Damn, I am glad I got this remake. IDK if I can ever do a full review of the game, but I wanted to get my thoughts out right when I finished the game, just before I forget. This is a wonderful update to this innovative JRPG. Even after playing P3P, I felt this game was refreshing and new.

The combat continues to be excellent with its weakness system and the ability to fuse multiple Personas for your strategies. All of the characters needed buffs to their attacks and abilities, although I still didn't use Akihiko, Ken, and Koromaru for most of the game. The Theurgy system of charged moves was integrated wonderfully so that all of the characters have important attacks that can quickly change the tide of battle; the persona fusion attacks were re-integrated into this system. Grinding in Tartarus was never boring because 1) the environments look much better than the original and 2) extra events like Monad doors and grand clocks would speed up grinding and help give me new gear.

Weapons and upgrades were hard to come by in the beginning, but if you focus your time on earning money through shifts or by grinding enough in Tartarus, you be fine late game. Moreover, the antique store (a system I stupidly ignored in P3P) is a more rewarding system to earn weapons and gear. Other than that, the weapons and gear itself were pretty self-explanatory: some have higher stats as well as cool abilities for you to use, as long as you keep up with switching out gear

The bosses were just as good this time around, so nothing new to report. Although, and you should know by now I'm spoiling the game, the fights against Strega were much better both in gameplay and story.

The social aspect continues to strengthen your personas and the story's themes. Every social link that you come in contact with deals with the threat/concept/reality of death, which illustrates that there are many times in which everyone of any walk of life has to come to terms with their life and their mortality. My favorite social links are the Tower, Hierophant, and ESPECIALLY the Sun, a social link I missed out on last time. Seriously, if you only do ONE social link, make sure you hit up the shrines on Sundays. I'd be lying if I said that all of the social links are good. I don't particularly care about the Magician or Fortune, and I HATE the Moon to the point where I avoided that fat fuck. Luckily, the SEES members have their mini-social links that you can perform at night to gain abilities, unlock persona fusions, or help gain social stats.

The new voice actors continue to portray these characters accurately. My favorites are the actors Junpei, Makoto, Mitsuru, Fuuka, and Shinjiro. I did not care much for Ken or Koromaru, and I was a bit sour on Akihiko and Yukari, as the former tries too hard to sound rough and edgy, while the latter misses the snark and sarcasm in her voice at times. Oh, Aigis is the best one though. The social link actors, who now voice ALL LINES, did a pretty good job, although the Hermit and the Star had some stilted line delivery.

The music. Oh my god, the music is amazing. I waited half a year for the OST to slowly leak and gain in audio quality. And now we are FINALLY at a point where the OST is officially out. While I do lament the original P3's OP for its tone, 'Full Moon Full Life' is still super epic. Moreover, all of the other songs got improvements and second verses, although I mixed on the new female singer at times.

As for the pretty bad, I would say that the 'Babe Hunt' scene was tampered with, with the last lady at the end. They swapped out the secretly a man joke with some unfunny conspiracy theory joke. IDK why they felt the need to do that, but it sucked. I don't know if there are any other [Localization] hiccups like that, but it is important to keep in mind.

On another bad note? TOO EXPENSIVE! Seriously, $70 BASE GAME, then ATLUS added shitty costumes and music DLC as separate or 'Digital Deluxe' Edition shit. Oh, and the epilogue chapter 'The Answer'? Separate DLC for $35. The cheapest version of all of this is $105. That is ridiculous.

So yeah, everything you loved about P3 is in this, and I would DEFINITELY play this game again as the years pass, and after I have played 'The Answer'. But either wait for a price drop, buy P3P or mod the original P3FES.