Before you start playing Persona 5, a video game about stylish teens learning how to take care of a cat, you need to answer a simple question: Do you agree that the game is fictional?
If you say no, Persona 5 wonāt joke around or repeat the question. It just wonāt allow you to play. (Of course, you can just start a new game again right afterwardsāitās not going to lock you out permanently.)
These days, to preempt lawsuits, a lot of video games start off with messages like that. āHey guys, this is fiction, so itās just a coincidence if your name is also Kratos and you also murder lots of harpies.ā But itās not common for a game to deny you access until youāve agreed that itās fictional, which is a very Persona thing to do.
Although maybe what Atlus really shouldāve done is made you promise not to stream