Should I buy it?

[Kernist]

I never played any Persona game or SMT, idk anything about the universe except it involves fighting demons in digital world or something like that. I heard opinions that I don't lose anything not playing SMT and going for Personas, I also heard there is no point in playing P1 and P2 because they are way worse and outdated. In other words, from knowledge I obtained P3 is a good way to start.

My questions are as follows: is what I said correct? And if it is, what content should I buy? Idc too much about outfits especially when I see they are mostly from P4 and P5 I intend to play in the future anyway. I also don't care about artbook and soundtrack. There is, however, an expansion pass, very badly reviewed, but it will include an expansion in September if I recall correctly. Should I just skip it and then buy an expansion as a standalone thing?

[Arisato]

If you barely play any JRPG especially traditional JRPG then P5R is a better start since the game is more new player friendly. The game has good dungeons, good combat and the story progress is faster like P3. If you don't mind the slow story progress then P3R is a fine choice. About DLCs if you don't care about outfits or new personas then you don't have to buy that. For the expansion pass it got bad reviews because Atlus's greed not the content quality. You don't have to buy it now since the main content will be released in Sept so if you want to actually judge that wait until Sept.

But tbh since P3R got a new modern update I would recommend you play P4G instead. Because the combat in P4G is more slower, still very decent though, so I don't think you will enjoy the combat if you get used the new combat in P3R and P5R.

[Arifufu]

expansion thing is not standalone, it can only be played with base game, and yes expansion pass bundled with additional BGM that you could use them when exploring tartarus or when doing battle including you will get velvet room outfits out of expansion pass. Ignore the negative comments because they mad, Atlus didn't include Expansion pass with Premium edition of the game which already cost $100 now we have to pay $35 more, let alone whoever Pre-order Aigis edition with $200 price tag they also can't get expansion for free, only Xbox ultimate subscribers who get $35 expansion pass for free, it's really unfair how Atlus treat their fans

as for combat, it's good, still worse than P5R but P3R is much better than older P3 games

and yes i do agree better start from P4G, because you will "hate" P4G combat if you start from P3R, also P4G is a lot cheaper and no DLC bs

for story, P3R is really slow pacing story in the beginning perhaps up to october then the story will start to getting interesting, so you need prepare yourself so you don't fall asleep while this is not a problem in P4G or P5R

[dreminh]

nope after sale when there are some kind of complete edition , i brought the game 4 days latter they announce DLC like WTH !!!!!

[Kernist]

Ok, thank you for your comments, I think I will follow your advices and start with P4 and wait for some complete edition of P3.