IS PERSONA 3 RELOAD BAD!?!? | READING NEGATIVE STEAM REVIEWS

I think not liking the new music is one thing, that’s totally a valid opinion, for me it doesn’t trump the original, but I think all of the songs are at least good with a few being my preferred version. Saying it sounds like persona 5 is insane though, the sonic aesthetic is so different I really can’t see it

These mfs don't know i bought it just for a better fuuka VA

I honestly think removing yukari's "Ugh, there's no way I can't" line would significantly improve the scene, imo it breaks the tension, i don't think it's the delivery of the line just that it's there vs silently tossing aside the evoker as she collapses.

That last review was 100% ragebait…no way they hate everything about P3R

This has probably been said before, but the expansion pass drama, and the day 1 dlc isn't atlus fault. it's an initiative by sega to extend the game life spans.

I play both p3 fes and reload. P3 fes was the first one I’ll played and I say there might been a few aspect they did better. But I love the way they did reload in every way yes it still needs a few improvements but for me I’m not gonna really care. Persona helped me change to view the world differently

People tend to look at things with their rose-tinted glasses. A few opinions are perfectly valid. But others are just purely nostalgic bias

i think this game should ABSOLUTELY GET THE GOTY

10:48 this was a common problem in persona 5 where they felt the need to dumb things down, and over explain what was happening because they had no faith in the audience. In this scene yukari literally explains how to shoot yourself in the head, and then says she cant do it. They couldn't have dumbed it down any less. The original showed that yukari feared death by having her not go through with the act, but reload just tells you that she fears death when she verbally says she cant do it

My biggest gripe is the day one DLC, I get that they want to add cool things from the other games, but to me it seems to be a blatant cash grab. And the fact that they said originally they had no plans on doing The Answer, then released the $200 Aigis edition, which I admit I did buy, which said it contained all DLC, just for them to announce fairly soon after release that The Answer would come costing half of the base game and anyone who bought any edition containing ALL DLC would still have to shill out that $35. I think this is setting a pretty bad precedent for the industry as a whole, showing that game companies can get away with releasing DLC (lots of season passes and cosmetics, and lots of useless things), sometimes day one , in Atlus's case releasing an integral part of the story behind a paywall. A game I know who did this correct was GOW: Ragnarok, with the Valhalla DLC. A free DLC about the games epilouge.

For me personally, i think Reload was a great game and improved on FES/Portable in almost every way. Granted, Reload was actually my introduction to Persona which led me to play every other Persona game before it. I finished P5R twice, finished P4G and finished P3P and i was gonna play FES but i kinda have P3 burnout rn so maybe another time so my comparisons are mostly with Portable and i think it goes without saying which is the better game objectively That isnt to say that Reload is a perfect game since such a thing doesnt exist. There are definitely many ways they couldve improved the game such as adding all the extra content from the original games to Reload or FEMC but i understand Game dev isnt the easiest thing in the world and would need to cut corners to meet a deadline but it doesnt stop me from being a little disappointed Things like Music, Gameplay, Voice Acting ( i will touch up on that later) and others are massive improvements but there are a few things i thought was better in the Original. Some music i prefer in the original such as the original Mass Destruction after listening to the original sounds like it has more impact? Or such in a way, its hard to explain but i did prefer the original as well as the original Dorm music too but thats just my opinion. I dont think i need to get into Gameplay since i feel like it is an improvement in every single aspect, im not a hardcore player so i dont really care if it makes the game baby easy since i dont determine a game’s quality based on how difficult the game is For Voice acting, all the voices are amazing. Especially from someone like Mitsuru, Fuuka, Ken, Junpei, Midori and Yukari and others. Though i feel like at some parts, the original voice acting did better but it wasnt the voices that was a benefactor but the direction. Like the scene with Yukari screaming bloody murder before you stop the train from crashing, it was far more impactful in the original than in Reload. But other than a few scenes, all the VAs did a fantastic job. With the Cutscenes, im a bit iffy on. While they are still good in Reload, FES did a few of them better in my opinion such as the cutscenes first showing people turning into coffins at the backalley. Reload got the shorter end of the stick there and the Mo-capped cutscene can look a little awkward at times like the ending scene of everyone running to the roof, someone pointed out that when it shoes Yukari running, you can see the backgrounf slowly coming to a stop which kinda ruined the scene for me when looking back. So in the Cutscene department, some looked alot better in FES In general, Reload is a fantastic game and got me into Persona but there are slight things which can be improved upon.

Thank you for mentioning new players. I think we're often forgotten abt in these conversations because a lot of convos are about which game does what better. But i went into reload mostly blind and had nothing but p5 to compare it to. So i got to take it in for what it is and not what it's trying to be. And honestly I'm glad cuz i enjoyed reload greatly including the things other people hated (including the music and voice acting 🥴)

Holy,that last review put me in brainrot mode. Like no way am I going to believe that they meant ANY of what they said in that review and instead did it for the ragebait

Honestly my biggest gripe with the game is just the 3rd block, the blue one. In the original it was a M.C. Escher like decor which was fitting for the tower as it grows from the ground like a teratoma of architecture (search up teratoma on your own risk) forming from the (crystal) matrix of the school. But in reload it’s all just machinery, visual noise and so much small geometry to get stuck on, it was the biggest let down, I remember that in the original in the background of battle there was these two circles rolling on a curved piece and it used stairs as if it was cogs, it was so cool! I was so relieved when the next block the golden palace was so open air and then the rest was pretty easy to navigate, but I wish the big rooms were more frequent, really surprised me when I first saw them and I think the reaper is to easy to run around, didn’t give me that would escaping fear from hearing chains anymore, but it walking up stairs was good tho. Anything else that was in the game was just great

I will say that by virtue of this being a remake a long time player can definitely see how far Persona has come in dialogue writing, characterization of the silent protagonist (It sounds like an oxymoron, but if you know you know), and the variety of social link characters. Persona 3 has a different bone structure than five and even four, so retrofitting new features into that skeleton shows. It's not limited to this, because both Golden and Royal have moments where you can tell which are added features. In some cases even the writing of the Link episodes in Reload feel stronger than the actual base game. To me it's not objectively good or bad, but it does remind me of how Pokemon remakes tend to slap on new features but keep the relative aged features of the original.

This was my first Persona game, and honestly it set the bar SO high for me. Persona had always been on my radar and like a million years ago I had tried Persona 5 but I wasn't in the right mindset to play it so I dropped it and wrote the series off to a "one day I'll give it a shot." Well for my birthday, a friend of mine bought Persona 3R and I dove headfirst and I loved every second of it. Sure, there's some pacing problems but I have absolutely zero frame of reference for this game from the old Persona 3. I thought the story and combat was great, I thought the music was wonderful and unironically might what finally gets me into rap as a genre. I platted not only this game, but it inspired me to get the Platinum for P5R too, and I'll be working on 4G next. I thought the characters and voice acting were absolutely stellar all around. It shocked me to hear this is the first time social links get fully voiced scenes all the way through, but it did such a tremendous job selling me on these characters that everytime I hit a rank 10, I was crying my eyes out at what was going on. This game made me cry multiple times and I can confidently say it's one of my favorite games bar none now. I will always be thankful my friend got me a birthday gift like this because it finally opened the door to a game series that I was always going to put on the backburner. That being said I still don't approve of the DLC pricing and choices, even if I will begrudgingly get Episode Aigis anyways because I love this world and the characters so much I want to see the next step on their journey.

as someone who's only played like the first maybe 10 hours or so of p3r and played through all of p5r, it's just. really, really, really difficult for me to care about the story or the characters or anything that's happening in the game. the pace is incredibly slow, tartarus is a slog to crawl through, it feels like there's nothing to actually do until the story decides to do its thing again. the social links are also mostly terrible and i only care about one of them (odagiri). people have told me "it gets good in october!" but to me it's just like, why do i have to play a game for THAT LONG to actually have something draw me in? idk. maybe it's something i'll have to come back to in a year or something. i felt similarly about p5 at first, as i tried to play the vanilla version way back in 2017 and only got to just meeting akechi for the first time before i decided to drop it, and now here i am, completely obsessed with it after playing royal last year. sooo... it could be just a skill issue on my part LOL. on a side note i also have unmedicated adhd which could also be adding to my problem with it, but yeah.

Tbh on the Atmosphere point I do prefer FES because, yes the thought is "is this girl trying to kill herself" and I think that works for the theming. Since its the start of the game its trying to ask a question, in the hustle and bustle of a city no matter how small, will a random person's death even be felt? The dogs will continue to bark, the trains will move on, even while she's contemplating it. It shows this point by having it cut to her and chair walking down the city rapidly to compare the two scenes, both with chaos, one with chaos in the mind, one with chaos in the streets But, Persona 3 answers that question near the end. "Yes, her death would of been felt, her death would of been a tragedy to countless people and could of lead to the end of the world [metaphorically]" P3R doesn't ask that question as well, it doesn't show the counterpoint of "no, it isn't felt, in the grand scheme everyone's a cog in a machine, every dog's bark could be replaced with another, if you miss a train another will come"

recently i started playing FES on emulator, and having now seen the reload version of the yukari scene, it is actually just straight up funny in comparison to the original. the dialogue is so goofy and feels generic and its honestly just nothing in comparison to how dark and tense the original felt to me. im open to the idea of the positives of reload, i think the UI's and stuff look great, but for this cutscene i am heavily in favour of the original also based video, i thought it was gonna be one of those stupid negative steam review videos where they act like anyone with a differing opinion is stupid, but you took a very good approach to this, my seal of approval