Persona 3: Reload is a rerelease of Persona 3 with a little bit of Persona 3:FES and Persona 3:Portable mixed in. This means that Persona 3: Reload at the time of writing is the new 3rd option when it comes to "Which version of Persona 3 is the Best Version to play?" Which is a shame. We're slowly reaching 2 decades of this argument and we still don't have a definitive answer purely because Atlus keeps doing Atlus stuff.
And it's that which keeps it down in my eyes. This should be radiant and praised and it has been! And I agree with everything everyone's saying for the most part! The music is pretty good in my opinion, the game looks stunning, the combat is fluid and fast, the new Tartarus is amazing, every social link being fully voiced is lovely, and the new systems that were added or back ported from 5 are phenomenal in this!
And yet! We're missing significant content from this release that keeps it from being the Definitive Version! We don't have the Answer, the absurdly decisive epilogue to the story that, like it's difficulty or not, is crucial for understanding what's going on in everyone's heads and why they joined the fight. And we don't have Fem!Protag, Atlus's dark horse persona character who gets as much attention as P1 and P2 do. I swear the put her in PQ2 to get everyone's hopes up then completely abandoned that arc because it would be even funnier to not finish it.
Genuinely, this is an amazing rerelease through and through. But it won't be a 5 star S Tier game until Atlus gets off their ass and finishes the content everyone's been waiting for. Even Akihiko's been waiting for this.
And it's that which keeps it down in my eyes. This should be radiant and praised and it has been! And I agree with everything everyone's saying for the most part! The music is pretty good in my opinion, the game looks stunning, the combat is fluid and fast, the new Tartarus is amazing, every social link being fully voiced is lovely, and the new systems that were added or back ported from 5 are phenomenal in this!
And yet! We're missing significant content from this release that keeps it from being the Definitive Version! We don't have the Answer, the absurdly decisive epilogue to the story that, like it's difficulty or not, is crucial for understanding what's going on in everyone's heads and why they joined the fight. And we don't have Fem!Protag, Atlus's dark horse persona character who gets as much attention as P1 and P2 do. I swear the put her in PQ2 to get everyone's hopes up then completely abandoned that arc because it would be even funnier to not finish it.
Genuinely, this is an amazing rerelease through and through. But it won't be a 5 star S Tier game until Atlus gets off their ass and finishes the content everyone's been waiting for. Even Akihiko's been waiting for this.