My first time playing was magical. This game made me fell in love with this franchise, i spent hours and hours in this shit, i remember til this day every reaction i had to the story. I played everywhere, anytime, until i beated it and did everything the game had to offer... with both MCs.

Now, almost five years after the day i beated P3P, i came back to the game of my life after playing Persona 5 and it hurts... the magic is gone. The port is alright, the original P3 already had along with it's inovations, some questionable design decisions, so it's a faithful port, but the thing is a 3D enviroment makes a LOT of difference in immersion, even more after playing P5, it just feels like something is missing.

So after playing a bit of Portable again, i went to the FES version. It is cool and all but is not only outdated aswell but stuck to the amazing decision of not having control of your party... c'mon, i can forgive other stuff because this is the Persona game that started a generation, but not even SMT does this type of bullshit because is not a good ideia to give half of the battle control to a group of shitty 2006 AIs. Okay, some people say they wanted the characters to feel alive, like you don't control other people... sorry, but when a character that was supposed to be smart does the dumbest fucking move of all time in the battles, i don't feel like they're alive, i feel like the devs don't know what the fuck they're doing.

I didn't think remaking P3 was a good idea but FES and even the "updated" Portable port, the one i played and loved so much, is absurdly outdated. This game needs a remake now! I would love to see it in the P5 Engine. Now with a re-release of this version in the way, a remake is just a distant dream and we're now stuck with two half-assed versions of this game that had everything to be a masterpiece except a company that cares.

Edit: We did it :)