Persona 5 Vanilla and Royal Differences - Major Changes

[@Screenments]

PART 2 (Persona 5 Vanilla and Royal Differences - Prologue/Kamoshida Arc): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYu1laJ6d6-MgZo So, let me correct a few small errors made in this video. 3:55 - Here I state that the models in Persona 5 Royal have been ripped from Dancing. The source is an article from Inverse but I've also seen the Megami Tensei Wiki and others state similar things. However, this claim has since been disputed by some knowledgeable people in the community. Apparently, Royal uses the same models as Vanilla Persona 5, but the textures have been enhanced. 5:55 - I made an error here and claimed you only have to get Maruki to Rank 8 manually, and Rank 9&10 happen automatically. This is incorrect, you have to get Maruki to Rank 9 manually, and Rank 10 will happen automatically. 13:40 - Savage Shadows are not a new addition to Persona 5 Royal and existed in Vanilla Persona 5. They do seem to appear more commonly in Royal however. I apologize for all of these errors. And no, this series is not cancelled but has been on the backburner for quite a while, however, with Persona 5 Royal getting a recent port to all platforms I feel now would be the perfect time to continue the series, so I plan to get it started soon. Although, I also have Randomizer to upload as well so give me time.

[@jeremiahevans6346]

It's completely fine thank you for making this video.

[@AnimePigeon]

Any update on Vanilla vs Royal? Did you ever actually do the video on the Kamoshida Arc?

[@trefields6726]

Do you keep progress from persona 5 when you shift to royal?

[@CodyBeezy2]

Is it still coming?

[@Joker3180Z]

Nope The Dancing Models are used in Royal

[@pauljackson1944]

Major difference: Gun ammo is replenished after every fight so you can use your gun more often.

[@Inamichan]

I initially started vanilla and decided to play royal and this change made me so happy!

[@BeWaReJay]

Wow I’m guessing you had to stack on consumables just to replenish guns… must’ve sucked

[@Inamichan]

@@BeWaReJay no you only could reload by leaving the metaverse.

[@BeWaReJay]

@@Inamichan Rip the early methods of farming money and xp at kamoshidas palace using the gun weakness then

[@Inamichan]

@@BeWaReJay I can’t believe people actually played the game to completion without the update. Playing the update was game changing (pun intended).

[@Galvinize03]

Another good change I think is worth mentioning is that in P5R, your ammo for your guns reload after every fight. This encourages you to use your guns more and a Huge quality of life upgrade in my books cause in Vanilla P5 you couldn't reload until you left the palace or used a very rare item.

[@theghosttm8245]

I loved this change

[@onemirrionyen]

I'm not a fan of this change since I felt like the guns were a resource to conserve that you shouldn't have been wasting, it makes parts of the game in royal easier since you essentially have no consequences to going guns blazing every fight

[@loganbigmo]

@@onemirrionyen The only 'consequence' being enemies that repel guns. P5R, I just use the gun we get from Iwai since it has High Shock. Use that for Technical then All Out Attack. Rinse & repeat.

[@byakko2121]

No more ammo refills :D

[@claraclenky9843]

@@onemirrionyen having ryuji shoot only like 5 times per palace run was such a hassle i basically used only Ann’s for targeting weaknesses due to its high ammo

[@adamtideman4953]

This is very interesting for someone like me who played Royal but never played the vanilla version. With the exception of Kasumi I never knew what content was added in Royal and what was in the base game all along.

[@SebiTheHunter]

I actually thougt Kasumi was in the base game when I first played Royal so I was confused when I talked about the intro with someone who only played vanilla

[@zacharycannaday6075]

Royal is just the same enough that new players never notice the changes, but people who play the base game notice all of them, and love all of them

[@vovazagach1781]

@@zacharycannaday6075 What people are you talking about? Royal is a peace of shit because of the changes in the plot.

[@BananaDangoGreyrat]

@@vovazagach1781 No

[@Tidemkeit]

@@vovazagach1781 Where? This changes turned a good game into a modern classic, and also, they remade Akechi into an actual character.

[@josueravena3464]

There's also sadly a story telling mechanic in the will seed but was scraped, but some people found due to a bit of hacking and was left in the coding. It is essentially a way for the player to convey each time you get a will seed, you get to see the perspective of the palace holder and their desires getting distorted, and collecting all the will seeds, you get a scene where the moment when their palaces began to manifest and after that the Palace ruler feels like someone was going through their palace, they're slowly aware of your presence. The ones that are revealed in Kamoshida and Madarame, since those are the ones found in the code. Theirs even that early part in the P5R trailer was scrapped

[@abelg9053]

OHHH Why was that scrapped? It sounds so incredible!

[@mariustan9275]

​@@abelg9053 Must have taken longer, but that sounds so cool! We get to see Maruki getting distorted desires with time but it would have been cool to see like Kamoshida on a podium getting a golden medal and seeing the power egtting to his head, or Madarame seeing Yosuke's mother seizure and take the "Sayuri". Where do you see this scrapped stuff?

[@phantomjoo]

You see takemi walking in the backstreets on your way to sakura’s house

[@youssefsaleh7186]

You can see multiple future characters Joker meets in the background such as you can see Haru when you are walking to school

[@bluebay1031]

@@youssefsaleh7186 That was one thing that was disappointing about the vanilla game. I always love when RPGs add background hints of future characters early on. P5 did it a lot with events, but not so much with the characters until maybe a week or two before you meet them in-game

[@hyldrklein451]

Its funny how you notice them all as soon as you start your NG+. You even see Akechi and Sae walk by (in shibuya iirc) on the way to school some time before kamoshida palace.

[@isaiahnaegiVODs]

Another one I remember You see Maruki walking down the stairs after you take down Kamoshida (Which Maruki actually mentions later on)

[@wickedeyegabe]

I bought p5r when it was on sale for 55% off. Best purchase I've made in awhile. I already had p5 for free with the ps plus collection on ps5 so I got a taste for the game and decided to upgrade. I recommend everyone else to get royal if they can. Lots of quality of life changes. Especially with the changes to guns.

[@Aigis31]

What's changed with the guns?

[@BuIlDaLiBlE]

@@Aigis31 The ammo isn't limited to one palace infiltration anymore, so every time you start a fight with the full magazine for all characters.

[@hilvystewy7298]

Imma buy it too

[@sursangeet2593]

I like that merciless mode actually gives you additional money & experience(1.2 as a number figure)

[@RebekahAntis]

I love the voice acting in this game. Confidently can say it’s the best voice acting in any video game that I’ve played!

[@elijahbruno2814]

God Of War: Ragnarok: Is this a joke to you?

[@phantom-X2086]

Persona 5 and NEO The World Ends With You has some of the best voice acting I've heard in video games. The VAs are very expressive and give their all into their roles.

[@butterschunkmcdonalds5333]

Agreed, The voice acting was amazing, But Disco Elysium: Final Cut is honestly the best voice acting in any game I've played by ALOT. Masterpiece, Just like Persona 5.

[@FlyinTonite]

Royal was really good but it still wasn't perfect. Kasumi was admittedly pretty tacked on and the third arc was a little too short with the big twist they were living in a different reality not really being explored just like shooed away after a handful of (unvoiced) cutscenes. Plus the final boss was interesting but the final form was a glorified cutscene as well. I felt we easily could've had one more palace (Sumire's) before the final one given a lot of the dates in the third arc you don't even get to play. Those gripes aside it was still an excellent game overall with a bunch of added scenes to freshen up the main game, I was surprised how much they added tbh, with a cool new area and Mementos was actually sort of fun to explore. The Will Seeds made one shotting Kamoshida's Palace so much easier and made exploring Palaces a bit more interesting.

[@grammysworld5449]

I played 10 hours of P5 and saw Royal o. Sale and instantly bought it.. The refill of the gun alone sold me at first.. made the game so much easier

[@Brayden608]

So glad I checked this video, I didn't know I had to raise up Maruki's confidant to access the new palace

[@Kagetora-]

Yeah, it's the only missable palace in the game

[@RappingNinja]

Fantastic video, very interesting, well voiced and edited, you got me hyped to watch the whole series of---- oh. There never were any more videos. 😢

[@Screenments]

They will come one day. I have a few other things I want to finish first. Admittedly shouldn't have started this as early as I did

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I know about p5t and p5s but dancing in the starlight has eluded me so far, looks fun as hell!

[@ninjaydes]

Thanks. I really thought I was hallucinating when Morgana stopped telling me to sleep.

[@bgdlc9591]

Vanilla not having grappling hook makes so much sense now since I was confused with some guides/tutorials teaching you how to avoid the shadows after you defeat archangel in the first palace

[@dogman6687]

Did you ever continue this series? Im interested in knowing more

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Thanks for the straight forward and clear video!

[@Skull_Corn]

I liked the scenes without voice acting, because my friends and I playing together would make up funny voices for them. Ryuji was from the Bronx, akechi was Russian, except when in shadowy evil guy outfit he was batman. Haru was toad from Mario. That will be missing from our royal play through with the extra voices.

[@Screenments]

There's a setting in the options menu of the game to turn off the voices and have the game voiceless if you want, you can toggle it whenever you want as well. The setting is called "Dialogue Voices"

[@Skull_Corn]

@@Screenments oh shit really? Dope.

[@MarySsk]

I bought Persona5 Strikers first because it was in sale, I didn't know anything about Persona at all, I just saw a short let's play that I left in the middle of Madarame palace because I wanted to try it by myself. When I bought P5 strikers, I thought it was a remake of P5 Royal, I was so happy because I finally could play the game I wanted to play for 2 years, then I realized that the game wasn't the same has the let's play I saw, then I searched and it was a sequel, I was so sad at that point (I tried to erase all the boys and girls I saw in the beginning of strikers of my mind after that). I waited until last Christmas, my dad made me choose a game I wanted and I said to him "Persona 5 royal". It's been 2 months now playing non stop, I really liked it. I'm going to try all the other Persona games if I can! I just need to finish Persona5 royal and strikers, lol.

[@noahwitte6023]

12:46 is Ryuji drunk?

[@dunkbuscusgaming7016]

I'm curious are you still working on this series? As I just came across this video and saw it was made a year ago and can't find any other videos in the series.

[@sw201444]

So you keep stating “later in this series” but this is the only video I can find in said series None of the other video titles seem to relate to it

[@lol-ih1tl]

Persona 5 Royal is like what third versions were for Pokemon

[@GG1315]

Fun fact persona 5 strikers has similar gameplay to the warriors games i.e dynasty warriors, fire emblem warriors and hyrule warriors, now I'm gonna give you guys three guesses as to why

[@someonewhospams0w0inchat16]

Because its made by the same developers who made those games bro

[@izanagiforsmite4365]

(Semi- spoilers) Yesterday I beat persona 4 golden, I loved the game and teared up at the end, that being said Royal is still my favorite single player game experience I've had yet, I was one of the few Akechi fans in the original because of the voice acting, in Royal I had both Akechi and Sumi on my team at all times because it felt correct to me and it made the finale so much better in my opinion. The ending while it felt a tad bit off made me actually cry, no joke! P.S. Savage shadows were in the original, not disaster shadows those were Royal but savage were in the original

[@claraclenky9843]

Persona 4 was my first persona game so I hold it as my fav but I never finished p4g so I tried playing but my computer is ass and can’t handle it :(

[@hyldrklein451]

I hated akechi in vanilla. He felt superficial and somewhat shallow. But royal changed my views of him entirely and I really do like him now. Oh and the truth about him in the end of royal made me cry. I guess it didn't really sink in what happened to him in vanilla or I just didn't care enough to feel anything for him then.

[@Pduarte79]

You also need Kasumi to be ranked 5 to unlock the new dungeon.

[@fierytigergaming8112]

not quite, you need her at Rank 5 to unlock the second part of her confidant

[@Pduarte79]

@@fierytigergaming8112 To unlock the new dungeon too, besides the Maruki social link. Lol

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

nope, it’s only maruki at least that’s what i found out after i *fucking missed out on a whole 30 more hours of the game because the game doesn’t tell you that you need to raise these confidants to access it to begin with*

[@Pduarte79]

@@yourehereforthatarentyou She makes sense too, since, Spoilers..... She and Maruki are important for the final semester part. Until rank 5 she's Kasumi, after that she's Sumire. I had to use notes for that. And Okumura boss fight is more 💩🤬 in Royal, for me was, a close call. Neither I was expecting the spam robots.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

@@Pduarte79 ik, but she isn’t required to unlock the third semester

[@Dragonk116]

Holy freck that's a lot of changes

[@fightnight14]

It's finally coming to the Switch! It's time

[@T0b3]

You sound like that diabetes kid from south park

[@ilovethesmelloffire]

Deadass

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Never played billiards, I should tbh

[@jeremiahr3615]

I didn't know that Persona 5 has 3 versions. The first release, vanilla and royal.

[@thedashingbullet607]

Man I just bought royal for 25 physically off of amazon. I have the ps plus collection on ps5 for getting me into the franchise as a whole bought strikers immediately after finishing 5, 4 golden came next then 3 portable (and then watched all of the answer) then I dabbled in the dancing games then 4 arena and now I'm getting royal (1 and 2 are on the list I'm not ignoring them although I was tempted just for the persona franchise started with 3 meme)

[@NoPunchline]

very good video lad

[@Lolleman255]

Damn i only played royal and that grapple hook area at kamoshida's palace looked totally different lol

[@positiveproductions6699]

So does Atlas do this with all their persona games or is it just the popular releases? Because if that's the case I might just wait until persona 6 extended version or whatever they call it comes out then just get the regular game because it seems like you get more content with this version Am I right?

[@orpheus0108]

I hate that royal changed the battle theme for ambush attacks... that's like 90% of the fights with no "last surprise". I never saw it coming :(

[@kinja9816]

Damn I have like 30 hrs in vanilla I should have saw this video before playing the vanilla

[@xCaptainChloex]

You missed automatic baton pass when gaining a new ally + bonus effects and the collecting hunt in mementos. Maybe it's just my opinion, but I think the video does include spoilers 😅 it's okay though^•^ I still enjoyed it!

[@SSlash]

Maybe some spoilers for the main game I guess sure, but as far as WHAT all goes on in the third semester and who is doing what, he danced around it pretty well, but honestly he coulda just said there’s a new palace and not show anything about it I guess

[@TheReptain]

you forgot something this game gets finally a german, spanish, and italian language option !!!

[@TheAandJStudio]

Fun fact. They actually did move to another engine for royals new rerelease.

[@Kagetora-]

Oh really? Which engine did they move to? I didn't buy the re-release of P5R

[@AlAensland]

@@Kagetora- The Engine that used in Sonic Unleashed 2008.

[@DoctorTheo]

I fucked up by not paying too much attention to the date, and ended up completely locking myself out of the third semester. Oh well, I guess there's always NG+

[@someonewhospams0w0inchat16]

Its good for you to go with ng+ ngl, you'll get to appreciate the key differences between whats different from vanilla and royal when you meet sae during christmas eve.

[@timlamiam]

The traits are so OP lol. my favorite is always null all status effects lol

[@forcelightningcable9639]

There’s no Akechi in the thumbnail wtf I thought it was him

[@Kn_nick]

I would like to note that when playing persona 5 royal on Xbox with gamepass or on pc with gamepass includes all persona 5 and persona 5 royal exclusive dlc for free Even the paid royal dlc is free in gamepass

[@hologasm]

vanilla is the better way to play it the first time. then sure, go ahead and play royal. compare and contrast. im sorry but... you should only get to be happy on christmas when you know what it's like to be sad af on christmas

[@notjefflee]

Did this series continue? Can't find the other videos mentioned

[@Screenments]

Not yet. With the new port out I will return to it soon

[@HarakiriRock]

The normal battle theme was also changed. I think I prefer the vanilla one. It would be nice to have multiples though because the music gets really old when you're grinding.

[@dcb99filmz]

I keep swapping into outfits from previous Persona games for the different battle themes

[@shmalts1]

I loved P5 a lot and wasn’t sure about the changes. I got p5r on the switch mostly just expecting a 1:1 game but holy shit p5r is so amazing. I haven’t even gotten to the third semester but the amount of small changes they made stack so well. New scenes, new characters, QoL improvements, better way to spend time, better technical damage. All of these thing build together to make it such a satisfying and well written game. I cannot wait to get the 3rd semester!!!

[@byrontheusurper6505]

You're telling me the okumura bossfight was WORSE IN THE ORIGINAL? HOW? IT IS THE WORST PART OF THE GAME!

[@alexterieur8813]

Played Vanilla 2 times the year i bought it. Now waiting for p5R to drop to 20$ CND$ to play it once again! Next time i'll just wait for the upgraded version lol

[@yutubnyaDimi]

That maruki confidant tho.... I knew from playing P3fes and P4g there will be a "true" ending and you need to fulfil certain conditions. But P5r is the most frustating to me coz now i need to load from older save, like far back around 10 - 15 hrs gameplay :(

[@sparrow6190]

P5 on RPCS3 w00t, there are some mods you can use that add some royal features though

[@MTH3h3l0l]

My friend let me borrow this game and I had to take a break because I kept staying up super late playing

[@mightbeanerd]

Wait excuse me getting trophies gets you themes for the home screen? How do you get those besides just getting the trophies?

[@Screenments]

Getting trophies is the only way i believe. It's possible you MAY be able to buy them with a Japanese PSN account but I'm not sure.

[@mightbeanerd]

@@Screenments I mean like, I got all the trophies, what else do I have to do to get them after I've done that?

[@imGreeddyy]

@@mightbeanerd you have to sign up for PlayStation newsletter and they should send you a coupon code within 14 days after unlocking some of the trophies. If it’s been over 14 days after you got trophies, contact PlayStation via live chat and they’ll give you a coupon code to redeem.

[@Myran9902]

@@Screenments Do you need to get all the trophies?

[@teagunlinger]

Baton pass automatically unlocked. Thank God!!

[@ShizzThe69kinG]

Pretty much if you’re fresh to playing P5 might as well get Royal. Yeah it’s pricey, but my bang for the bucks I suppose. But by now I think the price is now reduced. I got the steelbook version for like 70+ bucks. And that’s after a while it was released. But sides mentioned in the vid. At this point why would you not want Royal? More content and better visual question. And unless you’re still playing PS3, then might as well go the mile. Tbh; I see no reason to play Vanilla when I played Royal. Had fun and enjoyed about a 3rd of the whole. And I say a 3rd is there was some times I found it teeth clinching irking. Not in a bad way!

[@sithmaster4305]

Vanilla arguably has a much more cohesive narrative. It ended where it needed to, and the third semester doesn't add in as much as people think it does. Royal has better interactions but only because its an extension of the original. The OG is very much still worth playing.

[@sayu2644]

Man, for me, just the fact that Morgana asks you to sleep less often is a huge improvement.

[@fruitymcflood8198]

Ehhh its still pretty bad. I never liked how you couldn't do anything after getting out the meatverse

[@mrcat4508]

@@fruitymcflood8198 I hate that it feels like your character doesn't have his own thoughts and can't do anything without Morgana when Mona disappears for a few days Joker doesn't do anything, in persona 4 when the story wasn't letting you do anything else, yu thought to himself that it was time to sleep making it feel like he was his own person and not just doing what his friends wanted him to

[@therandowanderer]

Honestly tho, it was much easier to max social stats in Royal thanks to that

[@snraijuu]

Right? He irritated the hell outta me.

[@irisblink]

@@fruitymcflood8198 the meatverse

[@oreo3605]

In vanilla if the palace security level got to 100% it would kick you out the palace, but in royal just more enemies spawn

[@yaboiskinnymalone836]

Oh that’s even better that makes it more worth it for grinding

[@Redpoppy80]

Yeah, you are not overly punished for sucking at stealth.

[@ErenE2706]

In the introduction during royal, the character portraits are blacked out, while in vanilla they were just completely empty

[@brandonv6905]

I think it was better the way it was in vanilla imo

[@Aigis31]

Wait, I could be wrong but I swear they had portraits in Vanilla, they just had shadows covering their faces or something

[@brandonv6905]

@@Aigis31 that was royal

[@Aigis31]

@@brandonv6905 hmm. I'll reboot vanilla and see if I was wrong. I emulated it but I swear I saw silhouettes of some kind

[@IPromiseTomorrow]

@@Aigis31 yea it was a silhouette Johneawesome has gameplay of it

[@BorsPepsi]

Morgana not telling you to sleep is actually way bigger then you make it out to be, cause during that time you could at least do stuff in LeBlanc like read a book, play a video game, watch TV, exercise, make coffee etc. In the original you would lose a bunch of these opportunists because of Morgana telling you to go to sleep.

[@alexjackyperson101]

It take me halfway through the game to realize it (basically 40 hour in it)

[@piotrlisowski2012]

It's actually kinda shitty of atlus to not change it in 2017 ver. I bet it's nothing more than changing a couple lines of code to just disable the dialogue and block on activity

[@WantedRaiderism]

​@alexjackyperson101 you're like, maybe a fourth? You're not half this game is 150-200 hours long

[@Dickandballs22]

@@WantedRaiderismholy shit is it????

[@fagitocumaeda]

For those who don’t have p5r and are hesitant because of the price, it goes on sale very often for about 39.99 or more depending on the sale. Specially neat if you’ve already played the original. If you can wait a little, it’ll definitely be worth the extra cash in my opinion.

[@fagitocumaeda]

Please do play persona 5 strikers after playing royal or vanilla, ITS SO GOOD AND SOME PEOPLE KINDA SLEPT ON IT?

[@Pottasium92]

@@fagitocumaeda actually Strikers is the sequel of the vanilla version, but yeah P5R really worth the 60bucks!

[@pavlostelior]

I bought Royal Deluxe for 31€ on ps store. Persona 5 vanilla was 50€.

[@monicaazevedo7787]

WAIT HOLY SHIT ROYAL COST IS 40.00 IN A SALE??? Here in Brazil because of the dollar price it’s 280.00 or something…

[@zappinapplez]

On sale rn actually

[@labadaba1147]

You need to get maruki confidant to lvl 9, only 10 is automatic.

[@plushytv5295]

Actually, Technically 1 & 2 are automatic too.

[@greatnovastar]

Welp guess I'll have to do a second play through...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Valstrax69]

@@greatnovastar I found that out after beating royal

[@murasakino101]

@@Valstrax69 I'm glad I searched up how to get the 3rd semester before I hoy further into the game. I already liked maruki's confidant but I had no idea he would be necessary for it. I'm playing currently and he's locked though. Can't hang out with him at all smh

[@jamiestreet7834]

@@murasakino101 I’m guessing your in summer

[@jackjohnson8305]

5:55 False, you need to get him to rank 9 not 8, once you get him to 9 you basically maxed him out. i think you're confusing maruki with akechi cuz you only need to get akechi to rank 8

[@Screenments]

This is correct, I apologize for the error.

[@Jimmeeehhh]

I might be screwed. I only have him at rank 6 and it's November 6.

[@jackjohnson8305]

@@Jimmeeehhh You have 11 days left, thats plenty of time to get him to rank 9.

[@Jimmeeehhh]

@@jackjohnson8305 Alright. Made a Councillor Persona, just in case.

[@jeremiahevans6346]

Wait I thought it was rank 8 not 9

[@advmx3]

And there's a LOT of small details in Persona 5 Royal that are not in Persona 5, load screens, textures, etc. There are things you only notice while playing both games one after another, as P5 is a masterpiece, and if you play you may think there's nothing that needs to be changed there BUT after you play P5R you just can't go back to P5. That's how good an upgrade it is.

[@Diego35HD]

100% agreed It's honestly just a better game in every aspect, right after platinuming regular P5 I thought "Atlus, aside from difficulty, how do you top this quality or improve this?" and I ate my words gladly once I got my hands on the game. Now the game may still be easy unless you start from scratch on hard, but still, I didn't die as much as I did on SMTIV. It's also an even bigger improvement if you played P5 on PS3

[@AlexDuck]

Thanks for this. I JUST beat P5 last week for the first time and was debating a second playthrough (new game+) or checking out P5R. I think I will probably check out P5R instead now.

[@sans-99998]

It looks good, but the price is a bit high for me. I think I can just play the original one

[@baklavalite]

i just bought persona 5 and am 7 hours in and now i hear that persona 5 royal is better, should i buy persona 5 royal instead?

[@dezzy8751]

@@sans-99998$60 for an old game in this economy is crazy they should drop it to 35-40 max

[@phenompy]

In the vanilla version, Makoto texts you to go for a movie date during 7/30, if you accept there's a short funny cutscene where she's waiting for you outside the theater. But in Royal, Makoto only sends you a message the 28/7 but you can only see that text if you reject Ryuji's offer to spend the day in Leblanc since he will ask you the day before to hang out during the 28th. If you decide to go with Makoto during the evening, the cutscene where she is waiting for you is completely skipped and you will be teleported directly into the movie theater with her.

[@markmystery3536]

I can't find the cutscene of it on YT =((

[@koppii2]

From what I remember, this is the movie date where she invites you to watch a Yakuza movie right?

[@eliotrotach6678]

Damn Persona traits seemed so natural and logic that i forgot it wasnt in the original game

[@SvanTowerMan]

I'm used to playing the game Age of Empires II, which has team bonuses belonging to each civilization. As the name suggests, the bonuses apply to all members of the starting team (but not any players you ally with later). Persona Traits are essentially the same kind of thing, and allow for similar strategic choosing of team members. It's a very good addition.

[@unknownusername74]

Any and all money is worth it for this game, even if you’ve played the content in the vanilla version and just want the third semester’s story content. It’s just that good.

[@hyperstargaming6150]

Isn’t 3rd semester in of itself almost 20 hours at LEAST of extra playtime? There’s games of $60 that have less playtime than that (good games I might add). Worth it, absolutely.

[@pentagonyx]

I think that everyone should play Royal, because it goes on sale a LOT, plus with how long the game is, it’d make more sense to simply save up and play Royal. Also, even if you for SOME reason hate Royal stuff, for the most part you can just ignore the Royal stuff like Maruki and Kasumi.

[@SSlash]

That’s actually true yeah, if you just want your normal usual P5 experience but updated, then go right ahead! No one is forcing anyone to do any of it after all lol

[@pentagonyx]

@@SSlash tho you still should tbh 👀

[@SSlash]

@@pentagonyx and I definitely agree they should but for whatever reason some people just don’t like the new stuff 😔✊

[@reelzebub4167]

Yea I got it a few days ago since the deluxe edition was on sale for 20 bucks

[@dahelgarcia3541]

I really don’t like what they did with Akechi. His arc was great as it was imo, it feels to fanservice-y in p5r

[@pspublic13]

The best thing about the vanilla version is the intro and the ending. I wish there was a option in Royale to pick which intro and ending version plays in a new game.

[@togedemarusiridescence7219]

I played the game twice and I never knew that you could increase party members’ technical damage.

[@cullenlatham2366]

more notably, when maxing out technical, it acts as an alternate weakness that ALWAYS downs the foe, making the endgame enemies without actual weaknesses easier to hold up/recruit (assuming royal didnt downgrade the downed percent of technical just to restore it through the new upgrade, as ive only played royal)

[@loganbigmo]

So you played the game twice yet never bothered doing billiards? :P

[@phantom-X2086]

@@loganbigmo I honestly forgot the darts and billards increase baton pass and technical damage, until I just saw this video now 💀I never did the rest of the party members to increase it, which could explain why my baton passes and tech damage did not as much as I wanted it to 😭

[@mystery8820]

Correction on Maruki’s, manually go to Rank 9, automatically go to Rank 10.

[@lorikeet6782]

I really like the idea of this video series and I’m really looking forward to it!! Do you plan on continuing your randomizer series?

[@Screenments]

Yessir, I still must beat the Persona 5 Randomizer. It's just hard to grind with so many resets, so other series like these are nice to make.

[@lorikeet6782]

@@Screenments Yay!!! Thanks for responding. Can’t wait for both series, I’m stoked!

[@AdjustedDisparity]

@@Screenments sick, keep up the great content m8

[@zeromaximus4261]

Another difference between vanilla and Royal is the VA for Tae Takemi is not the same. Not sure why it was changed but I really liked the Voice for the vanilla version. Royals VA wasn’t bad but after 6 playthroughs on the vanilla it definitely felt weird.

[@someasiankid6323]

she sounds like an milf in the old one and sounds like a big titty goth gf in the new one. new one by far is better

[@mechaman5000]

One way to look at P5 and P5R to understand it more is to see it as similar Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix

[@itsyaboi921]

The graphics have been touched up pretty nicely it’s clearly less grainy and jagged

[@LvXGameMaster]

If you're going to play Strikers after Royal and not play the Vanilla game, keep in mind that Strikers was in development before Royal, so it follows the plotline of the vanilla game. I.E. characters who appear specifically in Royal will not appear in Strikers.

[@hyperstargaming6150]

It’s also good to keep in mind that Royal started development rather soon after Strikers, so they decided to cross reference the storylines to make sure that Royal would still make sense if you followed up with Strikers. Some confusing moments slipped, that’s true, but there’s nothing even remotely major that contradicts Royal in Strikers, you’re literally just missing the main characters of 3rd semester. I think they knew that Strikers was gonna come out later than Royal, despite starting development earlier.

[@someonewhospams0w0inchat16]

​@@hyperstargaming6150then they release persona 5 q2 and release those said characters as dlc 😂😂😂.

[@Socryt]

I LOVE SCREENMENTS! WOOOOO SCREENMENTS!

[@pwndkake3980]

IF YOU LOVE SCREENMENTS SO MUCH THEN WHY DON’T YOU JUST MARRY IT!!! 😤

[@Socryt]

@@pwndkake3980 i've been happily married to him since 2017

[@pwndkake3980]

@@Socryt congrats 🎈🎉🍾 i hope you have peaceful memories together forever

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

Tfw when they didn't fixed the space maze pain

[@umbrella3096]

Was there a problem with it? I played it on vanilla just a few months ago and thought it was fine albeit annoying

[@SSlash]

@@umbrella3096 exactly, there was too little change to it compared how much was changed for the better in other areas lol

[@FunkMcLovin]

I only played royal but I appreciate the vid because it clued me in to what was improved. Thanks!

[@vovazagach1781]

Improved was only gameplay, story was completely ruined.

[@MariusBoss11458]

I've played Strikers first Because I saw it on PS Plus and said "Fine, I'll do it" and after the first Chapter I got hooked. Haven't played Royal or Vanilla yet but I gotta say. Strikers didn't spoil much about the Main Game, and I easily got attached to every character. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who says that Haru is Waifu Material.

[@samuelniemeyer589]

Strikers spoils all the phantom thief reveals

[@alannacussons9680]

@@samuelniemeyer589 to be fair, so does the animated intro (and the main menu) to both P5 and P5R (unless you were being sarcastic)

[@thatonekid640]

you really should bite the bullet and get royal, the transition is strange between the two games but if you like the characters you absolutely need to play it

[@hirschmeistr6842]

@@samuelniemeyer589 to be fair the reveals aren’t very unexpected. The only one I didn’t predict was Ryuji because I thought he was a random side character

[@stupidone5558]

i VERY MUCH appreciate the first 3 minutes of differentiating between the titles. I was avoiding persona 5 strikers because I had zero clue about it and thought it was rehashing the game I already played. Now that I know it happens after the events of 5, I may get it and actually play it.

[@UberWraith]

The new characters they added in Strikers are actually REALLY good.

[@mariomarcos2148]

Thank you you literally answered my question within the first 4 min now I’ll play and figure out the rest lol

[@ryanfadh]

We need Persona 6 with Nanako as MC

[@youngrydah4374]

It might be they are working on one that's a female main character.

[@shaiklatheef7599]

I want persona game with nanako and adachi as party members

[@fl1ppy810]

I would like to add the fact that the ps3 version has a surprisingly large amount if mods for it, which in my eyes make it the best version of vanilla p5 (at least when emulated using rpcs3). They've modded in new outfits (including the p5r dlc outfits), new battle music, "new" protagonists like p3mc and p3p's femc, the p3 and p4 protagonist boss fights from royals dlc and added some of royals improvements like 60fps, 4k resolution and the improved bust-ups.

[@QaDri93]

I keep forgetting there’s a PS3 Persona 5 lol

[@nevaskomaeda3051]

60fps isn't a royal improvement because they didn't bother making 60fps available in Royal.

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

I was tempted to play new game plus and get all the trophies in the OG but after watching this I’m heading straight to royal! My brother is a fan of the games so we already have both

[@calalyoko]

I've played the vanilla version on ps3 way back when it first came out, and I enjoyed it But with the announcement of a PC release, I am definitely looking at getting Royal. Even at full price. I haven't played the game fully through since that first time, so it'll be fun to see all the changes and get to re-experience stuff with a fresh coat of paint

[@wingedprinceofrose]

Ugh, I just started playing regular P5 when this game out. I thought this just added a new character not all these things. I guess I'll just play through the normal version, buy royal, then play royal many years from now when I forgot what happened in P5 normal so it'll be a bit of a surprise haha

[@evomichel9900]

Plot twits: you wont forget... P5 have that kind of story that will stay with you forever. :) Yeah, its that great. EDIT: Another thing, you arent playng the inferior version, youre playng the version that matters, the gameplay changes on royal are great, also the new story arc. But that sotry arc arent on the same level of the original, even though its pretty great, imho.

[@SSlash]

@@evomichel9900 I have to disagree, the new ending and palace and everything about the third semester is a much more satisfying conclusion for the phantom thieves than how the at the time final boss was dealt with in the original, and a hell of a lot more thought provoking and emotional for sure too, not really sure how anyone would disagree with that if I’m being honest but it is what it is I guess, not to mention the new tracks that we got out of that whole last segment of the game are just god tier…

[@sithmaster4305]

@@SSlash And I disagree. I find the final ending of the OG to be considerably better with Joker rejecting how he was at the start running away with his new friends, and finally taking off his glasses signifying him coming into himself.

[@RyanKarolak]

I recently got a used PS4 and I just started Persona 5 Royal. I have already completed 3 FES, 4 Golden, and TMS#FE En. Thanks for the helpful video!

[@toaster4693]

I'm actually glad I played the original first and I would encourage new players to play the original as well. More challenging and better original ending. Royal was fun for a follow up playthrough but I'm glad it wasn't my original experience.

[@txgoldrush]

Are you mad? The ending in P5 sucked very hard and Royal absolutely fixes this. In fact Strikers did the end of P5 basically better than P5 did. The original P5 never knew what it wanted to be out and that is its biggest failure. And its "challenge" came from poor gameplay design.

[@vovazagach1781]

​@@txgoldrushNO! It's you who is mad, persona 5 royal is a peace if shit nothing more, also it's not canon.

[@txgoldrush]

@@vovazagach1781 it was far better received. And it is canon. The DLC for Tactics is proof.

[@vovazagach1781]

@@txgoldrush Strikers is proof enough that it is not.

[@txgoldrush]

@@vovazagach1781 except that Maruki's palace is a bit referenced in the Japanese version.

[@jenkinsuu]

dude sounds like hes kyle schwartz

[@catseatmeowmix690]

Thank you, Persona 5 royal was just announced for switch and I didn’t know the difference between Royal and Vanilla

[@amalaspina]

The ¥50,000 might seem like an underwhelming bonus, but I like it. It's enough to boost your early game and doesn't unbalance the game as a whole. Plus if you want an early game boon just summon a high level dlc persona you get for free.

[@Aigis31]

Thank you for this series! I beat Vanilla a few months ago and own Royal but haven't had the chance to pick it up yet, but hearing all these changes makes me giddy to start!!

[@finthehuman9581]

can u say sally is the soup on sale???

[@patrik3482]

4 whole minutes of not talking about the title of the video... wow.

[@gurpreetbajwa4490]

I've been playing Persona 5 Royal years after the fact and I had no idea they made so many small changes that add to the experience

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Tycoon is so fun, it's like a card game i know called "arschloch" or asshole which we play a lot here in germany but with some different rules. It's basically the same game but tycoon adds the eight stop, bankrupcy, jokers and most importantly the revolution which is such a cool mechanic

[@giggity6942]

Who’s that man in the thumbnail?

[@SirEvilestDeath]

It’s bullshit they have such an early cutoff time and specific requirements just to unlock the new Palace. That’s pretty much why most people would want this version…the new content and all. For them to soft lock you at such an early day and have further requirements or oops you have to start all over again is bullshit for a game that easily is over 100 hours long to just beat normally. Secret bosses hidden? Fine, a full level hidden? Not fine!