300時間はプレイしましたし、そうするだけの価値や面白さはあると思いますが、個人的に文句があるという意味で不評にしておきます。

流石にPS2やPSP時代の原作に比べればUIは劇的に改善されていますが、過去のシリーズ作品（特にP5R）と比較すると使い辛く感じられます。
本作の「ベルベットルーム」はP5Rより出来ることが限られている上、ルーム内でメニューを開いたりセーブ・ロードしたり出来ない。
この仕様のお陰で、ペルソナの消去やスキルの並べ替えなどを行う際には一度退室する必要があり、出入りの度に扉を潜る長い演出を見る羽目になる。

「ベルベットルームを何度か出入りする」という想定がされておらず、使用を若干億劫に感じるほどテンポが悪いです。
P5Rならルーム内でメニューが開けるし、ソウルハッカーズ2なら類似の施設に入場する際の演出自体が無いのですが……。

そもそも本作のメニューは青文字と青背景で統一されている為、視認性が悪い。オシャレに寄り過ぎている。

BGMを変更するDLCについても使い勝手が相当悪く、BGMを変える度にメニューのコンフィグを開く必要があり、衣装を替えるだけで済んだP5Rよりひと手間掛かる。
P3Pでは風花にリクエストしてBGMを変えてもらうという仕組みだったので、個人的にはそれを再現して欲しかったです。

しかし一番の問題は、ボス戦のBGMすらもDLCに上書きされるという融通の利かなさで、この所為でプレイ中に何度も変え直す手間が生じるという点。
勿論、P5Rやソウルハッカーズ2のBGM仕様はこうなっておらず、DLCを使用していてもボス戦では本来のBGMが流れます。

更にソウルハッカーズ2ではBGMを「衣装に由来するかシステムで指定するか」を選択出来るオプションまで付いており、それより後発の本作が不便な点は擁護しがたい（強いて擁護出来る点を挙げるなら、流れるBGMを曲で指定出来るところですが）。

バトル中の不満を挙げれば、「テウルギア」の演出をスキップ出来る機能がないし、判断を仲間に委ねていると「シフト」を一切行わない。SPが無限に近いボス相手に吸魔を行うなど、原作よりマシとはいえ体感的にAIがあまり賢くない印象を受けます。
これについてもP5Rでは（SHOWTIMEやバトンタッチで）自然に出来ていたことで、何故細かな部分で悪くなっているのかが分かりません。

あと「リンクエピソード」にて、仲間との交流や設定の掘り下げが追加されたことは素直に喜ばしいですが、その多くが過密スケジュールになりがちな放課後に発生するのはやめて欲しかった。
二周目以降でも油断していると全コミュMAXを逃すレベルなので、エリザベスの依頼と同様に、時間経過なしの優遇処置があっても良かったのではないかと思います。

細かな不満を挙げればキリがなく、それぐらい個人的には楽しめた作品ではありますが、アップデートでも改善される見込みは無いようなので、次回作以降に期待したいところです。
（デジタルデラックスから付属しているサントラがアプリで、しかもそれが使い辛い点も改善してくれると嬉しいですが……割と高いお金を払っていることですし）

申し訳程度に攻略のポイントを添えておくと、本作のペルソナの耐性は、特定のペルソナがレベルアップで習得する以外は、スキルカード（と一部の装備品）でしか補強出来ません。
耐性系のカード自体がそこそこレアで（特に光耐性と闇耐性）、下手するとクリア目前まで弱点がそのままという場合もあり得ます。

尤も、レベルやカードで習得した耐性はペルソナ合体で継承可能なので、優先的に継承させたり耐性をまとめたペルソナを全書に登録したりしておくと効率が良いかと思います。

$70 for a remake is already absurd, and locking content behind a paywall is even worse (episode aigis the answer)

I've been looking forward to Reload because P3FES is my fav in the series and I just hoped that Atlus will iron out some gameplay problems that the original game had. I don't care about the difficulty side of things much but the balance in Reload is definitely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ because of theurgies, I just feel like there's not much reason to strategize and that's the worst you can do with the battle system in JRPG. It takes some dedication to make Reload even easier than vanilla Persona 5 honestly. What really disappoints me in Reload though...
While the cutscenes certainly look prettier, they definitely lost that Evangelion-ish vibe to them, you can see that even in the game's opening. And the sound design got worse across the board too.
While original Reload tracks like "It's Going Down" and "Color Your Night" are good, most of the rearrangements sound like YouTube covers. "Unavoidable Battle" , "Master of Tartarus", "The Battle for Everyone's Souls", are very illustrative examples of the changes to the soundtrack, the drums in some tracks just have less punch to them, the tracks with emphasis on guitar have less distortion. I ultimately have mixed feelings about this iteration of P3. Reload feels like a safer, blander version of the game. I wish there was a neutral recommendation button for cases like these, but I feel that Reload is overall a lazy effort.
I just hope that Persona 6 will be worth looking forward to.

I bought the most expensive version of Persona 3 Reload and I'm not even receiving the expansion pass.
I remember clearly how they said that all downloadable content was included with this version, in fact, it was a complete SCAM. I did well waiting to make a review.

IT'S BEEN THE WORST EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE WITH A COMPANY, and never expected it would happen with Atlus. After enjoying all their games now I have something bad to say.

I'm so disappointed.

Persona 3, and all of the remakes that have come after the initial release, have all been good games. Narratively, they've been strong. However, unfortunately, Reload does very little to modernize P3 and bring it up to par with the $70 pricetag. The game has been "remade", yet outside of quality of life changes and a few new story bits, very little has been done to change the game to warrant the pricetag. Aesthetically, the game has been greatly improved, giving it the Persona 5 treatment but maintaining unique UI elements and stylistic choices rather than the flashy styles of Persona 5. However, mechanically speaking, the game is relatively the same as previous P3 releases. Social Links still only serve as a social feature, without having any gameplay appeal. Some of the links that could have been removed and replaced with actual significant characters (looking at Moon link) are still around.

It feels, to me, like a huge waste of potential to bring P3 up to the standard set by P5 and even just P4G.

If you haven't played Persona 3 before, this is the definitive release. It's better than every other version, easily, but it still brings very little new to the table if you've played any Persona 3 release previously. If you've never played Persona 3, I highly recommend this game. If you have, just know that it's not bringing much new to the table, and is basically just an improved release, not an actual remake.

I recommend this PRODUCT at a lower price, maybe half or 1/4 of its full $70. If Atlus were cool they would have included the Aegis section as a part of the base game like they did in Persona 3 FES (10+ years ago) not as some add-on/expansion.

I'm getting massive updates for this 17GB game of which I can only ASSUME it is DENUVO related or some insane anti piracy software burdening the user experience. Who knows because they never take the time to explain what exactly is going on with these patches.... their descriptions are too vague. We are RPG customers who I assume like to see the numbers and know what is actually going on with the systems.

As for the actual game, I love it. If you ever wondered where Pokemon came from Shin Megami Tensei is the original and Persona 3 is a spinoff of SMT. There are some insane demons in this series you can collect and use them to fight your foes. Most if not all of the angels/demons are taken from real life religious and mythological lore implemented with interesting stylistic liberties.

The quality of life options are good or at least on par compared with the other modern Persona games.

The story is fairly interesting and comparable to some of the best anime series.

Such great ideas and animations in this game I wish they would have been more consumer friendly and not use the same old greedy tactics that most companies use nowadays. Larian proved that if you're on the same side as the consumer, give us what we want then we'll happily pay for your games and spread the good word.

Absolutely loved persona 5 but this one is not for me unfortunately

this sucks

I died and lost 6 hours of progress. This game Is amazing.