According to publisher Koei Tecmo's latest financial report, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers will be heading West at some point. The title is listed as one of the company's Western projects -- Koei Tecmo being the developer -- and while we were always expecting Scramble to launch in North America and Europe eventually, this is still the first official mention of the game's planned release outside of Asia.
The report doesn't go into any detail -- there's no expected launch window or anything like that -- but it's great news for Persona fans nonetheless. Now we just need SEGA and Atlus to give us a proper release date.
Are you looking forward to Persona 5 Scramble? Get the gang back together in the comments section below.
[source personacentral.com]
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Of course it is. Atlus brings over almost everything, and Persona 5 was wildly successful for them. Bringing over dancing spinoffs, but not a direct story sequel? Unthinkable.
The sooner the better, this game looks soooo good.
Just give us a date for the love of Lucifer!
I'm thinking the reason it's taking so long is a mixture of Covid causing delays, and possibly an overlap with the next gen launch.
Boy I sure hope so. Would be a shame if Scramble never made it over to the West.
Too bad we don't get a western release of Yakuza Ishin.
The only game I care about now is Yakuza Ishin getting ported over.
I’m really hoping for a Western release. PS5 Royal has been consuming all of my gaming time of late. Brilliant game.
Was it seriously so hard to confirm a western release?
It's most likely coming to the west in 2021. Atlus might have it's best year yet next year with Shin Megami Tensei 3 Remastered, Shin Megami Tensei V and Persona 5 Scramble.
Are “Kasumi” and Maruki in this? I would hope so but It seemed to me this launched before Royal in Japan...so it would be a sequel to the vanilla version of the game. Confusing timeline 🤪
As expected as a Western release was, it's great to have it mostly confirmed.
@Feena No Royal stuff in this, it's based on the original Persona 5. Kind of sucks, to be honest!
@ShogunRok yes, the localization times did not work well for this: it’s gonna be a little weird to return to the previous version of the story.
Big shame that Royal isn't canon.
@Terra I really wouldn't put Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers Royal past Atlus. Guess it depends how well the game sells in the West — it did okay in Japan.
I must be in the minority but didn't especially care for the Royal content/characters.
@Feena
The game is a direct sequel to P5. Not P5R.
Akechi is dead. Sumire and Maruki never happened. It starts off with the reunion of the phantom thieves. A year after the events or P5, if I'm not mistaken about the time.
@TheTrueSelf I wonder if the ling wait for P5S to come west is because they are releasing an updated version?
@TheTrueSelf Persona 5 Scramble takes place exactly 6 months after the original P5.
After seeing all the trailers for this game and gameplay, I'm genuinely excited and can't wait to get it. Never played a Dynasty Warriors-like game before combined with one of the best Persona games imo. I played the demo a while back and it felt really smooth.
@TheTrueSelf I think we got to different endings on Persona 5 Royal. Which I guess shouldn’t be surprising since the game has multiple endings. That also kind of makes it hard to have Persona 5 Royal’s ending as cannon.
@Ryall
The "true" ending is where Maruki loses and Akechi "dies"(?).
Everyone goes to live their lives.
Futaba goes to Shujin, Makoto and Haru moved out to live on their own, Ann went abroad, etc.
Therefore, it unfortunately cannot be a sequel to Royal...
@Feena I doubt that.
Maybe the ps5 version?
Persona 5 came to both ps3 and 4. I see it as possible.
But not really an extended version or royal version, that feels a bit early.
Thanks for the info! Looking forward to buying this eventually, here's hoping for a Spring or Summer 2021 release.
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