Atlus has actually exposed that Persona 3 Reload, revealed at Sunday’s Xbox Showcase, will certainly be a remake of the initial 2007 Persona 3 launch for PlayStation 2, and also won’t consist of the web content and also alternatives included later variations Persona 3 FES and also Persona 3 Portable.
That implies it won’t consist of FES’ added epilogue phase, or Portable’s game-modifying alternative to play as a women lead character.
Producer Ryota Niitsuma told IGN that “since the basic concept of the Persona 3 remake was to remake the Persona 3, we don’t have the FES and Portable contents included. We wanted to really genuinely work on recreating the Persona 3 experience.”
Niitsuma included that “we have remade basically everything from scratch as for Persona 3 the original version. So we have newly recorded voices, we have new scenes and events. We also have both new and arranged music. […] We wanted to keep everything from the original version, but update everything to the modern day.” The objective is to make the game as up-to-date and also as usable as Persona 5.
Atlus has actually launched upgraded modifications of every current game in the Persona collection, consisting of Persona 4 Golden and also Persona 5 Royal, so it’s greater than feasible it’s maintaining the attachments back for a future updated variation of Persona 3 Reload. Still, the noninclusions are weird, specifically thinking about that the full-featured Persona 3 Portable was just extremely just recently editioned on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Steam, and also Xbox.
Reviewing the reissue in January, Polygon’s Chelsea Stark called it an “aging classic”: “While the systems don’t hold up when stacked against the newer titles, I found its bleaker tone more endearing and lovable. It takes work to get to the end, but the complicated, messy, weird story is worth it.”
Persona 3 Reload is established for an “early 2024” launch on Game Pass, Windows COMPUTER, Xbox One, and also Xbox Series X. There’s no word yet on PlayStation or Switch variations.
Source: Polygon
