now that persona 3 reload is out, i can't really recommend this as much, but however i am broke and can't play persona 3 reload, so this will be a review for the overall story, character and gameplay itself, and it still manages to be insanely good after it all, i would rather say just play P3R, but if you REALLY just want to play P3P, then go ahead lmao (or just really want to play as FEMC)

Absolutely the worst way to play Persona 3. However, there's still a lot to get out of this game. Amazing story, great character interactions, the core persona battle system is still present and functional. Play Reload instead though.

Definitely the worst version of Persona 3, but still pretty great.. and worth it for Kotone... she deserves the world (this port is absolutely unacceptable though, what the fuck Atlus)

I would rather play fes or reload, but femc is so cool. Other than that it's a compromised port of one of my favorite games ever, and a compromised port is a port none the less.

4.5 Stars for fun, minus 2 for PSP limitations, minus half for ai backgrounds upscaling but 3 plus for femc Kotone

I actually am struggling to think of the right words to put here. This game is beautiful and I’m glad I got to play it at least once.