Be aware there are apparently some spoilers in the trailer for people who haven’t played Persona 3

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    8 months ago

    I don’t own P3 Reloaded, but is this sort of like the additional content that usually comes in Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal? Shouldn’t this have been included in the P3 Reloaded release?

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      8 months ago

      Episode Aigis (or The Answer in the west) was an expansion/epilogue to the base game. (In)Famous for its focus on combat and sparse story content.

      The original release was pretty long (about 30 hours, I think) so I guess they thought it would be too much work to add it to base remake? Or they just wanted money, I dunno. It’s Atlus. They have a… special approach to game development.

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        8 months ago

        It’s Atlus. They have a… special approach to game development.

        Can’t wait for a Persona 3 ReMix: Kotone/FemC Edition, complete with upgraded and extended Ken romance route 💀

        (jk Atlus doesn’t care about FemC)

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          8 months ago

          This hurts twice as much since I’m just going through the FemC route for the first time. She’s great! (ಡ‸ಡ)

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            8 months ago

            Sorry homie :,)

            But have fun! Kotone/FemC is great, I played her as my new game+ when I first played P3P, and it honestly made NG+ less of a chore because of how different her personality is compared to Makoto/MC. And her social links are great too (except…you know…)

            The “dual protag” experience of Persona 2 and 3 is honestly so underappreciated imo. But Altus won’t do it anymore. I’m not bitter about this at all :clown emoji:

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              8 months ago

              I played her as my new game+ when I first played P3P

              That’s exactly what I’m doing as well. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Ken romance optional? Granted, it might be easy to fall into but still.

              Still need to go through P1 & 2, for now they’re just taunting me whenever I look through my game library…

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                8 months ago

                Yes the Ken romance is optional, you can max it without romancing him. But I think most of the playebase is usually disturbed at the fact that dating the 10 year old orphan is an option at all. I’ve spoke with a few Japanese fans about it, and while they’re more mild about the criticism, apparently it was still a bit “wtf” to some of them too.

                But in the later games YOU get to be the adolescent dating an adult, so…uh…yay? I joke to my friends that Kenji from Persona 3 directed Persona 4 and 5.

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                  8 months ago

                  It could also be Ken or the original MC considering his hermit social link. Man does Persona love their age-difference tag.

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                    8 months ago

                    Listen, Makoto didn’t know who he was playing his little video game with ok?? He’s just really, really dumb! Plausible deniability!