Persona 5 Royal Tips: 9 Things You Need To Know Before You Start

Persona 5 Royal is a giant JRPG where your free time is precious as you can only do a limited number of things in a day. Between managing friends (also known as Confidants) and exploring dungeons, there are many different aspects of the game to juggle.

Now that the game will be released outside of PlayStation consoles, we’ve listed a few tips below that we’d like to know before we jump into the critically acclaimed JRPG.

See things around you to get free stats

There are plenty of things to do around you that will passively increase your stats without having to mess around, you just have to keep an eye out for them. Whether it’s completing a crossword puzzle left at the cafe or giving a plant some fertilizer, you’ll want to interact with the various things around you to make sure you’re making the most of your time.

Keep books and DVDs with you for even more stats

There are many nights when you can’t leave Leblanc, but you can still read books and watch DVDs on these nights. You should head to the book and DVD store in Shibuya and buy a few things so you can earn stat points even when you can’t get out of the cafe.

All Confidants are useful, not just your party members

While it can be tempting to ignore some of the non-Phantom Thief characters, you should rank up as many people as you can as they will give you useful abilities.

For example, shogi player Hifumi Togo gives you the ability to swap party members mid-battle, Professor Sadayo Kawakami lets you read books during class, and Doctor Tae Takemi gives you access to special medicines.

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For the true ending, make sure to focus on these three characters.

You need to make sure you reach certain Confidant ranks with three specific characters on specific dates in order to reach the “true ending” of the game, which is the most complete version. Be sure to spend time with Takuto Maruki (Counselor), Goro Akechi (Justice), and Kasumi Yoshizawa (Faith) in mid-November.

Diversify your characters and don’t be afraid to merge them

You should have enough Personas to cover a variety of different items, especially ones that your party members don’t have. Since you can change your Persona once per turn, you can easily exploit the enemy’s weaknesses.

That said, you should also fuse your Personas as you level up instead of using the same ones forever. Once a Persona has no more new abilities to learn, that’s usually a sign that they should fuse it into a stronger one.

Don’t forget to register your characters after leveling them.

All the Personas you collect are automatically added to a compendium where you can re-summon them for a fee. However, the compendium will not retroactively keep up with your leveling, so if you want to get rid of a Persona you’ve been using and call them back later, you need to register them in the compendium in the Velvet Room first. Signing up doesn’t cost anything, so get in the habit of doing it before you ditch or merge your Personas.

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Make the most of your time in palaces and Mementos

Once you leave a palace or Mementos, you can’t do anything else for the rest of the night (unless you max out Kawakami’s Confidant rank). To avoid missing a day, make sure you don’t enter any of these places until you’re fully ready to explore. This means you have your Mementos requests in order, healing items stocked, and anything else you might need before fighting a bunch of baddies, since you’re not supposed to leave until you’re completely done.

Be aware of special weather conditions.

Weather affects a lot of things in the game, like stat gains, things you can buy in shops, and shadows in Mementos. Rainy nights will allow you to gain more charm from the bathhouse or knowledge from studying at Leblanc or the restaurant.

Special weather conditions are great for Mementos, as certain types of weather will weaken the shadows. For example, if there is a “pollen warning”, the shadows in Mementos will be more lethargic and tired.

Don’t stress about completing everything

Technically, there’s time to do everything, but you’ll need to follow a pretty rigorous and polished schedule to do it. Doing this can be a lot of work, so if this is your first game of Persona 5 (in any form), we recommend that you do what you want and take it at your own pace.

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