Persona 5 Leak Reveals Unsettling Scene That Was Cut from the Game

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Persona 5 Royal added many new features to the base game. It featured a brand-new Palace, new confidants, a playable party member, and several cutscenes that expanded upon the relationship between the characters. Persona 5 Royal also came out with many gameplay and quality-of-life improvements.

While Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal are massive games, not every idea or piece of content made it to the final release. One of the cut scenes was from the official release of Persona 5 was leaked earlier today. This comes from a user named Faz, who had previously leaked other scenes cut from Persona 5. It takes place late into the game, so players should be wary of spoilers. Some fans considered the final scene out of place, but the unedited version appears much worse.

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This leaked scene from Persona 5 features an unused version of the scene after that takes place after players complete Shido’s palace. To give some background, The Phantom Thieves find it difficult to escape from Shido’s palace after defeating him. Ryuji takes a big risk to ensure their safety, but there is a big explosion before he can join them back in the real world. After returning to the real world, he is not with the team, letting the characters believe he had perished in the explosion. Ryuji returns a short while later and makes a joke about the incident before getting beaten up by a group of angry friends.

The whole scene is bizarre, but the unused draft is probably worse. It features several lines of voiced dialogue with the characters expressing their anger at Ryuji’s actions in Persona 5. As seen in the video, characters behave more extreme and out of character, especially the bit about