Any Persona fan will find a lot to love in Trails of Cold Steel, with its engaging social system, mature storyline, and fleshed out characters.Ĭonception II is certainly a bit of an odd game, although it does have quite a few similarities with the Persona series. Combat remains the tried and true formula of The Legend of Heroes series, with a big emphasis on positioning and special attacks. The system isn’t as stringent as Persona, but it does give the game a sense of time passing all the same.
On top of this the game advances with a calendar system, having you live out each day through classes, hanging out with classmates, or doing special operations. Doing this boosts that respective character’s link level, unlocking new abilities in combat, similarly to how the Persona social link system works. To go along with this, you build a relationship with each by spending your free time with them while at the school. Your fellow classmates are the various party members for the game, and they each play an important role in the story. Rean ends up being selected for a special class, trained to handle important missions for the Erebonian Empire. The title casts you as Rean Swcharzer, a new student at the Thors military academy. Trails of Cold Steel feels like a fusion between The Legend of Heroes series and Persona, retaining many of the thematic and combat elements of the former along with some of the social aspects of the latter. If you need a little bit more to scratch that Persona itch, this may just be the best next step. There’s plenty to enjoy with the title as well, as you’ll easily have 60-100 hours of gameplay on just your first run through, and luckily scaling difficulty levels make it one of the most accessible titles of the SMT series.
If you’ve played Persona 5 you’ll feel right at home with all of the systems in Apocalypse, like exploiting enemies’ weaknesses and bargaining with demons to get them to join your team. While this is true with Apocalypse, the game does feature a surprisingly engaging story with a memorable cast of main characters. The main SMT series has much more of an emphasis on gameplay and demon capturing, whereas Persona is more focused on story. Picking up right at the end of the original SMT IV, Apocalypse follows a brand new character in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Tokyo. Persona, of course, has a lot in common with its mothership series Shin Megami Tensei, and the latest entry SMT IV: Apocalypse is another stellar title.
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