Video: We Put Persona 5 Royal On Switch Through Its Paces

It's simply nice having one of the all-time great rpgs finally available on my favorite platform. I've been holding off on playing Strikers until I played through Royal.

Dear god i am SO EXCITED. I commend Atlus and Sega for their excellent port job, P5 deserved it <3

Friday is going to be filled with all kinds of jazzy tunes. bum pa puh.....da da puh.....

Persona 5 is among the very best games ever made.

Just when I thought I could go back to my backlog, guess it'll have to wait cause this game looks fantastic!

I'm still on the fence whether to get this on Switch or Steam Deck.

The PC version can get a stable 40FPS, but I don't actually think higher FPS will matter as much for a game like this. I also don't imagine the graphical difference to be all that noticable. I have Persona 4 on Steam already, so it would be good to keep the collection on one console, but then I also have P5 Strikers only for Switch.

What a 1st world dilemma lol

@Gs69 I believe they're bringing P3 and P4 to Switch in 2023, so not much longer!

Only thing I've seen that really looks bad is that the swirling glow effect on stuff like treasures and safe room doors looks very choppy, but that's almost entirely irrelevant anyway.

@Gs69 Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable are both out on Switch on January 19th.

@Mr_Gamecube I guess that's where I get stuck with these decisions, I have a launch model Switch so the battery really isn't that great these days and the the screen is more or less the same as Steam Deck, just smaller.

If I had an OLED, I'd likely just get the Switch version without thinking about it. I just can't justify upgrading to OLED this late in the game when it feels like the next Nintendo console should be announced pretty soon here.

It's not a very demanding game, so I think Steam Deck may have better battery life than my old Switch, and I suppose the larger screen can't hurt either. Either way, I expect to play this one a lot in handheld mode.

Really can’t wait to play this game on Xbox series S available on gamepass thanks Microsoft!

I still can’t get over the thing where Joker can volunteer to be sexually abused by multiple adult women, including his teacher and his doctor.

I loved every other part of the game but the portrayal of statutory rape leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. If Joker was a girl and the the adult “love interests” were men we would never accept this.

(And to preempt the poorly-informed pedant who I know is going to “correct” me about the age of consent in Japan, Tokyo has a higher age of consent than the national one.)

@riki_sidekicks I mean, you control Joker though. You can pursue non-romantic paths with both. I understand you think it shouldn’t be in the game at all, but I don’t think its depiction is causing real-world harm. It’s teen boy fantasy stuff.

@Magician
I completely forgot strikers was a thing, I just grabbed it on vinted thanks to you, so thankyou very much! x

Ouch, that's painful to look at

@Astral-Grain I hear this…
I’m eye-ing up refurbished OLED models on Nintendo’s store but it’s such an awkward time to upgrade knowing there should be an upgrade coming soon.

Between P5 and Nier, these two ports are insanely good. I’m loving my play through of Nier—IMPRESSIVE!
Cannot wait to start P5 finally!

SMT mainline fan here. I haven’t played this spinoff since Revelations Persona and Persona 2 (both entries). I might give this a shot on Game Pass.