MC fate spoilers.

[dog_force21]

Ugh I actually wish they would stop doing anything with this Persona game or at least do SOMETHING to alter the fate or AT LEAST give some glimmer of hope to the end fate of the MC I haven't been able to even finish the original game after finding out how it ends. This better damn be SOME sort of evidence that Persona 6 has SOMETHING to do with the end of this one.

[Hymnos]

he's still a door

[Sirlion]

He \ she (Kotone still exists) is not technically dead... just kinda sorta impossible to take him \ her away from where they are. But the rest of the team is still trying to find a way, who knows

[Toasty]

The protagonist's sacrifice is an important part of the story. The game is filled with imagery and symbolism of death. He/she was always going to die (just like we all will eventually), but they managed to find joy and meaning in how they chose to spend their life. We see in the FMV at the end of P3/FES that the protagonist dies with a smile on their face.

It's actually one of the reasons why I dislike the Answer. It suggests that the protagonist is trapped in some kind of limbo and will eventually be rescued by Elizabeth and Aigis. It spits on the meaning of the base game's ending and makes the protagonist's "death" seem far more torturous than it should be. Furthermore, it gives a concrete answer to the question of WHY the protagonist felt so strongly about their decision, which I feel is better left up to speculation, since each player will have their own interpretation.

[Evangelion]

No, that would completely ruin all the impact the ending had for no reason. The protagonist happily sacrificing himself to save his friends is what completes his character development, and it is why many people consider him the best in the series, it is his end to his story. It also does extremely well in delivering p3's hopeful and impactful message. Every death in p3 is necessary and shouldnt be removed for fan service

Respectfully, most people who played p3 consider the ending a masterpiece, why would they change it for the few people that don't understand the meaning of the ending?

[Hymnos]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

No, that would completely ruin all the impact the ending had for no reason. The protagonist happily sacrificing himself to save his friends is what completes his character development, and it is why many people consider him the best in the series, it is his end to his story. It also does extremely well in delivering p3's hopeful and impactful message. Every death in p3 is necessary and shouldnt be removed for fan service

Respectfully, most people who played p3 consider the ending a masterpiece, why would they change it for the few people that don't understand the meaning of the ending?

maybe they will add "Another Ending" or "What if Ending" like in P5R

[Evangelion]

Originally posted by Hymnos:

maybe they will add "Another Ending" or "What if Ending" like in P5R :satisfied:

I think there is a good chance they do add a post credit scene showing Elizabeth leave the velvet room like they did in the movies, but thats prob about it. They could obv expand upon the already existing ending while keeping the substance the same

It doesn't really need another ending imo. The good and bad ending are a perfect contrast

[Koopa]

I just want makoto to have the personality he did from the movies instead of the atlus cardboard cutout protagonist classic

[Toasty]

Originally posted by Koopa:

I just want makoto to have the personality he did from the movies instead of the atlus cardboard cutout protagonist classic

It was definitely always there in the game too. I think a lot of people mistake his apathetic/detached dialogue options as being a blank slate, but we can see in P3P, P4, and P5 that his attitude really is something unique to him.
https://youtu.be/DeKA1_KuNTw

[alreev]

Originally posted by Koopa:

I just want makoto to have the personality he did from the movies instead of the atlus cardboard cutout protagonist classic

in a way the movies actually adapt makoto's personality from the game but much more pronounced

i hope reload can take inspirations with how they handled makoto in the movies, i believe they fleshed out his character better than the original game

[Αη Ιnτellecτual Tsiραr]

Maybe, just maybe... accept reality. The whole theme of this game was accepting the inevitability of death. Let it go and live your life. No need to obsess over the past. Persona 3's story is over. It ended on a high note for the cast and for the world. Let him rest.

[RoboSensei]

Elizabeth abandoned her duties in the Velvet Room to begin her own journey to discover how to free him. This is explained in the P4 Margaret boss dialog and in Elizabeth's P4A story. It is my theory that she also made/sent Jose to study humans so that she could find out how to make humanity stop yearning for Nyx, relieving P3MC from his role as the Great Seal

[Kalrim Frosthill]

Persona 4 Arena gives that glimmer of hope, but I feel like undoing the ending of Persona 3 defeats the whole point of the game...Momento Mori

[Saltmine]

Elizabeth's own journey post P3 in the arena games already shows that she's trying to save him in some way. Altering and changing the story now to save him is just going against the theme of the journey and killing the continuity that Atlus has set up post P3 (why would you even want this?). Even the P3 cast accepted what happened to him and moved on.

As a side note, Jose keeps mentioning that someone, but I don't know who. Maybe they'll play a part in P6 and that ties into saving P3MC from his fate?

[Toasty]

Originally posted by Wakka:

Elizabeth's own journey post P3 in the arena games already shows that she's trying to save him in some way. Altering and changing the story now to save him is just going against the theme of the journey and killing the continuity that Atlus has set up post P3 (why would you even want this?). Even the P3 cast accepted what happened to him and moved on.

As a side note, Jose keeps mentioning that someone, but I don't know who. Maybe they'll play a part in P6 and that ties into saving P3MC from his fate?

This is exactly why I hate everything that tries to continue the story of P3. The protagonist should have died, just like any other human. No respawns, the story is over. This whole "trapped in limbo" thing and the quest to "save" him ruins the game's story.

It feels like once a series gets big enough, the writers are too scared to ever make a bold move like killing one of the protagonists permanently. I'm praying that P3R doesn't try to change the ending.

[Saltmine]

Originally posted by Toasty:

Originally posted by Wakka:

Elizabeth's own journey post P3 in the arena games already shows that she's trying to save him in some way. Altering and changing the story now to save him is just going against the theme of the journey and killing the continuity that Atlus has set up post P3 (why would you even want this?). Even the P3 cast accepted what happened to him and moved on.

As a side note, Jose keeps mentioning that someone, but I don't know who. Maybe they'll play a part in P6 and that ties into saving P3MC from his fate?

This is exactly why I hate everything that tries to continue the story of P3. The protagonist should have died, just like any other human. No respawns, the story is over. This whole "trapped in limbo" thing and the quest to "save" him ruins the game's story.

It feels like once a series gets big enough, the writers are too scared to ever make a bold move like killing one of the protagonists permanently. I'm praying that P3R doesn't try to change the ending.

Praying for that too, bud. Props to the devs if they actually stick to just a QoL and graphical remake like what they're showing (excluding the new SEES outfits) and not another FF7 "remake" situation. It does seem that the Persona team cares about the continuity enough that they memory wipe the cast in the canon PQ and PQ2 games to keep it consistent (P3 teams finding out that they were successful in ridding the dark hour would kind of be weird if they returned with their memories intact)