While many Persona 5 players’ hearts were stolen by badass biker Makoto, starting a romantic relationship with a fellow Phantom Thief felt too much like dating a colleague to me. Our relationship grew closer, more intimate, slowly budding into a fragile high school romance. I supported her, silently intervening to help with her troubles. Eventually she grew to trust me, confiding her difficult relationship with her mother and the pressures she felt as a high-profile shogi player. Evening after evening I would return, and evening after evening Hifumi taught me. She became my instructor, teaching me strategy through the Japanese board game and unwittingly sharpening my combat skills. I first met Hifumi Togo in a quiet Kanda church, a peaceful sanctuary she often visited to practice shogi. Both Iwai’s airsoft shop and Tae’s medical clinic were closed.Īnd there was no sign of Hifumi, my beautiful shogi queen. But I had no idea how my former teacher Kawakami was. Café Leblanc’s curry king Sojiro was still around, allowing me to reclaim my makeshift bedroom in the shop’s attic. However, after the initial excitement of our reunion died down, I began to wonder about my friends who didn’t moonlight as mind criminals. Reunited in Persona 5 Strikers, our gang of merry misfits were now taking our show on the road, driving across Japan to apply unsolicited mental recalibration to a new batch of unsuspecting targets - and dive into some new hack-and-slash gameplay. There's no way that doesn't change the trajectory of your life in some way.įortunately, none of them seemed particularly traumatised by the experience. We had spent an entire year supernaturally invading cruel adults' minds, our mismatched gang of misunderstood teens literally fighting the dark desires inside people and forcing them to repent. I was curious to see what they’d gotten up to in my absence, and how our experiences together might have impacted them. Though only six months had passed for them since we attacked and dethroned god, I hadn’t properly spent time with our ragtag group in three years (barring one weird dancing fever dream). I was more eager to catch up with my friends and fellow Phantom Thieves: Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, Morgana - even Ryuji. I’ll admit, Hifumi wasn’t at the forefront of my mind when I first returned to the world of turn-based Japanese roleplaying game Persona 5. Where is my girlfriend and what have you done with her? OK Persona 5 Strikers, I’m giving you one chance to come clean.
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