Pretty much just FES but better... mostly. Portable looks at all the issues with the character cast and thinks "hm... what if we just fixed every single issue with them, and made the best cast of social links in the franchise?" And so they did. However, in classic Atlus fashion when something great is added something is taken away; in this case it's that the games visuals were stripped down to work with a small portable console and animated cutscenes were removed. I personally still value the changed social links WAY over these downgrades, but I understand why people don't like it. Personally, I recommend playing Reload first, then trying Portable.

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The only decent version of Persona 3 for years. Every criticism I've seen of this game compared to the original has basically been a pro rather than a con.

Visual Novel style? Kinda fits the RPG whose overworld consists of only text. The Answer's not included? Good. No animated cutscenes? Potentially good, I do genuinely think people who see this as a huge loss need to play games other than Persona tho.

The social links for female side are also markedly better than OG's tho I will say whoever wrote Ken's needs to be locked up and I feel like that's an incredibly cold take. But at the end of the day it's still Persona 3, if you wanna play FeMC that bad I'd say just play Q2.