It's good. Quality of life features from P4 are a welcome change. liked the game's themes and aesthetic. some social links may not have aged well. Tartarus may not have aged well. memorable soundtrack. FemC route reads like a fanfiction but is overall pretty solid and adds replayability to the game. good times
God I wish Atlus made a clear definite edition of Persona 3, maybe the inevitable Persona 3 Re-Reload will be it. In narrative and atmosphere, P3 is much stronger than 4 or 5 as the last Persona game to maintain some of the dark tones of the parent SMT series, and this version brings some of the QoL features from P4 to make the game a little less punishing (the later games, especially P5R are mechanically more interesting games I'll grant). The original route is still there, and the FeMC route is even better. Given the limitations of the PSP disc, it moves to a visual novel style for the daytime exploration, which didn't bother me, but is a downgrade from the PS2 versions, and loses the animated cutscenes, which is a unfortunate loss. Still a must-play JRPG and one of the best games Atlus has made.
not a fan of this format of persona 3 at all, one of the biggest reasons i love it so much is due to its atmosphere and whilst some of it does remain i feel the non 3d format and lack of animated cutscenes hinders it too much for me to recommend this version of the game to anyone . its also just kinda not engaging at all watching these cutscenes in vn format.