• new party member; kasumi yoshizawa, a gymnast in ren's year (codename currently unknown).
  
• new confidant; takuto maruki, shujin academy's student counselor.
  
• new unnamed blue-haired character, speculated to be a human morgana.
  
• new area; kichijoji, contains a market.
  
• confidants or party members can now post pictures in phone conversations.
  
• you can now play darts and pool with your team as a pastime in a building known as the penguin sniper.
  
• ryuji and makoto have new mugshots for conversations.
  
• new menu options are available in a battle-style popup, allowing you to quick travel to the hideout, connect to the network, "co-op assist" or "status assist".
  
• new confidant area, an aquarium, is available. it is shown that both yusuke and kasumi can be taken there.
  
• the game is now in 4k.
  
• a new comic book styled "intro" sequence is shown (not confirmed if that is the intro).
  
• joker can use a grappling hook.
  
• more animated cutscenes are present.
  
• caroline and justine can now be taken outside of the velvet room.
  

• somehow i forgot to mention this before, but new main theme, colours flying high!
  
• kasumi's persona is confirmed to be cendrillon (french translation of "cinderella").
  
• the new blue haired character is now confirmed to be human morgana, as he has been seen in the same bed as ren/the protagonist.
  
• takuto maruki seems to be a "school-based insider" for the phantom thieves, not unlike sojiro sakura.
  
• dual attacks return from persona 4, confirmed duos being haru and morgana, ryuji and makoto.
  
• the game is to have at least 20 new songs added to the ost.
  
• joker can use the grappling hook to get a preemptive strike on an enemy.
  
• costumes and outfits can be bought with in-game yen, but some costumes, such as the velvet room outfits, are locked to DLC.
  
• the velvet room can go into a psuedo-lockdown mode, changing the fusing mechanics.
  
• goro akechi is said to have some story changes.
  
• there is now a theater mode to watch cutscenes.
  
• it has been speculated that the confidants will have more to do with the story, such as mueshai iwai giving ren/protagonist insider information on topics crucial to the phantom thieves.
  
• kasumi's confidant is the faith arcana, and unlike literally every other confidant, she only has five ranks. these ranks unlock some special skills for the phantom thieves, like the grappling hook.
  
• special cutscenes with takuto maruki and ryuji/ann reveal some tidbits about their personalities.
  
• new treasures in the shape of skulls can be found in the palaces, and finding all three in a palace will upgrade a party member drastically, like giving ryuji the ability to learn dia (small healing to one party member), which was never possible in vanilla p5.
  
• special shadows can appear that have special conditions, like countering every so often. there are special ways to defeat these.
  
• last surprise returns, but if you ambush a shadow, a new music track called takeover will play instead. this applies to every battle except midbosses (which play keeper of lust) and bosses (which play blooming villain).
  
• kasumi is precious.
  

• some characters have two different portraits for conversations, while in vanilla p5 there was only one that shows multiple expressions.
  
• third tier personas now exist, and are created by fusing the party member's original and second tier personas. none are confirmed, but ryuji's persona is "william". which william? we'll have to wait.
  
• team attacks are extremely expressive and strong, ryuji and yusuke's are a in a restaurant where ryuji's eating is interrupted and they use a gun and grenade to finish them off.
  
• ryuji can be taken to a theme park.
  
• new story for ryuji's confidant was teased with ryuji whispering about being scouted by a university.
  

Spoiler

• there's a common and popular theory that this game will have "dream stealing", the thief being the suspicious kasumi yoshizawa. how this will work, we have no idea.
  
• it's also noted that kasumi may have wavering allegiance to the phantom thieves, since in the latest trailer (livestreamed a couple of hours ago) she is (from what i can see) given a choice to kill joker or a shadow attacking him.
  
• she has a MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION WHAAAAAAT
  
• many characters, who in the original game were either in hospital or straight up dead, are now alive and present in this game, including but not limited to, wakaba isshki (futaba's mother), shiho suzui (ann's best friend who attempted suicide at the start of the game), kunikazu okumura (haru's hostile father, who has a palace), and most notably, crow, also known as goro akechi (the detective rival who joins your party, but eventually goes insane and tries to kill you).
  
• goro in particular has another appearance when you encounter him in masayoshi shido's palace to match his true persona, loki, and it's shown that goro survives and is playable in this form.
  
• the party all have new third tier personas, all with the theme of being modern appearances of the original personas, and the names being their identities. for example, ryuji's persona is captain kidd, and the third tier persona is william, kidd's real name. ann and morgana's third tier personas are celestine and diego respectively.
  
• a new character by the name of josé appears in mementos. currently i have no clue what his role is, but i speculate that he might be related to the velvet room attendants in some way, but that's probably a stretch.
  
• the final sequence of the game seems to be a LOT more dynamic than before, with a scene where makoto drives morgana and the others to safety while mementos breaks the world apart, and joker literally running on the rising broken parts of the ground what the hell is going on?
  

(08-02-2019, 02:24 PM)Vert Wrote: >last surprise returns, but if you ambush a shadow, a new music track called takeover will play instead
LAME. Last Surprise is God Tier.