It’s testament to Persona 5’s critical success and popularity that, rather than give us the sixth entry in the series, Atlus seems intent on giving us another spin-off. Persona 5 Strikers already extended the narrative of the Phantom Thieves; now Tactica is giving us even more. But does this all leave the Persona 5 story now stretched too thin?
At the very least, Atlus is mixing up the series’ traditional gameplay with each release. Strikers turned the classic turn-based combat into Warriors-style Musou battles. With Tactica – as the name implies – it’s a grid-based tactics title.
This tactics combat was the focus of the demo I recently played at Gamescom. Indeed, even after playing it’s still unclear to me what social sim aspects Tactica will include in addition to its battles. After all, relationships and time management – balancing efforts in the real and demon worlds – are what make Persona, Persona.
