![]() ![]() You’ll need to counter her weaknesses, use environmental baubles to attack and watch out for high-powered swipes that can spell doom for your team in an instant. Here, she takes the form of a giant, warped rabbit with stitches in her cheeks and clawed hands. The final confrontation with Alice is more like a traditional boss battle, but like the rest of her Jail it’s incredibly unsettling. It’s a sickly sweetness and unsettlingly creepy that makes Alice and her world hard to forget.Ĭonquering these enemies requires mixing musou combat and puzzle solving, with various switches and levers leading you further through the candy-coated labyrinth. Street corners are filled with lollipops and candy, unopened presents, vague melted chocolate shapes. You’ll need to master these techniques and discover more about your environment as you heard towards harder fights.Īlice’s world is a neon homage to the strangeness of Alice in Wonderland, and it makes for a totally gorgeous opening Jail. The need for tactics also makes battles feel far more compelling, as does the ability to use a skateboard to attack. While it certainly riffs from games like Dynasty Warriors, the gameplay here is incredibly refreshing. It’s far more nuanced than your typical musou game, and it mixes in a lot of the strategy you’ll find in typical Persona games. There’s even an option to pause gameplay to unleash more powerful attacks and study your enemy’s major weaknesses. You can swap between basic attacks, high-powered Persona blasts or terrain-based takedowns. ![]() ![]() That means rather than turn-based gameplay, combat takes place on an open plane where low-powered enemies continuously spawn until you defeat them all. Image: Persona 5 StrikersĪs mentioned, it’s a musou game. The only major differences stem from the game’s excellent new combat system. The action remains the same, as does the loveable cast of characters. This go around, you’ll be exploring ‘Jails’ rather than ‘Palaces’ but it’s just a fancy, surface-level name change. The premise here is largely the same: evil deeds are running rampant, and the Phantom Thieves must change the hearts of evildoers to save the world from darkness. But even this was enough to see just how well Strikers pulls off the Persona 5 charm. For the purposes of this preview, I’m only able to talk about the game’s first Jail. ![]()
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