This game is so good I spen all of my day yesterday playing the final month and finished it late at night at like 4. Everyone needs to play persona 3.
I dont care what version but p3r is easily the best way to get into it with a way more enjoyable tartarus plus extra story for some characters that didnt get as much spotlight time in the og game. All of this on top of a lot of qol
but even without all of that p3's story is so good and its really incredible how the gameplay feeds the main theme. You can tell that the persona social simulation gameplay was made to serve this story. To the point i dont think the story would work as well if it wasnt a video game. SEES is now my favorite group in the 3 modern persona games and while some of the reason for that is because of the new scenes for the boys of the group added in p3r the amount of character development each and everyone gets is incredible and goes a long way to making them feel like real humans.
p3r is on game pass so even if you cant/dont want to pay $70 for it get like a month of game pass and go play persona 3 reload