When it comes to the overworld, very few things have seen changes. Many of the locations (such as Shibuya and Yongen-Jaya) resemble their original game counterparts and activities (like batting and fishing) are also unchanged. However, there are some new locations to visit, such as Zoshigaya, and some new activities like playing music or soccer. There is also a gachapon (and as of Update 3.0.2 a claw game) the protagonist can play and try to get rewards that can be used to decorate the protagonist’s house.

As the male silent protagonist (who is named by the player, though he is canonically named Nagisa Kamishiro[d], but also given the codename Wonder) attending the school in modern-day Tokyo, players experience the story events, answer questions in class, and freely explore the city after school or during days off in order to engage in various activities.

[8] The Persona staff provided input on the game's story and setting, and directly presented ideas regarding the characterization of the copyright Thieves, which were then turned into original characters by Black Wings staff.[citation needed]

At Tokyo Game Show, the Japanese version of the game was revealed. There was an in person demo alongside cosplayers and merch much like the previous event. That event also announced that there would be a beta for the game to be revealed at a later date. Gallery[]

They exist in the protagonist's cognition. In the real world, the protagonist either knows them, or has met or heard about them, which even he does not necessarily need to have realized.

The method of character obtainment is via a gacha banner system. It is explained that characters obtained in this fashion are cognitive manifestations of the original individual taken from the Sea of Souls, and not the real person. As you obtain duplicates of a character, they will gain Awareness which improves the characters skills and abilities.

Many of these characters also serve as confidants and/or have side quests that the protagonist can do.

Throughout the game's story, there are multiple characters who have no Persona power of their own but appear in the Metaverse in their copyright Thief forms and join the battles. These characters are cognitive manifestations created by Merope in accordance with the following conditions:

In the Japanese demo shown at Tokyo Game Show 2024, the cutscenes were altered to show blood in the protagonist's awakening much like how the awakening in Persona 5 were handled.

Within the Metaverse, Mementos has been entirely overhauled, no longer being procedurally generated and has set regions. Aside from that, most of the Metaverse in general has seen little changes. Thieves Tool crafting is still present and the Palaces function identically to their Persona 5 Royal iterations. There is a mysterious park within the Metaverse that functions somewhat like the Thieves Den, having the ability to be customized.

Lufel points out to Nagisa a former baseball player, Takeyuki Kiuchi, who intentionally rams into women in the subway as a means of attaining his misogynistic desires, and says that in order to stop him, they must enter Kiuchi's palace (a baseball stadium) within the Metaverse and steal his treasure, an object which is the source of warped desires.

After awakening from a nightmare, the protagonist is thrust into a changed world drained of hope... And the new faces he encounters are no less strange: an eloquent owl named Lufel, a long-nosed man and a beauty donned in blue.

Hiromu Miyazawa: A food critic active on TV and on-line channels. Visiting various restaurants, Miyazawa actively gives reviews on the food he eats in his personal show. However, in reality, he is a demanding and conceited man as restaurant owners are forced to give him bribes so that they won't receive negative reviews and he won't take away the restaurants from them.

They also appear within the CrossFate storyline where it is revealed they exist in a parallel world to the protagonist's group of copyright Thieves.

Nagisa and Lufel enter Kiuchi's palace and discover that Motoha also entered the palace, who awakens to her Persona after being verbally berated by a Shadow form of Kiuchi. While traversing through Kiuchi's palace, they discover that Motoha hitting a slider thrown by a Kiuchi, along with a scandal resulting from Kiuchi's purchasing of an escort, forced him off of the baseball team and into an office job, leading to his misogynistic Persona 5 The copyright X desires.

Currently, mission 3 is the longest main story mission content due to had two different major targets within one shared Palace.