![]() After stealing the treasure, and returning to the real world, their target begins to repent of their crimes, often in a very dramatic fashion. Their ultimate objective is to find the target’s treasure, which is an object that represents the point in their lives where they allowed themselves to become corrupted by one of the capital sins to obtain some desire such as power or wealth. The Phantom Thieves fight using physical manifestations of their heart, known as “Personas”, which reflect their personalities. Here they fight physical manifestations of the person’s corrupted desires taking the form of various figures and monsters from various religions (including Christianity), pop culture, etc. They do this by entering their targets’ minds through a world known as the “metaverse” (is this what inspired Mark Zuckerburg?) which allows them to enter their hearts as a physical dimension. Their objective is to make them have a “change of heart”. They are a group of high schoolers who were gifted with the powers of a Persona, and now target corrupt influential leaders in society. Persona 5 is a turn-based JRPG which takes place in Tokyo where you play as Joker, a leader of a vigilante group known as the Phantom Thieves. ![]() It’s finally time for CGR to review Persona 5! It’s a complicated relationship as I can still accept their good aspects but also have to carry a critical lens when analyzing the heavy moral baggage that the series will place upon a Christian. So looking back at these games post-conversion gives me mixed feelings as I found them fun but now have lots of moral concerns about the series. And after a long and painful process of conversion, and learning to love God for more wholesome reasons, I am where I am today, a member of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. And the imperfect conviction of quickly accepting all this came upon out of fear of going to the hell that Jesus described, “in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” and “fire does not end”. I kept reading despite how insane it sounded to me as a secular youth and became convinced that Jesus of Nazareth was something more than had even been described to me. But this bible was one of those mini bibles that only have the New Testament, so I ended up starting in Matthew thinking it was gonna be some cool lore but being utterly surprised when it was a book full of striking and strange teachings. Back then I thought that the angels and demons you could use in the games were really cool, so when this protestant evangelist gave me this bible one day at my college campus, one of the reasons I considered reading it was to learn the lore behind these figures. This might sound funny, but the Persona series was one of the reasons that led to my conversion to Christianity. So after playing it, I got really invested into the series playing Persona 2 and 3 and watching playthroughs of Persona 4 and Q. It also encouraged me to start becoming a better person and convinced me to start doing basic things like standing up for myself when someone pushed my boundaries and doing challenging things to better oneself. ![]() Now this time wasn’t the best for me, and I won’t get into too much detail, but given how fun Persona 5 was, it helped me keep my head up. This was back when I was fresh out of high school, off a recommendation of some friends and seeing how fun Joker was in Smash Bros. I played Persona 5 before I converted to the Catholic faith. Now before we get into the review I wanted to give some personal background. Please note this review covers some particularly heavy & mature topics. ![]() We will be covering the Royal edition of the game which is a re-release of the original Persona 5 featuring additional content such as a new party member, a new semester/dungeon, and lots of other quality of life changes since this is the version that the systems mentioned earlier will be receiving. However these new additions won’t be covered in much detail and will more so be a general review. ![]() With a Steam, Switch, and Xbox release here, the team at Catholic Game Reviews wanted to review the very popular yet controversial title Persona 5 so that Catholics can make a more informed decision as to whether they should be buying it (bet you never saw it coming =p). ![]()
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