Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Persona 3 Reload?

For once the abysmal scores haven't come in yet from people who have clearly never played it. Surely only a matter of time

Gave it a 10. I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

If they add the FES content, I’ll bump it up to an 11.

A 9 out of 10 thats for sure.its up there with persona 5 royal.word up son

I give it 3 out of 5 Personas.

I’m only like 15 hours in, but if it ends up being anything less than a 9/10 I’d be surprised.

This feels like an improvement in pretty much every way compared to the original PS2 offering. At first I was skeptical, did we really need a remake? Actually playing it though? I'd now be perfectly fine if they gave Persona 4 the same treatment.

I'd say 8.5/10. In many areas it's a clear improvement over the original P3, but it also loses a bit of the original's vibe. It's far less spooky, particularly the introductory scenes.

The lack of FES content and the female MC are also too much to ignore. Especially when we all know Atlus is going to milk us for one or both of those next year.

So overall a great game, but not the definitive version of P3. At least not yet.

I would personally give it a 9. I feel the social links were done better in persona 5 and 4 since some of them at least gave you useful skills or buffs like the confidants and the social links in P4G mostly consisted of the actual party members. This time I'm just doing it for the EXP boost and I feel like I can just skip their dialogue (I don't though)

Solid game. 3rd best Persona 3 release behind FES and Portable. Enjoy the updated visuals and voice acting. However it does feel like it's missing it's own identity with its Persona 5ish presentation.

@Luvstagrind You can form social links with your party members in P3 but they're all locked behind social stats - you need to max all three which is pretty excessive. Having party members (your best friends!) as your initial and central social links makes much more sense, as they clearly realised by P4. However, social stats aren't as much of a grind in P3 - I'm 20 hours in and 3/5 on them all, so expecting to be able to start levelling S.Links with party members before the halfway point of the game.

@jmvalone agree about the opening scenes. The coffins just don't feel very scary when you're running past them in-game. The original anime sequence was far more striking and disturbing.

Having a lot of fun though, I think 8.5 is about right.

Currently at start of July only today I started putting more time into the game 20 hours in! Can’t wait to see where the story goes!

FES is my favorite game of all time, and playing Reload feels like I’ve come home. 9/10!

Still haven't played a Persona game. I don't know if I'm going to start with this one, but it's great to see it getting some love.

Persona 3 has always been my favourite and this remake has just solidified that stance. So happy that all my favourite games are getting such great remakes these days.

It's an easy 9, mainly due to keeping true to the original, I hate it when remakes fundamentally change the core gameplay

A over priced remaster pretending to be a remake that isn't even definitive

On June 1st and just witnessed Junpei’s scary story time. Loving P3R so far. I’ll take any Persona content tbh

@ButWhy
With the amount of love and care put into the game I think this statement is selling the game short. This is much more than a simple remaster since they didn't just update they resolution and called it a day, they went back and updated every single area of the game and even added a couple new ones. All while keeping the vibes of the original game. Persona 3 Reload looks how you remember it, not how Persona 3 actually looks. I'll give it to you that this is not the definitive version but adding the female MC would require a ton of more work on top of what they already did, it wouldn't have been a simple "reskin boy model to female" since her route is practically an entirely new experience in and of itself. They actually added most of the FES content to the base game with this release and even added new content never before released on top of it. They modernized the combat with new mechanics and completely touched up Tartarus so it's not exactly the same thing over and over. The one major missing piece to the game besides the female MC is "the answer" 's content, which I'm guessing is more likely to be released as DLC rather than as Persona 3 Reload "Royal Golden" or whatever since you'd naturally only play that content once you beat the main game. So it makes more sense to just finish it up and release it later while people are just finishing the game.

Tl;Dr... Calling it a mere remaster is a disservice to the amount of effort that was put into modernizing and updating the game. It's still not the definitive release we were hoping for...but getting the definitive release with every version of Persona 3 would have taken several years...just look at Final Fantasy 7.

The 5% "abysmal" scores are from upset FemC fans I guarantee it

@Batesy125s spoke too soon lol!

Most games Atlus develop are 10/10 (maybe not Soul Hackers 2).

It's pretty great. Still P5R is a better game. Social links here leave a lot to be desired, some don't make any sense. Level design is an improvement but still not on P5 level. Still haven't played anything as good in years. Yeah BG3 is prob better but It was hard for me. Playing it on Portal is a game changer. I forgot games can be so fun

I say only Good but if they add FeMC then it be Excellent.