Atlus has revealed that Persona 3 Reload, introduced at Sunday’s Xbox Showcase, might be a remake of the unique 2007 Persona 3 launch for PlayStation 2, and gained’t embody the content material and choices added in later variations Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Transportable.
Meaning it gained’t embody FES’ extra epilogue chapter, or Transportable’s game-altering choice to play as a feminine protagonist.
Producer Ryota Niitsuma told IGN that “because the fundamental idea of the Persona 3 remake was to remake the Persona 3, we don’t have the FES and Transportable contents included. We needed to essentially genuinely work on recreating the Persona 3 expertise.”
Niitsuma added that “we have now remade mainly the whole lot from scratch as for Persona 3 the unique model. So we have now newly recorded voices, we have now new scenes and occasions. We even have each new and organized music. […] We needed to maintain the whole lot from the unique model, however replace the whole lot to the trendy day.” The purpose is to make the sport as modernized and as playable as Persona 5.
Atlus has launched up to date revisions of each current sport within the Persona collection, together with Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal, so it’s greater than potential it’s maintaining the add-ons again for a future upgraded model of Persona 3 Reload. Nonetheless, the omissions are odd, particularly contemplating that the full-featured Persona 3 Transportable was solely very not too long ago reissued on Nintendo Swap, PlayStation, Steam, and Xbox.
Reviewing the reissue in January, Polygon’s Chelsea Stark referred to as it an “getting old basic”: “Whereas the methods don’t maintain up when stacked towards the newer titles, I discovered its bleaker tone extra endearing and lovable. It takes work to get to the tip, however the difficult, messy, bizarre story is price it.”
Persona 3 Reload is about for an “early 2024” launch on Recreation Move, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X. There’s no phrase but on PlayStation or Swap variations.