Persona 3 Reload is a great Remake from the Original. I said Great not Perfect because they did not include The Answer and Female MC Kotone from Persona 3 Fes and persona 3 Portable. " But the Answer Will Come as DLC... " I will explain it later.

This is the perfect Remake from The persona 3 Original from PS2. They took the element from The original and improve it Drastically. The Graphic, The Environment and background, The UI in the menu that inspired from persona 5 royal ( Minato looks cool when his drowning ).

The social link and the stories really crafted well and follow the core from the original with the improve feature that Atlus add. The game adding the Link event for Male party member, so you can bonding with the male party, and know what their Struggle, Objective, and Concern. This is great because you can look at your their perspective and feel their concern. The game also adding the activities in the night, you can watch DVD, tending garden, Cooking and reading with your friend in the dorm and it gives you useful item to help you in Tartarus.

The System Battle and Tartarus is fixed, In the original your party member will move wihout your command, now you can control them. The Tartarus adding the new element to it, they add Monad door that will give you a rare treasure if you beat it and they adding a new element so you will not get bored climbing tartarus. The game also add the theurgy system, is like super mega skill that different for each character. Is also charged up with different way for each party, so watch for it. The theurgy is really useful especially in the boss battle and reaper battle especially when you play in nightmare like i did. I often use MC theurgy to breeze through tartarus so i recommended it.

The Persona variation is the same as other persona games, the different is special persona like Thanatos, orpheus, etc. If you buy the DLC you got persona that unique in other games, it got unique skill difference from other so check it out.

The Music and OST. OMG i Love the music especially from the OP Movie, i'm not get bored listening to this, they are 60 OST and music to it. They improve the music from the original without changing the core, they still got a jazz and hip hop type of music combine, is catchy and fun to hear.

So i talk about the positive, there are also the negative.

First with how the atlus lock the OST and digital Artbook in the app. so if i want to see the Artbook or listen to music i must open the app and that is annoying. Maybe is for security, but is futile because you can get it from the interenet now.

Second is about the little cencorship in the beach scene. They changed the crossdress guy to delusional lady in the remake. I just want to point this out.

Now about the thing that pissing me off the most is The DLC Expansion Pass. I almost finished my second playthrough when they announce the answer DLC, what pissing me off is the DLC beside The Answer part is they adding new Velvet Costume and New OST from persona 4 ( best persona in my opinion ). I already bought the Digital Premium the most expensive one on Steam, and they want me to buy the DLC again just to play the answer DLC that they cut From Persona 3 FES. The DLC including three Phases that atlus will give to you to your Main game, The first One is OST, The second is The Velvet Room Costume, and the final is The Answer Aigis Edition in September.

Yes September so They release persona 3 reload in 2nd Febuary and The Answer In September, is 8 Months since The base game launched. They announce The Expansion pass in April if i'm not wrong, so why not including the Expansion pass in The Digital premium Edition on steam and in collector edition that people purchase? why must they charged me again just to play the Answer that they can include on the main game?

I Saw the interview on Atlus West with Kazuhisa Wada explain that the fans want to play The Answer so they are making The Answer too and give what the fans want, and charged the fans again with The Expansion Pass? really? why not including the expansion pass to the base game from the beginning? If this came out 1 or 2 years after the games launched i will not angry like this. They knew that they can include the expansion from the beginning but they don't want to do that.

I'm Afraid they will make The Persona 3 reload Kotone version and charged the fans again to buy the Second version of the remake, cause they know the fans love kotone.

Conclusion :

Persona 3 reload is the Great remake from the original, with so much improvement from the PS2 Era. I recommended playing the base game, but just buy the base game when is on discount, not the Deluxe and Premium Version. And I suggest don't buy the expansion pass cause Atlus is greedy and want to milk the fans money. I will wait until the expansion got discount to play the answer.

Thank You.