 and only gets minor mentions once in a while in every persona game after Persona 2. Most players probably do not even realize what the Sea of Souls is when mentioned in every single persona game after Persona 2. The Sea of Souls was first introduced in Persona 1 and originally took on the form of a vast Sea of Stars with each Star representing a Soul. It is the place where all Souls of the collective unconscious gather. Here in Persona 5 X, the Sea of Souls takes on the form a vast Sea with each aquatic life representing a Soul. It is the place where all Persona/Shadows originate from and the place where the True antagonists created their "stage" for each Persona game plot. The Midnight channel, the Midnight Stage, the Palaces, and etc all were created from the Sea of Souls by these Gods. The place is where Aigis and the rest of SEES team battle against Erebus and where the Gate where Makoto became the Seal for Nyx is located. It also establish the canon lore why the Gacha system exists in this game being that Wonder's connection to the Sea of Souls allow him to Dive into the Sea of Souls to pull out Personas and Phantom Idols but due to how vast the Sea of Souls is Wonder will not know what he pulls out from it.

I wanna see this owl creature and the Tootsie Pop owl fistfight

It appears that P5X is just the latest in a long line of recent multiverse stories, which have been insanely popular lately. Hopefully it's able to successfully distinguish itself.

As a genshin and honkai star rail player, I will say that the artifacts system is the worst part of the games because of the rng on what stats you can get and what stats get increased when levelling up the artifacts. The rng SUCKS. It's even worse in honkai star rail because there's 6 artifact slots rather than the 5 slots in genshin. I realize it's only 1 slot difference, but that's a whole artifact's worth of rng and level up material. However, they do provide a pretty big boost in stats, so there's that I guess. The domains are fine tho cuz it's literally just you go in and fight a few enemies.

So to give some insight on the gear system as someone whose played both genshin and honkai, it is very time consuming as you are time gated by how much you can farm in a day, then you also have to problem of getting good substats and main stats on your gear which makes it even worse, however they do usually provide ways to lessen the grind, same with other games that have gear systems tbh but if this game copies exact same formula then you won’t need to worry about that until you get to a certain level and would need to grind other materials prior to that to build up to being able to get the best “endgame” gears

15:19 HATSUNE MIKU!?!?! jokes aside i love all these characters designs!!!

“the pink lady is cool” XD OF COURSE MY GUY OF COURSE

I hate that my first thought when I heard that P5X has a lot of crossovers is not that I wanted a Persona Character, but me wanting to see Demifiend and Nahobino in the game.

18:27 Kafka

"persona 5 and persona 5 x are colaborating" confirm p5x servers shut down in a year

Also I don't know why P5X soundtrack has to hit so hard

veteran genshin player, yes the *"pity system"* does indeed ultimately matter on how generous the devs are on giving out the currency to pull. A gacha system could be 30 pulls for a guaranty featured character, but that doesn't matter if the free pulls you get is 5 pulls per year... oh wait yeh you could just pay for the character duh... and thats how they make money. In genshin's case, its actually one of the more generous relatively speaking (except for HSR, literally just competing with their own) compared to other gacha games. As a complete F2P player, i never felt like "I NEED TO PULL THIS CHARACTER OR ELSE I GET PUNISHED" since they did a great job balancing the characters so far i.e. there's very little powercreep and its a game geared more towards "pull for who you like" and you can still do its hardest content. *Powercreep* is also something to keep in mind with P5X, since as the game progresses, the game is more likely to make new characters more powerful since thats how most gacha games sell new characters (cause who would want to pull a weaker/not an upgrade character than you already have?). This is something really complex and how genshin handles this is they sell the characters mostly through their character design and story (they just recently released an MV for an upcoming new character, and it's definitely working i.e. trending on twitter as of writing this comment) while also not being "weaker" than older characters going back to the philosophy of "pull for who you like". As for the *artifact system* , it's kinda a double edge sword: it serves as the endgame gameplay loop to make players keep playing the game, but on the other hand its also the most brutal aspect of the game in terms of min-maxing your characters since it relies a lot of RNG (this also ultimately matter on how many RNG elements the "artifacts" have). For example, an "artifact" can get 4 RNG attributes from a pool of 10 different attributes. Out of those 10 attributes only 3 are useful etc. etc. But what if P5X has a massive 30 different attributes and only 3 of those are useful for a specific character. This is just to point out, it also really depends on the game. For genshin, i would say its 'ok' though it has gotten a bit better when version 3.0 was released i.e. you can literally just ignore the "4RNG attributes" and you would still be able to 100% the hardest content of the game. Though it needs the correct characters and of course knowledge. *Stamina system* , to get some materials and "artifacts" to gear up your characters, you do ultimately need to use the "stamina" of the game, i would also say this also ultimately depends on how well the game uses this. "That is so fing stupid why time gate it if it's a single player game???" There are a couple of reasons, one i'm mainly going to discuss is that if you don't have a stamina system, then the whole point of the "artifact system" falls apart. Since people can just endlessly grind to get the perfect 'artifact', then there's really no point adding the artifact system than just wasting people time. After people get the perfect artifact, there's literally no incentive to open the game again since you have nothing to do. An analogy of this is for example, people love burgers and there's no limit on how many burgers we can eat today, so we eat and eat until we get so full that literally you don't want any burgers for the rest of the month. The "stamina system" is there so that we get 1 burger per day. so that tomorrow, we still look forward to that burger since we still haven't enough of it. I know there's actually a study explaining this phenomenon, i believe its "The Demand Curve and Utility" but do correct me if i'm wrong (i'm not an expert in this field). sorry its a wall of text 🤣 just sharing my insights, thoughts, and opinion on the matter.

Hearing they're taking inspiration from Mihoyo is a little scary. The pity system is great but it's also an excuse to let the 5 star rate be extremely low. You basically have to hit the guarantee in order to get anything. Domains and gear are also scary because they've always required an extreme amount of grinding, so much so that even the diehards who think the game is flawless complain about it. The only reason I've stuck with Genshin for so long is because it's really easy to circumvent grinding as long as you purposefully don't upgrade your Adventure Rank, which keeps enemy levels from rising. My characters have been at level 60 for about 3 years now (max is 90) which is about the highest you can get with minimal grinding

16:47 - my eyes straight poppin outta my head from HOW COOL THIS PERSONA LOOKS!! Super glad all your big concerns were addressed and you're feeling pos about this game now! Character growth, we support it!

I think the thing about some stuff that happened in Persona 5 not happening in P5X is probably to do with mementos (Or entire metaverse depending on if they go off P5R or P5) disappearing. I haven't played the game yet because I can't really speak or read Chinese but based off the game play footage I've seen mementos seems to definitely exist. Unless they brought back mementos that's probably the diversion in the story.

I hope to see more of this, this could be really interesting!

Relic systems... not again man. And yes you are correct, it IS exhausting especially without features that allow you to craft pieces with the desired main stats you want. All depends on how they handel that whole thing.

Artifacts and relics suck ass, but who knows maybe they will handle it better. The worst part really is how slow and how RNG reliant it is so depending on how many mainstats and substats they have it could be ok.

i play hoyoverse games and i can confirm the pity system is cool, but as you said yourself, it really does depend on how much one can pull at a given time, either through free rewards or your credit card. the artifact system is hell, especially in genshin where grinding takes significantly more time. using two/four of a set grants a bonus, with the two-piece bonus being a stat raise and the four-piece being the more effect (say, raising attack if you get hit or sacrifice HP through a character's skillset). there's a small chance for each piece to have a different stat, say a raise to crit chance or defence. certain pieces are limited to specific stats with the flower and feather artifacts being limited to only having HP and attack respectively. despite the limitation, the fact that you have too many options for the remaining three artifact types usually means you don't get the stat raise you want or need. along with the main stats, artifacts come with several substats which are randomly raised each time the artifact is levelled up, which allows minmaxxing if you're willing to put in enough time and resources to gamble for the exact substat you want. grinding is not much of an issue in honkai: star rail, a turn-based game, due to it having an auto-battle feature, which usually only helps out when you're not fighting against a serious threat due to the AI not being able to utilize each character well.

Claim your ticket here if you've been rocking with P5X from the jump.

Can you make a tier list ranking the characters designs? Personally, I'm in love with the designs of all the girls, specially Li Yaoling and Kotone Montagne. ❤

Key’s weapon is actually an assassin like dagger the kind you place between your fingers. With a T shaped handle. Not a fist type per say.

As much as I'm looking forward to seeing the casts of the other Persona games appear, I'm really hoping they include the casts of the spin offs too, and maybe even turn some additional characters into Phantom Idols. I've only played the PS5 games (though I'm working my way through P3R), but I absolutely adore Sophia, Zenkichi, and Erina and I'd love to see them again (especially Erina, since we'd get to see her in the traditional art style). And there's a ton of potential for characters like Sae, Hifumi, and Akane from P5S to be able to join the fight. Like seriously, the amount of fanart I've seen of them as Phantom Thieves should speak for itself as to how much people would be down for that. And this is the best place to do it. Again, I can't speak for characters from non-P5 games, but I'm sure there's tons of characters, be they confidants or spin-off exclusives that people would want to see back. And that's not even getting into characters from other Sega franchises. Like you know Yakuza and Sonic are crossing over ASAP Overall, I'm excited for this, and I'm hoping it comes to the west soon... And survives long enough after it comes over to make it worth the localization.

These persona designs dude they went off and cooked so hard on these 🥳

13:27 I'm out here chilling after my workshift, listening, chillin. Then I just hear "flamethrower" and I just straight up screamed "YOOOOO FLAMETHROWE-" before I remembered It could sound bad out of context to anyone outside 💀

12:21 how in the hell did I hear “she fights with MSG” lmao

I understand Johne. Okyann definitely made me more interested too 😍

Ironic enough, I am a Genshin fan and I’m alright with the pity system, it gets difficult but knowing how it works, it’s pretty simple. Basically, once you summon 80 times, you have a higher chance of getting a 5 star character. If you hit the 50/50 (which only works for event banners might I add, aka getting the event character) it resets the pity and you can summon as normal. But if you lose 50/50, your next 5 star after around 80 pulls is guaranteed to be the event character. If artifacts work like genshin in this game, then there are multiple artifact types and a random chance at getting certain attributes as you level up the artifacts. It’s a lot to explain but that’s the general gist. As someone who loves genshin and persona, I’m really excited to play this game once it releases and I’m going to find a way to play it early! :)

Hey johne could you please do a series on tale of arise some time?

I can try my best to explain Genshin and HSR’s gacha for an understanding of P5X. So in Genshin, their guaranteed is at 90. Before that is soft pity, which is at 75, where each wish gives you more of a chance to get the 5 star. The 50/50 system is basically just this: when getting a five star, you can either get the limited character that’s on the banner or a random character from the standard banner. After losing, your next 5 star on the limited banner is guaranteed to be the character on the banner. The artifact system is honestly really important to make your characters stronger. Artifacts are gear that go on your character to improve their stats. In Genshin, the most favorable is CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG, because this is how your characters will deal more damage. There’s also ATK, DEF, HP, etc. if you need anymore information just reply and I’ll answer to the best of my abilities.

are you gonna start to play in the channel apollo justice trilogy?

The only question I have about the gacha rates: does it have rollover pity? If it does, then that makes the game VERY free-to-play friendly. Rollover means that if you don't get the character by the end of the banner, you didn't lose the progress. For example, if character A's banner is up for a few weeks and you do 50 pulls on them but never get a 5 star, does the 50 pulls dissapear or does it rollover to the next character? If there's a rollover, then you are guaranteed to get someone you want eventually, but not having rollover means it is entirely up to chance with no control outisde of saving for months or spending a few hundred bucks. If it is going by Hoyoverse's standards, then it would have rollover and the rollover includes the failed 50/50. That rollover has been a big part of why Hoyoverse'a games have been doing so well, because a lot of other big gacha games don't have that and can requires several hundred pulls before you get the guarentee

So say one wanted to play the Asian release of this game, what is the best way to go about screen translation? I've been testing a few programs and none of them seem all that useful.

Wow, i saw that video at the right moment. I'm currently downloading the game and i've played Genshin impact a lot before. Honestly the pity system isn't that bad if the game gives enough materials to pull for the banners; but the overall system isn't bad. The worst is the domains and artifacts systems. If it's completely like Genshin impact i'm worried. To get the perfect artifacts and materials in domains, you need to farm A LOT. I quitted genshin because i had to build and farm too much for my characters. Even if i'm more invested in Persona, one of my favorite games, with a good story and background and such; unlike genshin. And i know i will farm and still enjoy the game, for getting those cool and pretty characters and build them; i'm scared to get bored later on, like genshin. Even if for genshin it was quick because the story was bad and long.

Him saying you almost feel bad for the shadows in p3 for a while is so true. Once you get past level 15 meaning you have access to all of the elements you just start beating the shit out of them

where you get that footage and interview?

OFC it's not Joker, it's clearly Tatsuya 😂

I love the priest kid and his persona, easily some favorites of mine there. I wasn’t that interested in P5X but it would be cool if they go all out on crossovers and have characters from stuff SMT & all the SMT spin-offs show up

Can’t wait to play it! Super Hyped. It would be nice if you gave Honkai Star Rail a chance even if it seems it’s not to your liking at first glance. It could give you a better understanding of some game mechanics and systems that are implemented into P5X and have some experience from it to know what to expect. But no pressure if you still don’t want to, that’s cool. Always here to watch your vids :D

I do wonder (pun unintended) how the domains will work with the limited time of Persona 5's palaces, will that mechanic just be removed completely?

We don't like farming for artifacts one bit, we're just stuck there

hope the global release is soon

Big Question does pity carryover?

Ok, already see a mistake. The shield aspect on an enemy is not a new mechanic. Atlus did it in Strikers. From the looks of it, the shield mechanic works the same way.

YAY!!! The story being a retelling was the biggest concern I had.

i feel like persona 3's Shadow Operatives would be a better idea for a gecha game, since mitsuru kinda looks for new persona users across thw world

the pink Lady is Kafka... the "mom" of the mc(not really but the community keep said so) the 50/50 i call the 2nd savestages at 80(or 90) you will 100% get a 5* the rate do spike up around 70 so if you get 90 your have anger the gacha god that day. after that if you fail the 50/50 your next 5* is the rate up one... this count toward the next limited banner too. i do prefer it then just the character you got is "rate up" and we all know "rate up is a lie" artifact is a mistake.

honestly? id love it if persona 1/2/3/4 characters get added and we get to see new "rebellion" forms for the main casts and maybe even some old social link characters? id love it if we got to see the older versions of the main cast. adult rise or kanji or yukari would be SO AWESOME to meet.

If we get Persona 3 characters i will start playing this

We were robbed when they slapped that shin megami tensei gacha game at us lmaooo I want THIS and I want the opening song for this game 😭

Love and Deepspace is an otome game that has genshin mechanics, but the only advantage they have over genshin is the pursuit option, basically a skip button. And it stacks. I just hope they have that for Persona X after clearing a domain.

Can you show us how we can play the game, too?

My think is the game will be f2p or not? I mean I usually spend on gachas but still is good to know if is f2p or not

about the pity and the artifact system, i have seen some comments already addressing it but i think extra insight would be helpful anyway the pity works like this, you have a 50/50 chance of getting what you want, if you dont get it, next time it'll be a guarantee, easy to understand, right? the artifact/gear system is a little bit nuanced, you said it sounds exhausting, and to an extent- it really is, but i should elaborate on it, at first you might find it stupid for it to be a totally RNG based way of getting better at the game (which tbh it is) but people make it look way more important than it actually is, as someone who has played both Genshin and Honkai, it is *not difficult* to clear the game and the games endgame harder content with *below "ok/desirable" artifacts* , there is a lot that goes into combat, and even the most "undesirable" stat increases can actually make a difference in your success but not a lot of people actually notice that, grinding for it will only be exhausting if you're looking towards the best artifacts ever, and plus... the game has an auto farm feature, just like Honkai. i'll tell you what- farming in Genshin (a game which *doesnt* have an auto farm) was one of the most unpleasant experiences ive ever had in a game specially when i wasnt getting very lucky in getting the best artifacts, in Honkai? my luck is almost exactly the same, however, i just gotta press like 2 buttons every 5 minutes or so and i keep grinding without effort, the ammount of effort and thought you put into every battle makes it VERY stressfull to do it every single time when you're grinding, that's why i'm simply in love with auto farms and im still grinding daily in Honkai without much thought because atleast i don't have to put any effort into getting good gear. so yeah, p5x isn't much different from everything i saw, so don't worry about it

When is yakuza content coming back

In hoyoverse games, the pity system is essentially: 3 types of banners premium 5☆ characters Premium 5☆ weapons The "standard banner" How it works is you get 2 types of summons, the one which works on premium banners and the ones which work on the standard banner. Each banner type has a seperate pity counter, but they transfer between banners (example: if you pull 10 times on a premium character banner, that will add pity for all premium character banners, but no other type of banner) After (90 in genshin/HSR) pity is reached you are guaranteed a 5☆. When getting a 5☆ on a premium character banner, you have a 50/50 chance to get the featured character, or a non featured character (non featured characters are the only 5☆ characters on standard banner) if you get an non featured character, your next 5 ☆ character on the premium character banner WILL be the featured. Sorry if I explained this horribly 😅 I like this pity system because it means that no matter how unlucky you are, you will always get some premium units, though in genshin its hard to get summons so it can take ages...

Tbh I’m hoping it’s not going to be like dx2 where you can get that one character that is just op and just carries you the entire time but then again this is from a different company

Im impressed you know kamen Rider

Okay I'm actually gonna obsess over this like I did with every other persona game I LOVE THE REO SO MUCH

I actually thought Riddle was a detective since she looked liked female sherlock homes.

There is kind of a pity system in Fire Emblem Heroes now if you pay for the game monthly. Basically every forty pulls you get a free five star pull of your choice from the banner you're drawing off of.

From my experience with Star Rail, I'll be real and just say that all the top tier characters I have have appeared from genuine luck, I've never even gotten to the pity system. I basically just play the game, get given stellar jades for doing stuff, eventually enough can be exchanged for tickets, and if I don't get something in roughly the first 20 pulls I probably just won't get anything. And if it's like Star rail or genshin, certain banner characters just won't be available for a veeeery long time. There's no deliberately trash rank characters, instead the common stuff is essentially equipment. It's kinda impressive how similar this game seems to be with hoyoverse games- spend money or get lucky to get a character, and voila- now you have a bunch of content open to you with this character. Pretty entertaining. Same goes for character design, as far as I know for Star Rail. Not just going gacha women moment, actually having cool designs and then also cool dudes too. I think persona X has already done a better job at Infant Infantry at least.

Pull Yui. You know you want to, Mr. Johne

My one wish for this game is to bring some Tactica characters like Guernica to the game

I hate gear systems so much

So.....what's the name of that art director?

Maybe they'll have Sonic cross over with SMT again. Hell maybe Shadow as well since they're pushing him again.

his persona really do be looking like a kamen rider tho. the wind one from Saber especiially. wish that show was better those designs were awesome.

So do Joker still have the wild card?

As someone who used to play both Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail, the 50/50 gacha mechanics and the artifact/relics system were genuinely the worst game experiences I had ever experienced in my entire life, to the point that after I dropped both game, I genuinely don't want to touch another gacha game ever again, even though I'm still accompanying the games new characters since I really like the designs and watch some playthroughs of them, but accurately playing them, never again.

isnt the whole shield thing already in Strikers?

I only like it for the theme of the velvet room. What the MC is about. (He's depressingly relatable) And your mascot companion. As a free to play, the only thing that would be wasted is my time. (Basically at least a few hours, because I have a requirement for Gachas for me to stay) And in terms of the... Shadow companions? I would say their stories will still be told. But as Side quests or events.

Pink hair lady is Kafka from Honkai Star Rail. I will say as someone who has played Genshin, HSR, and Honkai 3rd Impact, I really hope that this game takes more from HSR than the others. I consider myself to be a fairly lucky person overall, but Genshin and H3I have some of the worst F2P aspects out there. With HSR, there was only one character that I really wanted and tried to get, but could not. Even better i hope that they take FEHs approach. FEH genuinely has the best F2P aspect out of any gacha game i have played, but they constantly power creep the units edit: also HSR makes it so whenever you roll a 5 star unit, it is a 50 percent chance to be the banner unit and 50 percent to be a random 5 star edit 2: the artifact system can be a grind to get the best stats possible, but very rarely will you actually have to worry about getting the best and you can just get good enough

I dont know the name but the guy before the sophia ahh looking robot girl one looks like Baron Van zieks from great ace attorney in his phatom idol attire

P5X with SMT V... imagine Nahobino as an unit

I’ve been playing daily since the launch in China, and I’ve been having a blast. I’ve never been a fan of gacha games really but this one has been really fun. Definitely needs some polish, definitely has a lot of the usual gatcha bullshit to it, but the story is decent and the style is spot on, and im excited to see where it goes in the future

Wind probably will be using lightning spells

I wonder if Midori is actually secretly part of the dev team and her account is one big marketing tool.

Im down to give this a shot when it gets an english release.

Given this is a Gatcha game im not suprise if they collab with Jojo and introduce those characters here and hell they dont need tweak on those as they also got Arcana Motif.

Bruh you were playing The Great Ace Attorney 2 (dude the story was getting better every time). Then you started to juggle P3R and Infinite wealth. Now this??? Bro maybe I have a warped perception of time but it seems like a lot. SMTV Vengeance is coming soon too. You edit your vids yourself too right? But I dunno. 😅

This was Great and I forgot to comment 👌

The key event that never happen is igor been kidnap, in this game igor never been kidnap by holy grail

The summoning animations need work though

When Morgana said the Phantom Thieves were gonna be a full fledged organization at the start of P5 he wasn't lying, Jesus Christ.

So is there any word at all that this game will EVENTUALLY hit global or are we better off just playing off the Korean versions

P5X is a parallel world version to Persona 5

Live service...I still get flashbacks to Dragon Quest X

So I see the same character okyann ,brought us both back to p5x, what drove me away was the gacha system being mentioned, im so burnt out on gachas if its not genshin and honkai its dragon ball and some of the others like azure lane or nikkie and grand blu.

Hello I heard robot girls where?

the artifact system in genshin is not something genshin players really like tho

I looked up the opening roster of units for the game and I'm surprised it has literally everyone from P5 except Sumire and Zenkichi~ Zenkichi is my fav P5 character and I know it's a gacha game so he could come later, but that's the issue~ There's no guarantee~ Plus I think they will prioritize other Persona mainline characters~ So I'm going to hold off on playing the game~

Mate. HSR :). Its great, but time consuming. I hope P5X will offer a little more to F2P with this many characters being announced. Love your videos. I will def. play this stuff once coming out. I have been waiting patiently for months now...

I just want to know if nits coming to america.

Riddle escaped from Made in Abyss xD

Purse Owner 5 X: Wallet and Budget

is no one gonna talk about how toshia has the anti-weezer gun