Sega, Atlus, and Koei Tecmo revealed the first trailer forPersona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers, revealing its Japanese release date.Persona 5 Scramblelaunches on June 30, 2025, on PS4 and Switch, for 8800 Yen, (tax excluded). There’s no release estimate for a western release yet.
Let’s take a look at the trailer and analyze it:
The narrator at the beginning mentions the incident happening now could be linked to the Phantom Thieves incident which shook the world 6 months ago. Moreover, multiple times through the trailer, the characters reveal howPersona 5 Scrambletakes place in summer. This means it’s set afterPersona 5’s story.Persona 5 Scrambleis an actual sequel with new story elements. The official site confirms so as well and explicitly says “afterPersona 5’s ending” rather than “afterPersona 5 The Royal’s ending” so maybe Kasumi won’t be appearing inP5S.
We also learn that this new incident includes a new parallel world similar to Palaces. And powerful shadows appearing all over Japan. So the Phantom Thieves, after reuniting for summer vacation, start traveling to investigate all Japan. It explains why theprevious teaser trailershowed the names of various big Japanese cities.
Players can bring up to 4 characters in battle and can rotate through them at any time.The official siteconfirmed: “all Phantom Thieves are directly playable except for Navi/Futaba”. This is surprising as I was expecting Futaba to be playable and thought that was what theStar Ocean Anamnesiscollab was teasing.
The mysterious new character shown in the very firstPersona 5 Scrambleteaser traileris playable as well.
Joker, as a Wild Card, is able to switch between different personas.
While the battles seem like the usualMusougame, we have some exploration phases as well, like in a traditionalPersonagame. Omega Force highly pushed the RPG side and it seems we’re really getting “Persona 5 Action RPG” rather than “Persona 5 Musou”.
We also have multiple new characters. In particular, we have a man leading the police force. This new character is voiced by veteran seiyuu Shinichiro Miki. (My favorite roles he did are Allen inEscaflowneand Jin inPretty Rhythmby the way.)
That’s everything we can make out of the trailer. The official site and online shops also include the screenshots above.
Atlus also announced those who preorderPersona 5 Scramblein Japan will receive BGMs from thePersonaseries as DLC. Players will be able to play these tracks during normal battles inPersona 5 Scramble. Here’s the tracklist:
These will also be sold as DLC sometime afterP5S’s release, with each game having its own DLC OST pack.
A limited edition was also announced. It’s titled thePersona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers Otakara Box,sold for 13,800 Yen (tax excluded). Here are its contents:
Persona 5 Scramble’s boxart was also revealed.
Lastly, Atlus and Koei Tecmo mentioned more info onPersona 5 Scramblewill be coming through a livestream on November 4, at 20:00 JST.(Click here for time conversions)
Personally speaking, I never playMusou-related titles that aren’t the originalThree KingdomsandSengokuthemed games. The only one I was ever interested in wasFire Emblem Warriors,but I lost all interest when the game focused onAwakeningandFatescharacters. It’s pretty much the first time I’m so excited for a licensedMusougame. Because it seems much more than “Persona 5 Musou”. I’d even say I’m much more hyped than forPersona 5 Royalsince everything aboutPersona 5 Scrambleis a much bigger surprise.Persona 5 Royallaunches on PS4 on October 31 in Japan. I’m getting it day one so look forward to my impressions.
