I think this is about as perfect of a remake as I could have hoped for.
Persona 3 was my introduction to Persona and MegaTen as a whole. This remake had so much live up to for me because of how sincerely special P3 is to me even though I've long since beaten many games that have given me equal or greater inspiration to live and make the most out of my life.
It's simply great. Sure, I can talk about how the horror vibe is basically completely missing from the anime cutscenes, nothing's gonna beat the sheer artistic perfection of those things; there's also the fact that for some reason people really despise the new Mass Destruction or Unavoidable Battle (even though I personally love them, and I was one of those people who felt really off put by the sheer lack of the original P3's vibe once this game was revealed, music included).
But honestly, none of that truly matters. This game improved on the original in basically every aspect: gameplay, voice acting, visuals, accessibility, they truly loved the original game and did their utmost in order to make a remake that could surpass the original. And honestly, yeah, I'd play this over FES and Portable any day of the century. It's truly perfect.
(I also beat the super boss without Orpheus Telos so suck on that).
Persona 3 was my introduction to Persona and MegaTen as a whole. This remake had so much live up to for me because of how sincerely special P3 is to me even though I've long since beaten many games that have given me equal or greater inspiration to live and make the most out of my life.
It's simply great. Sure, I can talk about how the horror vibe is basically completely missing from the anime cutscenes, nothing's gonna beat the sheer artistic perfection of those things; there's also the fact that for some reason people really despise the new Mass Destruction or Unavoidable Battle (even though I personally love them, and I was one of those people who felt really off put by the sheer lack of the original P3's vibe once this game was revealed, music included).
But honestly, none of that truly matters. This game improved on the original in basically every aspect: gameplay, voice acting, visuals, accessibility, they truly loved the original game and did their utmost in order to make a remake that could surpass the original. And honestly, yeah, I'd play this over FES and Portable any day of the century. It's truly perfect.
(I also beat the super boss without Orpheus Telos so suck on that).