A brand new group of Phantom Thieves can be stealing hearts in Tokyo. Black Wings Recreation Studio, the developer owned by Chinese language firm Good World Video games, has unveiled a new cellular sport set within the Persona 5 universe. The earlier spinoffs of the title, Persona 5 Strikers and Dancing in Starlight, function the unique gang, however this one comes with a model new forged of characters. Whereas it wasn’t created by Atlus itself, Persona: Phantom of the Night time (or Persona 5: The Phantom X, shortened as P5X) had SEGA’s blessing. It was additionally developed below the supervision of P-Studio, the staff behind the mainline Persona video games.
Thus far, its trailers present us a red-haired protagonist who’s juggling highschool life and Metaverse thievery, a brown-haired lady paying homage to P4‘s Chie and a speaking owl who, like Morgana, can remodel right into a getaway car. The developer has additionally launched character paintings for one more feminine character with lengthy black hair and one other for Igor’s new assistant within the Velvet Room.
In response to the sport’s announcement, franchise character designer Shigenori Soejima created the sport’s protagonist and unique Persona. And should you watch the trailer under, you may see that Black Wings was in a position to seize the feel and appear of the unique Persona 5 sport fairly effectively. It makes use of the identical gameplay and battle results, and it options the identical victory close-ups, in addition to the favored P5 battle soundtrack Wake Up, Rise up, Get Out There.
In contrast to the unique Persona 5 sport, P5X can be free to play, which implies it would have in-app purchases. Will probably be accessible to beta testers on Android, iOS and Home windows (as a port) beginning on March twenty ninth, however solely in China. The developer has but to announce if it will likely be launched outdoors the area.