I'm interested in Persona 5 Royal. Do I need the context of other Persona games?

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CaptainStrong posted...
Persona 3 Portable came out on the PSP.

A waaaay different release of the game yes. The PSP couldnt handle most of the 3D environments so they removed all of them except for the dungeon and replaced them with a storybook style of gameplay. Each location is a page with an assortment of interactable points that represent locations you can enter or characters you can talk to. Its radically different just to fit it in the small screen. As a bonus they added a female playable character option too.
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