Persona 5 Strikers Tips – 13 Things You Need To Know Before Starting

Persona 5 Strikers isn’t your typical musou action game. There are familiar elements like tearing down mobs of enemies in wild “one-versus-100” style combat. But this game takes many of the gameplay mechanics from the Atlus RPG and fuses them with Omega Force’s high-octane action template. Strikers also sticks to its Persona roots by bringing some light life-sim mechanics, but with some tweaks that might take some getting used to. For various reasons, it can be a lot to take in whether this is your first musou game or first Persona experience.

Here, I’ve compiled a list of tips to help guide you through Persona 5 Strikers. While there are plenty of tutorials that establish the basics of the game, figuring out how to best approach the game’s many facets is another challenge. Much of this guide involves the intricacies of being effective in combat, but there are other features you’ll want to use properly like the Bond system and persona fusion.

For more on this action-based adaptation of the iconic RPG, be sure to read my Persona 5 Strikers review, and read about how you can approach the game if you haven’t played Persona 5 before.

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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Up For Preorder

Nintendo announced remakes of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl in its 25th-anniversary stream today: Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will release later this year on Nintendo Switch. The Gen 4 remake games have been on many Pokemon fans’ wishlists for years, offering a chance to go back to the Sinnoh region and start a new adventure with Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup. Though an exact release date hasn’t been announced, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are already up for preorder at Best Buy, and other listings will likely appear soon.

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl preorder bonuses

No preorder bonuses have been announced for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl yet. We’ll include that information here when available.

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Better Call Saul’s Final Season “Likely” To Broadcast Early 2022

AMC Networks chief operating officer Ed Carroll announced on an earnings call that the sixth and final season of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul is “likely” to return in 2022. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this information was mentioned in passing while discussing other network business–though it is no small bit of intel.

Season 5 of Better Call Saul aired its finale in April 2020, which at a glance even folks who aren’t fans can deduce meant the series was heading immediately into delays due to COVID-19. In a Deadline virtual event taking place in August of that year, series co-creator Peter Gould shared, “We were hoping to go into production by the end of the year. It doesn’t seem likely that it’s going to happen with the situation that we are in.”

Even if the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t broken out, it was entirely possible for Better Call Saul would have followed its predecessor Breaking Bad’s trajectory in tackling its final season. Season 5 of Breaking Bad was split into two parts, each consisting of eight episodes–the first eight premiered in July 2012, and the second premiered in August 2013. As Gould and his co-creator partner Vince Gilligan have remarked many times on both series’ companion podcasts, the most important resource on their shows isn’t money, it’s time. But ultimately, delays hopefully mean a better product in the end.

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Pokemon Legends Arceus Preorders Are Live For Nintendo Switch

A brand-new spin on the Pokemon franchise is coming to Nintendo Switch in early 2022. Announced during the latest Pokemon Presents presentation, Pokemon Legends Arceus is an open-world RPG set in the Sinnoh region. While we don’t know much about the game just yet, diehard Pokemon fans can already preorder Pokemon Legends Arceus.

Pokemon Legends Arceus is set in a much earlier time period than the mainline entries. You play as a Pokemon trainer who is compiling Sinnoh’s first Pokedex. Sinnoh’s Pokemon Professor has brought three Pokemon to Sinnoh–Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott–and you get to choose one of them as your partner Pokemon. From there, you head off on an adventure to survey and catch Pokemon. The legendary Pokemon at the center of the story is, of course, Arceus, who is described as an “Alpha Pokemon.”

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Netflix’s Shadow and Bone Cast Break Down the Teaser Trailer’s Biggest Moments

The first teaser trailer for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has arrived, and IGN gave fans an exclusive inside look at the epic new fantasy series as part of IGN Fan Fest. Shadow and Bone is based on author Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling series of “Grishaverse” novels, which have sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide to date.

IGN exclusively revealed the first teaser trailer from the series as part of an in-depth panel and Q&A with Bardugo, showrunner Eric Heisserer, and cast members Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, and Kit Young, uniting the cast and producers for their first public interview about the show.

Watch the cast and creators react to the Shadow and Bone teaser trailer and break down the biggest moments in the video below:

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Here’s how Netflix describes the ambitious new series: “Shadow and Bone finds us in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.”

Shadow and Bone premieres April 23 on Netflix.