WELCOME TO THE PHANSITE...

What is Persona 5?

Persona 5 is the fifth main game in the Persona series, and as of June 2024 is the latest main Persona game. It's a game by Atlus west and was originally released in Japan in 2016, later released in the West in 2017. Persona 5 took a long time to develop with many release dates that were pushed to a later time. The game is an JRPG with dungeon crawling and life simulators elements where you're a normal (well... almost normal) high school student during the day, and then phantom thief at night!.. Well actually not a night since you do that during the day too lol. It focuses on a theme of freedom, corruption, and the color red. Uh.. that's it!! It's a really cool game and you should definetely play it (do NOT watch the anime) if you have not.

How did I get into Persona?

I got into P5 in probably the dumbest, weirdest way ever. It wasn't through smash bros, it wasn't through the release of Royal... IT WAS BECAUSE OF A SPED UP SONG SHOWING FUTABAS FACE and I was like "Oh!!! This person looks pretty cool! I wonder where she's from!" AND THEN I WATCHED THE ANIME WHICH IS LITERALLY THE WORST WAY TO EXPERIENECE THE STORY. And then a few months later I got the game and realized how much I didn't understand in the anime lol. So I'm warning you...Do not make P5A your first experience of the game...! After I played P5R I moved on to play other persona games like Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 reload (yes I'm newgen).

What do the names mean?

Phansite is the name of a popular poll in the game where people vote yes or no on a question. The site is made by Mishima (which is WAY overhated imo), one of your friends in the game. The poll may seem unimportant at first but later in the game it plays a major roll. Obviously this site isn't a poll but maybe I'll make one if I have the time.. I made this site because I love the Persona series lol.. That's it.

The thieves den is a place added in Persona 5 Royal which is an archive where you can listen to the songs, watch animations, view concept art and play card games!!! The thieves den here is only a place to write about the content in P5R though.

Confidants are your social links where you bond with them and unlock special abilities as well as a fusion boost which is based on how much you have bonded with your confidant. For example if you're level 2 with your confidant you will get a small exp boost when fusing a demon of the same arcana, but if you're level 9 you'll get a large amount of exp when fusing. Here it'll show information about characters.

Mementos is the collective unconscious of the people in Persona 5. They represent the sin of sloth.. In the game it is a place to farm exp and finish quests due to palaces in game only being unlocked for a specific amount of time. Here it'll talk about Villians, sins and other stuff..

Gameplay

Persona 5s gameplay is known as being pretty easy. Persona's gameplay is based of its original game, Shin Megami Tensei, where you use demons from the sea of souls that are based of religions, novels, etc (apologies if I got anything wrong, I haven't played SMT yet). The game has turn-based combat where you play as the main character, Joker, alongside 3 other teammates. Most characters are assigned to a role eg, healer, damage dealer as well as an elements. However Joker is the wild card and can switch between different personas at different times.

Fusion is where you get multiple persona's and fuse them together to make a persona which is usually stronger. Confidants in game help you by providing EXP boosts when you fuse a persona of the same arcana. You might be thinking "whats an arcana?" The arcana is a common tarot card deck consisting of 22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana; the confidants are based of the major arcana. The more progress you have in your relationship, the more EXP is given to the newly fused persona. I think I explained before so I wont bother writing it again.

Another part of Persona is it being a social-simulator, where you're a high school student making relationships with people, increasing your social stats and attending class. I don't really know what to say about this besides that it's pretty fun and something that gives Persona its identity.