Persona® 5 Strikers

I see a lot of people saying that they fell off of this game early and just couldn't get into it. I had a similar experience. But after looking up some beginner tips and taking my time to really learn the way the game wants to be played, I ended up having an absolute blast with it. Fun story and characters, and the combat is super satisfying once you get the hang of it. If you bought this game and shelved it, you gotta give it another chance. I tried to play this game like your standard Warriors experience, but that's not this game. Here is my advice for anyone that's struggling to really dig into this game: -Positioning is huge. You can usually get away with just hacking and slashing in musou games, but not here. You can't just soak damage and keep swinging unless you're over-leveled. -The Persona summon menu halts combat entirely. You can use this to take a minute and think about what you're doing. -Combos follow the standard musou formula of X number of light attacks followed by a heavy. Every party member has certain combo finishers that give a free cast of a Persona skill. Learn these combos. The free casts are weaker than using the skill from the summon menu, but you can spam them endlessly. Joker can switch Personas, but his free-cast combos are always the same. The skill that's cast for free is unique to each Persona, so make sure you familiarize yourself with what their free-casts are when you get a new Persona that you're going to use. -Unlike the mainline Persona games, this game only advances time with specific story events. Get used to exiting and re-entering the jails (dungeons) to replenish everyone's HP and SP, as well as usually restocking shops. There is no cost to doing so. -This one you'll pick up on a lot quicker, but if you haven't touched the game yet this might be good to know out of the gate. The combat initiation is somewhere between Persona and Musou (like much of this game); you engage an overworld unit like Persona 5, which initiates combat. You don't necessarily do the fighting in the overworld. Rather, the part of the map you're in becomes sectioned off into an arena and the full encounter begins spawning. -If an enemy is too far away or in a difficult position to ambush, you can shoot them from a distance and initiate combat without risking the enemy initiating first and having advantage.