An absolute tear jerker with beautiful emotional moments, incredible, upgraded visuals and impeccable sound. The voice acting is on another level, with line deliveries so good I had to replay them multiple times.
The biggest issue with the original game was Tartarus - the huge single dungeon you gotta traverse during the game. While I still believe it is the low point of the remake as well, they improved it significantly with new additions to keep tartarus visits more dynamic, have fun optional fights and disencourage trying to beat entire sections in one day - even though it still is the optimal way to do it if you want to optimize your social life time, sadly.
The parts that hit hard back then, hit even harder in the remake. They doubled down on everything that was good about the original game.
Persona 3 Reload is everything I could want from a remake, except for the lack of the female protagonist and social links that came with her on Persona 3 Portable - making it so that even now there is no definitive version of Persona 3, my only complaint.
The biggest issue with the original game was Tartarus - the huge single dungeon you gotta traverse during the game. While I still believe it is the low point of the remake as well, they improved it significantly with new additions to keep tartarus visits more dynamic, have fun optional fights and disencourage trying to beat entire sections in one day - even though it still is the optimal way to do it if you want to optimize your social life time, sadly.
The parts that hit hard back then, hit even harder in the remake. They doubled down on everything that was good about the original game.
Persona 3 Reload is everything I could want from a remake, except for the lack of the female protagonist and social links that came with her on Persona 3 Portable - making it so that even now there is no definitive version of Persona 3, my only complaint.