Persona 3 Reload Won't Include Content from FES or Portable, Including the Female Protagonist

In an interview with IGN, Persona 3 Reload producer Ryota Niitsuma and chief director Kazuhisa Wada confirmed that Persona 3 Reload only features content present in the original release of Persona 3.

[Snookies12]

That's... Kind of disappointing, not getting the FES stuff at least.

[Nebaku]

It's the opposite really.

The Fes Stuff(The Answer) was 30 hours of mindless dungeon crawling, for a barebones story that hurt what WAS a good ending to the original game.

The extra content from PSP however, namely the female protagonist, would have done nothing but improve the overall package.

[VersusDMC]

It is but the main P3 storyline is still around the 80 hours so it is 60 bucks worth of content. And it is a big graphical upgrade. Compared to the original.

And i can see why they didn't add the female protagonist as they would have to do every cutscene twice. They did it on the psp version because there were no cutscenes(just still images) all that changed was the voice and text.

But maybe i don't care as much because it's a one month gamepass rental for me.

[-Foxtrot]

Of course

They'll include it in a future Persona 3: Reload +

[RpgSama]

Yep!, Will be skipping this at launch while waiting for the "Royal" edition.

[MadLad]

Same. Persona is actually my favorite in the series, and I'm hyped for the remake, but it's ridiculous to not include the added content and instead pull it out and sell it, yet again, down the road.

This is a remake. Not a new release. Just give us whatever content is already on offer.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

@MadLad,
This exactly, there's no reason to not make this the definitive version with all of the content from P3P and FES, or at least the FES content. I really want to buy it, but I'm expecting a P4G or P5R type treatment in the near future, so I'll be skipping out on this for the first year or two.

It's bad enough that the original game's content was so fragmented with the Vanillia, Fes and Portable editions. I always feel like Atlus is nickle and diming us when they do this kind of thing, especially when it's shortly after the original releases.

[GhostScholar]

Just so you know a lot of people didn’t like some of the content that is being left out.

[MadLad]

@ghost

That would be an easy fix. Just make it that you can opt in or out of the extra content. Plenty of games have features like that anymore.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

@GhostScholar,
You can just choose not to play it, FES did split the game in two, so you could just, not play the Answer, and P3P let you choose your protag.

Judging by the comments on a lot of news sites, most people actually want the FES and P3P content. It seems like it's only the minority who don't want the left out content.

[AizenSosuke]

Disappointing to be real with everyone here.

[gold_drake]

missed opportunity with FemMC.

[Magic_Spatula]

Eh. Guess I'll just go and replay the PSP version.

[Soulsborne]

OG P3 FES best anyways.

[notachance]

But will we be able to save the MC though

[Bhuahahaha]

it will be paid dlc

[GoodGuy09]

I'm guessing it'll be as dlc/enhanced version. Ah... typical atlus...

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

So, wait a year or two for the definitive P3 Remake Fancy edition or whatever they call it? Got it.

[-Gespenst-]

They MUST have known this would be an unpopular move, and yet they still did it, probably because they want to sell that stuff as DLC down the line.

[jznrpg]

That’s a shame really.

[lio_convoy]

I don't mind the decision not to include the later content. I kind of feel that these extentions to the games just are padding to already long games. P3, P4 and P5 were all better vanilla versions compared to the later releases. The idea of spending more time with characters you like is nice, but the original stories and endings were just so good that when Atlus added more content and changed some things in how the games worked, it diluted the experience for me.