The explanation for the game's "contract" mechanic is similar to that of the Persona 5 Royal DLC boss fights against Makoto Yuki and Yu Narukami in that they are cognitive beings rather than the actual individual.

On his way home from school, Nagisa encounters a talking owl, Lufel. While listening to Lufel, a delivery biker attempts to ram into Nagisa, but Nagisa accidentally brings himself and Lufel to the Metaverse, a supernatural realm representing the unconscious desires of humanity.

As he boards the train, he notices the Metaverse Navigator appear on his phone and the owl from before begins speaking to him. As the protagonist taps the app on his phone, he enters the Metaverse and the owl introduces himself as Lufel. After a scuffle with Shadows, the protagonist awakens his persona and the two fight their way out of Mementos.

The game also features multiple characters that Wonder can interact with in Tokyo using the "Confidant" system.[4] Compared to the main series, it was heavily reworked: the number of ranks has increased, but not every rank results in unique dialogue conversations.

The game’s combat has been simplified a fair bit. For starters, each character’s Persona (or Persona II) have only three skills available. This also applies to the personas the main character acquires. Each party member has two passive skills and Awareness. While One Mores, Baton Passes, Gun Attacks and All-out Attacks all return from the predecessor, they have also been simplified, (with the exception of Gun Attacks). Downing an enemy, rather than allowing a party member to freely act again with any of their available skills, grants the option of either using a single fixed skill—typically (but not always) an attack keyed to their element, or Baton Passing to let an ally do the same.

There are two different stories happening around the same time, the main story and CrossFates. The main story entails the protagonist, Lufel and their team of copyright Thieves exploring the Metaverse for a singular goal, figuring out what is causing everyone to lose their desires.

[seis] It takes the form of a tunnel submerged in a sea, and it is occupied by Igor and his assistant, Merope. Igor cites Nagisa's knowledge of choice as his reason for bringing him to the Velvet Room. Nagisa wakes up in the classroom.

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 Persona 5 The copyright X 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 desires.

On his way to school the following day, Nagisa meets with his classmate Motoha Arai and her best friend, Tomoko Noge, who aspires to play baseball professionally after Motoha abruptly quit baseball. Tomoko saves Motoha from being rammed by Kiuchi, but she herself is thrown onto the tracks, preventing her from playing baseball. Motoha resolves to change Kiuchi's heart.

Much of the gameplay takes direct reference from Persona 5, where the protagonist will live a dual life between spending time in the real world, as well as roaming and fighting in the Metaverse. The game does not follow a calendar system; the protagonist's free time in the city is only limited by a special currency taking the form of hourglasses.

Most of these targets tend to have their crimes heavily watered down compared to those from the original Persona 5, with crimes mostly arranging from public indecency or financial extortion.

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.

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.

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The developers describe the content like this: “This game contains depictions of copyright and violence against children in some scenes.”

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[]