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On the year Persona 3 got its remake, it rises up the list... a little. See, I never actually finished playing through Reload - I was playing it together with a friend whenever I visited him, so we made progress little by little until it just kinda fizzled out, understandably so because we've both played through the original.
Reload is weird. It's underwhelming in a lot of ways I wish it wasn't, but it's also a dramatic improvement over the original in mostly every area. I wish the graphics were better in Tatsumi Port Island. I wish the music hadn't been remade, or that at the very least they'd kept the original singer and not hired the frog choir to do the instruments in Mass Destruction. I wish the original voices hadn't been recast, even if the old cast was hit-or-miss, it was iconic and the new cast is hit-or-miss too. And I know I'm 100% alone on this, but I actually liked not having direct control over the other characters in the original - I know that's still an option in Reload, but I tried using it and it's obvious the game wasn't really made with it in mind, the AI is very bad.
Anyway I'm just rambling about the differences between FES and Reload like any of that matters. The point is: Persona 3 is great. Whatever version of it, really. And yeah overall Reload is the best, no question.
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