Persona 5 Strikers review — I didn’t see this coming

Despite my love for the Persona series, I wasn’t excited for Persona 5 Strikers. As soon as I found out that this spinoff was taking inspiration from Koei Tecmo’s Dynasty Warriors series, with direct help from the studio behind those games, I lost interest. I never cared for Dynasty Warriors, even when Nintendo marries franchises like Zelda or Fire Emblem to the formula.

Persona 5 Strikers, however, is surprising. It’s much more Persona than it is Dynasty Warriors. It feels like a Persona 5 sequel, just with the combat switching from turn-based battles to real-time action.