Let’s get proper into it: Persona 5 wouldn’t be the success story that it’s with out the PS4. And with that in thoughts, the whole lack of an improve path for present PS4 gamers is a slap within the face. It would not matter when you’ve already paid full value for Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal on Sony’s last-gen system — SEGA and Atlus are asking you to do it once more for this straight PS5 port of the latter.

This port’s enhancements are virtually non-existent. It runs at 60 frames-per-second, which is good, and makes an already silky clean presentation that a lot smoother — however being a turn-based RPG, a better framerate was by no means a necessity. Oh, and Royal was already pushing a local 4K decision on PS4 Pro, so you don’t get any enhancements there.

But hey, at the very least all the beforehand launched DLC is included from the beginning. Loads of character costumes and new personas do add a little bit of spice to proceedings when you by no means forked out for them on PS4. The added content material is not fairly well worth the value of (re)admission, however this port does truly get one thing proper.

Moving on, the PS5 model has its personal Trophy record (it is the identical because it was on PS4), however there is not any solution to switch your save knowledge, and so there is not any solution to merely pop all the Trophies that you simply already earned final time round. Not solely are gamers being requested to pay up for the sport once more, they’re being requested to begin over from scratch on a 120-hour journey that has a really complete New Game+ choice. It’s a little bit of a piss-take.

But for all of SEGA and Atlus’ bullsh*t, there is not any denying that Persona 5 Royal is an excellent RPG. Playing via it once more has solely solidified our opinion that it is nonetheless probably the greatest ever, even years faraway from its preliminary launch. If you need our full ideas on why it is so good, you need to learn our authentic Persona 5 Royal PS4 evaluate, as all of these factors nonetheless stand.

With its melding of fantastic gameplay methods, married to a really unmatched sense of favor and an iconic soundtrack, Persona 5 Royal is a real murals — and that makes its writer’s greed all of the extra shameful.