Persona 3 Portable is likely my favourite JRPG of all time, second to the Utawarerumono Mask duology and maybe NieR Automata. Why is that?
Well, to start things off, I didn't take issue with things that a lot of people did. I read a shit ton of visual novels so the lack of a 3D open world (which didn't even look that great to me in FES) is fine, I am okay with the lack of the Answer, the loss of animated cutscenes is fine, and the FeMC story changes aren't great enough to bring down my opinion of the game. The Ken SLink is disgusting, yes, but thankfully it is optional, and there has never been a Persona game that wasn't bigoted or disgusting in some way. The game didn't look blurry to me due to playing an upscaled, modded version, which work better for P3P than for FES, in the latter of which the UI is difficult to upscale.
The game has a lot of fun content. You get to play as FeMC (who is a fun protagonist in a different way than the usual MC), you get new awesome OSTs, the game is much more fun to play due to using the Persona 4 combat system (the main thing Persona 4 has over FES, imo). I've even played it to the end twice, which doesn't happen often with JRPGs for me. Tartarus is a far lesser grind, too.
I just like it, I have not much else to say.
Well, to start things off, I didn't take issue with things that a lot of people did. I read a shit ton of visual novels so the lack of a 3D open world (which didn't even look that great to me in FES) is fine, I am okay with the lack of the Answer, the loss of animated cutscenes is fine, and the FeMC story changes aren't great enough to bring down my opinion of the game. The Ken SLink is disgusting, yes, but thankfully it is optional, and there has never been a Persona game that wasn't bigoted or disgusting in some way. The game didn't look blurry to me due to playing an upscaled, modded version, which work better for P3P than for FES, in the latter of which the UI is difficult to upscale.
The game has a lot of fun content. You get to play as FeMC (who is a fun protagonist in a different way than the usual MC), you get new awesome OSTs, the game is much more fun to play due to using the Persona 4 combat system (the main thing Persona 4 has over FES, imo). I've even played it to the end twice, which doesn't happen often with JRPGs for me. Tartarus is a far lesser grind, too.
I just like it, I have not much else to say.