Persona 6

Persona 6 is the seventh installment in the Persona series of games, it is developed by Atlus alongside AlpacaSoft, and is set for release on the Playstation 4 Pro in the summer of 2020
The game takes place in the Japanese city of Nishimoto, a bustling city where suicides are alarmingly common, so the protagonist, Mitsuro Yoishi, must find out the cause of this with his Persona and his friends.
== Plot ==
Main Article: Persona 6/Plot
The game is set in the fictional city known as Nishimoto, to which Mitsuro Yoichi (who may also be named by the player) moves alongside his mother, Katagiri, and little sister, Oniko. They settle into their new house and, the next day, Mitsuro heads to his new high school, where he meets one Kotaro Uematsu, who he becomes good friends with.
One day, Kotaro wants to go to Mitsuro's house, have a type of sleepover, as they sleep after their night of playing games and chatting, Mitsuro awakens in a burning building, completely different from his room or house in general, a weird-looking dark Kotaro with bright yellow eyes approaches Mitsuro and attacks him, he then wakes up the next day and talks to Kotaro, who mentions having a dream about his childhood home being on fire, which he thinks is connected to the house fire that killed his mother, he also mentions seeing someone looking just like Mitsuro in there, leaving the protagonist to wonder if he truly went into Kotaro's dream in some way.
The next day, they have another sleepover, but Mitsuro sleeps with a baseball bat in hands. Sure enough, he awakens in the burning building again, he explores further into the flaming house and meets the weird Kotaro from the other night, who turns into a human made entirely of fire, which calls itself Kotaro's "Shadow" who fights Mitsuro, but he is victorious and defeats "Shadow Kotaro", freeing Kotaro from his nightmares about his burning house and allowing him to use his Persona, Barbatos. So begins their quest to save their friends and the parallel world of Psyche from the Shadows affecting them all.
== Gameplay ==
Persona 6 isn't that different from other games in the series in terms of gameplay, there are two main halves to the game, the overworld and the alternate world, in this case, Psyche.
=== Overworld ===
In the overworld, the game takes the form of a social simulator, where the player can interact with other characters and live the main character's life, making different choices and attending different events, like school field trips, vacation trips, etc.
The main mechanic of the overworld section connects to the alternate world, which is the Social Links mechanic, where Mitsuro can interact with different characters and be their friend. The stronger a person's Social Link is, better Personas can be created for Mitsuro to use, and if the Social Link character is a party member, their Persona grows stronger as well.
Below is a full list of the characters for the Social Links, along with their arcana. Bold is a party member, Italics is an automatic link, that's grown without the need to really focus on it:
* The Fool: Dream Catchers
* The Magician: Konuma Takeshira
* The High Priestess: Katagiri Yoishi
* The Empress: Oniko Yoishi
* The Emperor: Kotaro Uematsu
* The Hierophant: Izumi Fujinaka
* The Lovers: Fukuda Misoka & Juichi Yoshihama
* The Chariot: Yoki Katano
* More TBA
* The Hanged Man: Roku Yamagata
* Death: TBA
* Temperance: Amelia
* More TBA
* The Moon: Kayumi
* The Sun: Sakura Matsuda
* Judgement: Igor
* The World: People of Nishimoto (Maxed out in the final battle of the game)
=== Psyche ===
Psyche is the alternate dimension of the game, a world existing in the collective minds of the people of the world, the protagonists, who call themselves Dream Catchers, are able to enter someone else's dream and fight off their Shadow to stop it from driving the person to suicide with the bad dreams and memories.
It's in this world that the game takes the form of a proper RPG, with stats, special abilities, enemies and bosses. While in Psyche, the characters are helped out by the rabbit, Kayumi, who becomes a party member later on. In Psyche, the characters are able to use their Personas, ghostly demons that appear to help their user, Personas have many different skills to use in battle. Depending on the character's Persona, they have a certain weakness to certain elemental attacks, and the same goes for enemies, who also have weaknesses. Mitsuro has somewhat of an advantage, being the only one able to change Personas at any time.
In battle, there are two main stats measured, HP (Hit Points) and SP (Special Points). If HP hits 0, the character falls and cannot be used unless they are revived or the battle ends soon after, in which case they are automatically revived, if all characters fall, it's Game Over. SP is simply how much power one has to use a Persona's special skils, if it runs out, it can be refilled with certain items or by using a save point, which also refills HP.
== Characters ==
=== Protagonists ===
Name 	Arcana 	Details
Main Character (Mitsuro Yoishi)	0 - The Fool 	A boy with glasses and messy, green-ish hair, he often wears baggy sports shirts and jeans. His personality isn't pre-decided, as he is supposed to be a template for the player.
Main Character (Mitsuro Yoishi)	0 - The Fool 	Mitsuro's starting Persona is Lucio and his ultimate is Satanas.
Konuma Takeshira 	I - The Magician 	Konuma is a blond girl with long pigtails who always wears her school uniform, she is very sweet and kind but easily angered.
Konuma Takeshira 	I - The Magician 	Konuma's starting Persona is Agares and her ultimate is Astaroth.
Kotaro Uematsu 	IV - The Emperor 	Kotaro is a tough-looking boy with blonde, spiky hair who wears his school uniform as a jacket over a checkered shirt, he looks mean, but he's actually quite kind and respectful.
Kotaro Uematsu 	IV - The Emperor 	Kotaro's starting Persona is Barbatos and his ultimate is Beelzebub.
Izumi Fujinaka 	V - The Hierophant	A girl with short, naturally black hair that she prefers dyed purple, she used to be very outgoing, but became a complete shut-in after her incident.
Izumi Fujinaka 	V - The Hierophant	Izumi's starting Persona is Behemoth and her ultimate is Leviathan.
Yoki Katano 	VII - The Chariot 	Yoki is a boy with ginger hair who usually wears a white muscle shirt under his uniform, his left arm is a prosthetic due to his car accident. He prefers to only talk about things he likes, and avoid whatever he doesn't
Yoki Katano 	VII - The Chariot 	Yoki's starting Persona is Ifrit and his ultimate is Gamygyn
Kayumi 	XVIII - The Moon 	Kayumi is a small rabbit who lives in Psyche, she has no memories or bad experiences of her own, but is very kind and carefree.
Kayumi 	XVIII - The Moon 	Kayumi's starting Persona is Belial and her ultimate is Beleth
Sakura Matsuda 	XIX - The Sun 	Sakura is a girl with glasses and long, black hair, she wears a red hoodie and a black skirt. Sakura used to steal many things, but she stopped after she ended up killing an old lady by taking her purse.
Sakura Matsuda 	XIX - The Sun 	Sakura's starting Persona is Incubus and her ultimate is Gorgon.
=== Antagonists ===
Name 	Details
Benkei Ishihara	A killer who believes he does the horrible things he does for the sake of the people around him, when really, it's just for himself. He is a man in his 30s with a beanie and torn clothes.
Benkei Ishihara	He has no Persona, but Benkei is fought as his Shadow form, Abaddon, in the dungeon Oniko's Haven
Yasotaro Dokuro	A long deceased serial killer who once terrorized Nishimoto, he is the form chosen by Mnemosyne to torment all of the people in the city. He is a pale man with white hair and a black suit.
Yasotaro Dokuro	In the first battle with Dokuro, he can use his "Persona" Mnemosyne, in the second battle, his supposed Shadow form is fought.
Mnemosyne 	The main villainess of the game, she is a beautiful woman with purple robes and a pink aura emanating from her. Her goal is to keep humanity trapped in their past, never moving on from their sins and tragedies.
Mnemosyne 	Mnemosyne has no Persona, but she can transform into her true form, the Goddess of Memory, which she does after her first defeat at the hands of the Dream Catchers.
=== Others ===
Name 	Arcana 	Details
Igor 	XX - Judgement 	An odd man with a suit and a long nose, he is seemingly never apart from his assistant.
Igor 	XX - Judgement 	Igor runs the Velvet Room, a place beyond Psyche and the physical world where the player may fuse Personas and see the list of Personas he has created or obtained.
Amelia 	XIV - Temperance 	A woman with long hair and a blue dress with odd patterns on it, she is Igor's assistant in the Velvet Room.
Amelia 	XIV - Temperance 	Amelia holds the Persona Compendium, the list of all the Personas the player has, and can be fought after the main game, if the player chooses to. She can also be interacted with to raise the Temperance Social Link.
Katagiri Yoishi 	II - The High Priestess	Mitsuro's mother, she is a woman with brown hair and who often wears animal-themed shirts, she very mcuh cares for her children and their safety.
Katagiri Yoishi 	II - The High Priestess	Mitsuro can talk, watch TV and go shopping with Katagiri to raise the High Priestess Social Link.
Oniko Yoishi 	III - The Empress 	Oniko is Mitsuro's little sister, she is often quiet, wears a baby blue dress and has her hair in a ponytail.
Oniko Yoishi 	III - The Empress 	If Mitsuro decides to spend time with Oniko, playing with her dolls, watching cartoons, among other things, the Empress Social Link will grow. Shadow Oniko is also fought in the dungeon Oniko's Haven.
Fukuda Misoka & Juichi Yoshihama	VI - The Lovers 	Fukuda and Juichi are two teachers from Mitsuro's high school, Fukuda wears all pink and red clothing while Juichi likes to wear all green.
Fukuda Misoka & Juichi Yoshihama	VI - The Lovers 	The Lovers Social Link is strengthened when Mitsuro helps the two of them come together, until they get married in the game's best ending.
Roku Yamagata 	XII - The Hanged Man 	An odd boy with a red and white shirt and blue, spiky hair, he killed his brother over a misunderstanding they had in the past. He is the only non-protagonist character fought as a Shadow boss.
Roku Yamagata 	XII - The Hanged Man 	Shadow Roku is found at the end of the dungeon Legend of Roku as the area's boss. Mitsuro can spend time with him afterwards to build the Hanged Man Social Link.
 	 	
 	 	
== Personas ==
Main Article: Persona 6/Personas
Personas are the titular and main method of combat used by the protagonists in their travels throughout Psyche, they are summoned when a character tightly holds something relating to their past tragedy (Yoki's left, prosthetic arm or Mitsuro's last family picture before his father was arrested) Personas have their own elemental strengths and weaknesses, along with different special skills and abilities.
== Enemies ==
Main Article: Persona 6/Beastiary
Persona 6 has a variety of different enemies and mini-bosses, all matching their respective dungeons, the page above lists all of them by dungeon.
== Bosses ==
In the game, the protagonists fight Shadows in the world of Psyche, Shadows are malevolent demons possessing the dream counterparts of the characters and forcing them to think of their traumatic past until they commit suicide.
Name 	Details
Shadow Kotaro 	Kotaro's Shadow is a being that, physically, looks exactly like him, but it is made entirely out of fire, it and its dungeon, Burning Household, represent the house fire that took Kotaro's mother one year before the game's events. Shadow Kotaro uses basic fire spells and can be very easily defeated.
Shadow Konuma 	Konuma Takeshira's Shadow is a tall, blue humanoid with no face and clouds covering its chest and groin areas, it wields two swords that resemble crosses. The memory represented is when Konuma was blackmailed with revealing pictures of herself and the girls who had the pictures sent them to everyone either way. Shadow Konuma's dungeon is Wakatsuki Plaza.
Shadow Izumi 	One night in the past, Izumi was caught by three men in an alley way who abused her, her Shadow from is a three-headed naked man, its three masked heads are constantly talking about who does what to Izumi first or next. Shadow Izumi is found in the dungeon Hanzai Alleys.
Shadow Yoki 	Yoki Katano's Shadiow form is a plastic mannequin that dresses just like him, it represents that Yoki doesn't feel like a true person, what with his arm being a plastic prosthetic. This boss is found in the Scrapyard, because what got Yoki like this was a car crash. Shadow Yoki's main attack is a curse that slowly turns a party member into a mannequin, one turn at a time.
Shadow Kayumi 	Kayumi's Shadow form is a destructive monster with no motivation or reason behind its existance, reflecting the fact that Kayumi has no memories of her own. Shadow Kayumi is an amorphous black flame that can copy the appearence and abilities of the protagonists' Personas. It is found in the dungeon the Abyss.
Shadow Roku 	Shadow Roku is based on the action that got Roku Yamagata into a mental institution, killing his own brother, it is a Siamese monsster with a side representing Roku, which holds a massive knife, and another representing his brother, which holds a large shield. It is found in the dungeon Legend of Roku.
Shadow Sakura 	Sakura's Shadow form is based on the time when she stole an old lady's purse, which contained the woman's important medication, which caused her to die before Sakura could do anything. It takes the form of an elderly Sakura in side of a giant, transparent pill and is found in the dungeon St. Sasori Hospital.
Abaddon 	Benkei Ishihara's Shadow form is a monstrous serpent with a crown of thorns and several golden, spiked rings piercing its body, representing how he thinks he's a righteous man but is actually a monster. Abaddon is fought at the end of Oniko's Haven. This boss cannot be beaten, the player can attack, but Abaddon will simply destroy the protagonists.
Shadow Oniko 	Shadow Oniko stops the fight between the protagonists and Abaddon by destroying the latter in one single move, she then takes the form of a massive, rotting bust of Oniko's and Mitsuro's father, with chains pulling his jaw and eyes wide open, representing how he ruined their lives and she thinks he's literally rotting in jail.
Yasotaro Dokuro 	Yasotaro appears in the final dungeon, Psyche's Depths, his battle room resembles a massive prison block that seemingly goes on eternally upwards, Yasotaro confronts Mitsuro and the Dream Catchers with his own "Persona", Mnemosyne, but he seems to be invincible, leading to the protagonists' defeat and the revelation that Dokuro had nothing to do with this, it was merely Mnemosyne using someone that the population of Nishimoto feared to unravel her plans.
Euterpe 	One of the daughters of Mnemosyne, she is the muse of music, she begins as a beatiful angel, but soon transforms into an amalgamation of musical instruments that attacks the heroes with different types of songs. Euterpe and her sisters are fought in Yume Nishimoto.
Thalia 	Thalia is one of the daughters of Mnemosyne, she is the muse of comedy, she appears as a woman in golden robes but transforms into a Buddha-like head with two faces, one representing comedy (smiling) and the other representing tragedy (frowning) This form simply casts buff and debuffs, letting her minions do the attacking.
Urania 	Urania is the muse of astronomy and one of Mnemosyne's daughters, she transforms into a Saturn-like planetoid with many elemental moons, which do the attacking and healing for her.
"Shadow Dokuro" 	Dokuro's supposed Shadow form is a corpse in a glass ball encased in purple branches and roots, the branches do all of the attacking, by firing lasers and spells at the protagonists. Upon being defeated, Shadow Dokuro's glass sphere falls and shatters, with the roots above and below it taking the form of Mnemosyne.
Mnemosyne 	Mnemosyne is a woman wearing purple robes, she attacks with unique and powerful spells, but can be easily defeated if the characters are at high enough levels.
Goddess of Memories, Mnemosyne	Mnemosyne's true form is that of a massive silver monster with purple markings all around its body, it has many powerful attacks, including its finisher, Annihilation of Memory, which wipes out most of Mitsuro's party, except for Mitsuro himself, who proceeds to awaken his ultimate Persona, Satanas, and finish the battle.
Amelia 	Amelia can be fought as an extra boss after beating the main game, she has her own Persona, Aphrodite, which can use all types of different spells to try and defeat Mitsuro. Defeating her completes the Temperance Social Link, no matter at what level it is at the time of the fight.
== Dungeons ==
TBA
== Gallery ==
Persona 6 Beleth.png|Artwork of Kayumi's ultimate Persona, Beleth
== Quotes ==
TBA
== Trivia ==
* In the original version of the game, the Shadows represented a person's greatest fears and the alternate dimension was the Abyss, a world at the bottom of a sinkhole, but that was all completely changed.
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