A second-year who transferred to Gekkoukan High School in the spring, returning to the island he used to live on as a child.

Step into the shoes of a transfer student thrust into an unexpected fate when entering the hour "hidden" between one day and the next. Awaken an incredible power and chase the mysteries of the Dark Hour, fight for your friends, and leave a mark on their memories forever.

The purpose of the additional side stories was to flesh out certain characters as individuals better, as the main story based their roles around an "ensemble drama."[1]

While upgrading the visual expression of the game through the head-to-body ratio, one of their goals was to recreate the image of the original version in everyone's minds while under the feeling of an increased resolution. The developers were conscious with modifying the head-to-body ratio as to not take away from the atmosphere of the original.

The player is also trying to acquire Concentrate from Thoth to further enhance Black Frost’s prowess. This fusion represents the creative ways players combine elemental attacks and buffs, often breaking the traditional game progression.

Booting up Persona 3 Reload feels like returning to my second life, one where I'm the leader of a ragtag group of fellow misfits and one where I finish top of the class after acing all my exams — an experience I can assure you I'm very much not familiar with IRL. 

A dog who awakens to the power of Persona after a tragic event. Since his original owner—the priest of the dorm's neighboring Naganaki Shrine—had passed away, the protagonist and friends take him in as a full-fledged member of SEES.

. Although you have less time to focus on ranking up the Aeon arcana Social Link when compared to the others, advancing your relationship with Aigis goes by pretty quickly.

Virtue’s Hamaon instant death skill can reliably take out single targets instantly thanks to its high sucess rate. Against multiple targets, Virtue can instead use Maham but at lower rates of triggering immediate KO.

In July 2022, Atlus Japan conducted a consumer-led survey gauging interest in potential remakes and re-releases of past games from the publisher, specifically in the Megami Tensei franchise.

The ability to order party members to split up to search the current floor has been removed. Instead, there's now a chance for a party member to request to search the next floor up alone.

The frame rate has been improved from the original's 30FPS to a stable 60FPS, and the resolution has been increased to support 4K.

And the structure was so repetitive that I got turned around fairly easily. The train battle sends my party down long, straight stretches with few visual distinctions and only a couple enemies per section. This hews very close to the original game, but is barren by modern standards. Persona 3 had less going on than later games in the series, but there is something much more striking about that lack of substance modernized.

But rather than giving in to their negative thoughts and falling into despair, the people you interact with are all pushing back against the tide Persona 3 and trying to find a reason to keep pushing forward.