I finished Persona 3 Reload last month. I thought it was definitely not as good as Persona 5 (which I still have a fair bit of complains about).

The gameplay loop itself felt much staler than Persona 5’s mostly because of Tartarus. Plus there is that overall weirdness around how the male protagonist is someone who all the female social links “depend on”. I read that this weird aspect has in fact been toned down from the original game where unless you decide to involve yourself in a romantic relationship with the female social links, you can’t max then which… I don’t know what to say about it.

The soundtrack was really good though especially the songs with lyrics in them. Whenever I listen to “Color Your Night” I get close to breaking a tear for personal reasons. I think everyone should listen to “Color Your Night” and “Full Moon Full Night” since they are objectively good songs.

Overall I expected it to be much worse than Persona 5 but it turned out to be not as bad as I had expected.

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I read that this weird aspect has in fact been toned down from the original game where unless you decide to involve yourself in a romantic relationship with the female social links, you can’t max then which… I don’t know what to say about it.

    Yeah, the female route (from the PSP port and controversially not adapted to the remake) adds the innovation of… being able to not romance social links of the opposite sex. Also one of the characters rejects you no matter what. Though of course it has a very controversial romance choice which yea, was a huge L from ATLUS.

    I haven’t played the remake, so I can’t comment on the music, but the best part of Persona 3 has to be the story imo.

    However, in terms of the soundtrack, you can’t beat the atmosphere of Persona 1 on the PS1 in my opinion, even if Persona 3 has a lot of bangers.