Embarking on a New Game Plus (NG+) in Persona 5 Royal allows you to carry over sificant progress, making subsequent playthroughs more efficient and enabling you to achieve goals that might have been missed the first time around. Understanding what carries over and what needs to be re-earned is key to maximizing this experience.
What Carries Over:
- Player Level: Your character's level remains the same, meaning you start with your accumulated stats and HP/SP.
- Persona Compendium: All Personas you've registered in the Compendium are available for re-summoning, though you'll need to pay the in-game currency (Yen) to do so. This allows you to immediately access powerful Personas you've fused.
- Money (Yen): All your accumulated Yen carries over, allowing you to purchase powerful equipment, items, and Personas from the start.
- Key Items: Certain key items, such as those related to Confidants or special abilities, may carry over.
- Social Stats: Your Knowledge, Guts, Proficiency, Kindness, and Charm stats are retained. This is incredibly beneficial for maxing out Confidants quickly, as many require specific social stat levels.
- Confidant Progress (Partial): While Confidant ranks themselves do not carry over, the ability to rank them up is sificantly accelerated due to retained social stats and the ability to spend time more efficiently. You will need to re-initiate each Confidant relationship.
- Equipment: Your equipped weapons, armor, and accessories carry over.
- Items: Most consumable items carry over.
What Needs to Be Re-Earned/Re-done:
- Confidant Ranks: You must re-establish and rank up each Confidant from Rank 1. However, due to your high social stats, this is much faster.
- Palace Progress: You will need to re-clear all Palaces and defeat their bosses.
- Mementos Progress: Mementos will be reset, and you'll need to progress through it again.
- Will Seeds: All Will Seeds within Palaces must be collected again.
- Quests: Mementos requests will need to be re-completed.
- Skill Cards: While you might have collected many, they are consumables and will need to be re-obtained if used.
Maximizing Your NG+ Experience:
- Focus on Missed Goals: Use NG+ to achieve any trophies you missed, max out Confidants you didn't complete, or collect all items.
- Experiment with Builds: With access to powerful Personas and resources, experiment with different Persona builds and party compositions.
- Speedrun Palaces: Knowing the layouts and boss strategies, you can clear Palaces much faster.
- Prioritize Key Confidants: Focus on Confidants that unlock powerful skills or items early on.
NG+ is your opportunity to refine your experience, tackle challenges with newfound ease, and achieve the ultimate completion of Persona 5 Royal.