this game is somewhat a legacy title, with the shinier and newer persona 3 reload taking up 99% of the incoming persona-three-inclined players. kind of funnily, i think it is persona at its best.

tartarus is turned into a fascinating and fun gameplay element, is challenging, requires interacting with the deep system of persona fusion to get through (i played on harder difficulty)

the addition of kotone shiomi, the female protagonist, with her fresh scenario script and vastly improved social links makes for the most nostalgic (an important quality for this game is the feeling of age, the anachronistic polish and vfx spam of persona 3 reload makes it feel... a bit too modern!) most touching(see; your social links are not a random school classmates, but deeper looks into the main cast members of the original title, reflections on the female experience of systemic misogyny in schools, a complex main character with a lot of personality, who covers her depression with humour and false optimism) and aesthetically interesting (new UI, music, openings that carry an excellent, if less "classic persona 3" feel) jrpgs.

with the franchise leaning more and more into the features people loved about more recent titles, we will probably never see another game like this. i'd reccommend this title with my entire heart

Only buy this if you want to play as FeMC, though you can do that through sailing the high seas and using PPSSPP instead. Reload is just the superior and definitive way of experiencing Persona 3. I bought this back when Reload wasn't even announced lol. But right now, why? Go buy Reload and wait for the FeMC mod pack to be finished.

玩完p3p之后玩p3r你会突然醒悟，真……真是吃了一大坨史啊……
不是阿特拉斯凯子不建议玩，操作 战斗 日常的一些系统真的是远古级别