#i hate that game dearly (has played through golden 2 times). remake 1 or 2 or dont at all . please. please

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a little more than halfway through it by now so heres some (long) more persona 3 thoughts. not spoiler-free btw

i'm having a pretty good time with it, though i am a little disappointed that all the 'new' stuff pretty much goes as far as new hangouts with the guys and a couple of new scenes and mechanics introduced for gameplay purposes. it's not as if these new things are bad, far from it! i've pretty much enjoyed every new hangout, especially shinjiro's and ken's.

but it's also so.... Weird . i don't know how to explain it, but stuff like this feels designed for people who played the og game. i feel like part of what made shinjiros circumstances in the og so shocking was Not knowing he was going to die, no matter what - and even then, i feel like p3 places a pretty heavy emphasis on why giving up on yourself and the idea that things will never get better Isn't the right thing. i liked all of shinjiros little hangouts + the little september questline for him, but it also feels so. heavy-handed LMAO, i guess you could argue the og made no secrets of it either, especially if you were playing femc in p3p (though i would also argue femc was for people who'd already played the game), but idk.....

i guess there's an expectation in video games these days that remakes are just as much for the og fans as well as the new ones, but i can't help but wonder how much i would enjoy some of this content had i not already been so familiar with the game... this is smth that bothers me abt other games as well, especially ff7r since i like the og ff7 so much, and it's smth i havent really been able to totally decide on how to feel. i guess the original will always be there for that reason but... graaaaaa its mostly preferential and something best saved for a totally different and unrelated post

anyway despite gripes like this, gameplay-wise its still fun. i've mostly knocked out most of the Bad/mid slinks so i can focus more on the ones that actually Hit, and the dungeon-crawling itself has always been fun, even moreso now with all the innovations they've made in 15 years LMAO

this is basically what i expected so i can't be too mad i guess, og persona 3 is good so of course the remake would be solid if nothing else. but still, with something as successful as this series and how long this remake has been anticipated, i guess i can't help but wish there was a bit more here. its the same areas, its the same slinks (minus improvements like not automatically dating the girls. lmao), its the same story. if nothing else, its a Good story, but. ah well