Persona, Monster Hunter, the big PS5 game of the week!
Game News Persona, Monster Hunter, the big PS5 game of the week!
Every week, tons of games come out on the PS5, and as you know, it’s often hard to find your way around. This is where JV’s editorial staff comes in. So, which titles are worth watching between January 16 and 22, 2023, on Sony’s console? Here’s our pick.
Persona 3 Handheld / Persona 4 Golden
We’re starting with a series you need to know, even if Japanese RPGs aren’t really your thing: it’s Persona, the fifth episode of which recently arrived in the Royal version on PC consoles. This time, Atlus studio and SEGA publisher invite you to (re)discover two previous parts, namely Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, respectively released on PSP and PlayStation Vita in 2011 and 2013! The first, like Persona 5, follows the story of a high school student who discovers “The Dark Hour”, a moment between two days when the inhabitants turn into monsters. For the second, direct the village of Inaba in Japan, while a series of murders terrorize the inhabitants. In both cases, it is necessary alternate between everyday life and mystery, based on adventures and turn-based battles! They are judged as amazing gaming games.
- Release Date : January 19, 2023
- Platform(s): PS4 (Backwards compatible with PS5)
A Space for the Unbound
In a different genre, here is A Space for the Unbound, a narrative adventure game set rural Indonesia in the 1990s (which is rare enough to be underlined). The idea, “a story about how to overcome anxiety, depression”, can we find out in a press release, but also interested in the relationship of two high school sweethearts, Atma | Raya, endowed with supernatural powers. Throughout the adventure: therefore we will get to know them, observe their reaction to the awakening of this unique ability, follow their exploration and their investigation of the city. The ‘Mojiken’ team even talks about “the end of the world” and a system to “dive into people’s minds”. In addition to a good artistic direction: the game seems well equipped to be a nice surprise.
- Release Date : January 19, 2023
- Platform(s): PS4 (Backwards compatible with PS5)
A Matter of Principle
We continue with a software like no other, because it is not a video game strictly speaking but an interactive historical comic strip. It is called “A Matter of Principle” (hence “A question of principle”, in French) and the DillyFrame team offers here to immerse you in one of the most publicized events of the 20th century: the death of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian Prince Gavrilo. This is the triggering event of the First World War… “If you’re not familiar with the story of Gavrilo Princip and Franz Ferdinand, this will be the most fascinating history lesson of your life” assures the studio! As the adventure continues, you’ll learn more about the two characters and this event, thanks to interactive votes.
- Release Date : January 19, 2023
- Platform(s): PS4 (Backwards compatible with PS5)
the monster hunter rose
Two years after the first release on Nintendo Switch, one year after passing to PC, it’s time for Monster Hunter Rise to conquer other machines. From January 20, it will be available on PS4 and PS5 (plus Xbox with Game Pass). The concept: you probably know it, hunt and then fight huge creatures in open areas, like Monster Hunter World, collect lots of items and weapons to customize by species. Here, the story is reduced to the strict minimum, it is the stages of the game and the gameplay that comes first. Moreover, as long as we are talking about this last point, Rise is betting on a more vertical strategy | dynamic with the addition of “Filoptera”, insect-grapple that allows you to make a whole group of movements suspended in the air.
- Release Date : January 20, 2023
- Platform(s): PS4, PS5
OmegaBot
After Monster Hunter Rise, you want more action? Then you should take a look OmegaBot, coming to PS4 soon (so PS5 thanks to backward compatibility)! It’s simple: it’s an action-platform game seen from the side, in the skin of a small robot. “Avoid metal dangers, get powerful weapons – and fight your way through a destroyed world” we can find out in a press release. In this one, we can also read that developer Simon Carni puts particular emphasis on “hidden secrets”, and that boss fights are “challenging”. Above all, the root of the war here seems to be energy of your character, which decreases every time you make an attack. So be careful not to be too greedy. It makes you want to.
- Release Date : January 20, 2023
- Platform(s): PS4 (Backwards compatible with PS5)
