In a press launch, Atlus revealed how Persona 5 Tactica will provide a tactical twist on the franchise’s basic methods of elemental weak spot, with distinctive expertise and talents for each character, and social connections to discover.
Identical to in Persona 5, your characters can take cowl. If characters are in cowl on the finish of their flip, they’ll take decreased harm or completely evade hurt. Nonetheless, if they are not in cowl on the finish of your flip, enemies will get a “One Extra” and may deal an extra spherical of harm.
Elemental assaults additionally inflict illnesses onto enemies. Fireplace assaults, like Agi, will deal further harm on the finish of the affected enemy’s flip, for instance, whereas electrical assaults, like Zio, will forestall affected enemies from transferring. If you happen to hit an enemy that has taken cowl with a ability, you may get a One Extra and get the possibility to hit them once more. On this means, and with different skills, you may chain collectively assaults to deal continuous harm.
Taking or dealing harm fills up a Voltage gauge. When the gauge is full, your character will have the ability to unleash a novel particular skill. Moreover, each character has a novel ability tree, which you’ll improve over time. As you win battles, and hang around with occasion members in Speak Occasions, you may get Progress Factors that you would be able to spend on expertise. You can even reset a personality’s ability tree to check out new builds and talents.
As for the plot, Tactica entails the solid of Persona 5 in a brand new battle. After the occasions of Persona 5, the Phantom Thieves are mysteriously transferred to a brand new realm within the Metaverse (no, not that one). Surrounded by mysterious troopers of the Legionnaires, the Phantom Thieves struggle the faction’s chief Marie. They’re defeated and the chief of a resistance motion, Erina, saves solely two of the thieves from Marie’s brainwashing energy: Joker and Morgana. They’re then tasked with releasing the Phantom Thieves and attending to the underside of Marie’s devious plots.
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