However, the re-release of Royal on multiple platforms – PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PC – takes things to another level for a variety of reasons.

The game has found new and stunning levels of portability by making the jump to the Nintendo Switch, the Xbox Series X/S (via Xbox’s cloud gaming platform) and PC (via the Steam Deck). Over the last six years, I’ve burned weekend upon weekend sitting on my couch playing Persona 5. Now, I can do it on planes, on the train, and anywhere I want to play the title.

We’ll get to that in a moment, but first the basics of why Persona 5 is spectacular, and it starts with a terrific story and an excellent battle system.

At its core, Persona 5 is like most JRPGs, delivering a turn-based battling experience and letting you traverse some sort of open world.

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But no RPG creates levels to the turn-based experience quite like Persona. As the game goes on, you gradually learn ever more wrinkles, speaking to enemies to get them to join your team, and using their abilities to augment those of key characters.

Monster-fusing becomes a big (and terrifically enjoyable) part of this game, as you combine enemies who’ve joined your fight into more and more vicious assistants.

That core gameplay is augmented by a terrific story: you play as Joker, a character who’s been in some trouble in recent years and, as a result, has had to transfer to a different school.

Eventually, you form a team of heroes known as the Phantom Thieves, who essentially head into the minds of some questionable people, battling their inner consciousnesses and eventually pushing them to confess back in the “real world”.

It’s Inception, video-game style, and with a little more conscience, too. The game regularly finds ways to make you wonder if what you’re doing is right.

In between all this battling, you play the part of the student, buying books from a local bookstore, cleaning your room and answering legitimately hard trivia questions in class.

You also build relationships with your team (if you so choose, that is) and, in classic JRPG fashion, maybe push toward a romance.

It was a perfectly balanced JRPG six years ago, and with its re-release, it somehow becomes even more flawless. That’s in part because the Switch and Xbox consoles permit you to play Persona 5 on the go.

The Nintendo Switch version is impressive, to say the least. Not all games translate flawlessly to the Switch, but Persona 5 makes the move perfectly.

There’s nary a frame-rate drop-off, and the visuals are as crisp and clear as what I remember from the PlayStation 4 version I’ve been playing for years. Sound is great too.

And especially on the Switch OLED, the action is vibrant and easy to follow, even on the small screen. That’s courtesy of the details and excellently drawn characters and villains, each of whom jump to life.

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Sure, on some phones, this won’t play out well, but on the Fold, I can see everything, especially when paired with a controller (removing the on-screen controls from the equation).

It’s an experience I’ve rapidly grown addicted to, a satisfying way to game that I never thought possible.

It all adds up to an even more complete JRPG experience than the already masterful Persona 5 Royal. For six years, this has been the finest, most addictive JRPG experience out there.

By bringing it to PC, Switch and Xbox, Atlus and Sega managed to make it even better.