An expansion for Persona 3 FES
The Answer, also known as Episode Aegis in the Japanese version, is an epilogue of Persona 3. As The Answer is a continuation of the story of Persona 3, it is recommended to play The Journey first. Furthermore, the content of this extra scenario is mainly combat oriented and does not involve any daily life or Social Link mechanics. The chapter is only available in one difficulty setting, which is supposed to be on par with Persona 3's Hard mode. The gameplay is approximately 30 hours long and has Aigis be the playable character in place of the protagonist. The story follows SEES on a new adventure involving a new dungeon, Abyss of Time, which has locked SEES in an infinite time loop within the dormitory. It also introduces a new party member named Metis, a robotic AI similar to Aigis.
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El inicio es interesante, lo que sigue aburrido, repetitivo y la otra mitad mejora mucho, es lo mejor de The answer.
Might as well give this a review while I’m in the middle of my P4AU playthrough.
Honestly? I do think The Answer is kinda overhated but at the same time I can see why people don’t like it. Personally, I think it’s a nice expansion that helps tie up some loose ends in P3’s main story as well as give us a proper look into the characters after the events of the game. I know a LOT of people really don’t like the way specifically Yukari acts in this. Without going into spoilers, I think she was completely justified in her feelings but I do think she’s goes a bit over the top at certain moments but it’s realistic for someone like her who’s going through that sort of situation to listen to your emotions more than your logic.
Now while I like the story of The Answer, the gameplay is something I’m more mixed about. I would consider myself a pretty big defender of P3FES’s gameplay (I think I’m one of the few people who like the AI party members.) but even I can’t deny that The Answer is a lot more tedious and monotonous with it’s gameplay. The great thing about P3’s gameplay was how you were essentially given breaks in between the dungeon crawling through the normal daytime activities like social links. It gave you something to do other than just grind for levels for the next full moon operation. But since The Answer is meant to just be a short (for a JRGP) expansion, they decided to axe out daytime activities in favour of just dungeon crawling. It just starts to feel tiring after a while and it never picks up.
Overall, I would only really recommend The Answer if you want to find out what happened after P3 and you want more Aigis content (which btw her arc in this is very well done).
Honestly? I do think The Answer is kinda overhated but at the same time I can see why people don’t like it. Personally, I think it’s a nice expansion that helps tie up some loose ends in P3’s main story as well as give us a proper look into the characters after the events of the game. I know a LOT of people really don’t like the way specifically Yukari acts in this. Without going into spoilers, I think she was completely justified in her feelings but I do think she’s goes a bit over the top at certain moments but it’s realistic for someone like her who’s going through that sort of situation to listen to your emotions more than your logic.
Now while I like the story of The Answer, the gameplay is something I’m more mixed about. I would consider myself a pretty big defender of P3FES’s gameplay (I think I’m one of the few people who like the AI party members.) but even I can’t deny that The Answer is a lot more tedious and monotonous with it’s gameplay. The great thing about P3’s gameplay was how you were essentially given breaks in between the dungeon crawling through the normal daytime activities like social links. It gave you something to do other than just grind for levels for the next full moon operation. But since The Answer is meant to just be a short (for a JRGP) expansion, they decided to axe out daytime activities in favour of just dungeon crawling. It just starts to feel tiring after a while and it never picks up.
Overall, I would only really recommend The Answer if you want to find out what happened after P3 and you want more Aigis content (which btw her arc in this is very well done).
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7/10
It's fine, I guess. I'm playing this after playing p3 reload
The gameplay is really boring, It's a complete slog, the abyss takes forever just to get to the end since none of the floors feel like they end, the bosses are ok, the evade skills they give them are really annoying and they don't make the bosses difficult, they're just really tedious to beat. Erebus is a cool boss but i wish his HP was lowered a bit more and made it equally as a threat as nyx because erebus is really easy to beat, he just takes a long time to defeat because of how tanky he is.
The story is fine, the story is focusing on the aftermath of the protags death, with how everyone is going their own way of life (pun entirely intended) and everyone not being as close to another, like how fukka calls Yukari in the beginning how she hasn't talked to her in a while, it's obvious that everyone took the protags death pretty badly. I just wished they focused of all of the members instead of just aigis and Yukari, they both did take the protags death a lot worse than the others but how they just make them the main focus instead of the entire group isn't the greatest choice, if they really showed that the entire group was really hurt by his death would be a great choice to fully see for ourselves how the others besides aigis and Yukari took the protags death. I also enjoyed metis there too, even though she's kinda annoying at times,
I enjoyed her character, also how they explain that the shadow that from the start of the abyss from the end of it was the regret of the protag dying and how he can change to other personas from the team (except metis) and use them against you. The choice of the keys of what to do with them is cool, I understand why Yukari is making this choice since with all the shit she has dealt with, obviously someone when they're emotional would probably make the same choice she did if they were in her situation, the fights with your teammates is really cool, the team finding out about why makoto died and the purpose of him becoming to seal to stop people from tatsumi port Island from getting close to nyx, also how they apply that possibly if people stop wishing for death, makoto can stop being the great seal and can come back to life, I don't hate this imo, they end the answer off pretty good, it felt like it wrapped off with a satisfying ending that finally closed the book of p3, the story wasn't perfect but it did a good job for the answer. The OST is pretty cool tho, heartful cry and darkness are really good. Same with the theme for the Abyss of Time.
Hopefully Reload fixes the problems here. it would be pretty cool if when you're fighting your allies, they could shift to each other, that would be cool methinks.
It's fine, I guess. I'm playing this after playing p3 reload
The gameplay is really boring, It's a complete slog, the abyss takes forever just to get to the end since none of the floors feel like they end, the bosses are ok, the evade skills they give them are really annoying and they don't make the bosses difficult, they're just really tedious to beat. Erebus is a cool boss but i wish his HP was lowered a bit more and made it equally as a threat as nyx because erebus is really easy to beat, he just takes a long time to defeat because of how tanky he is.
The story is fine, the story is focusing on the aftermath of the protags death, with how everyone is going their own way of life (pun entirely intended) and everyone not being as close to another, like how fukka calls Yukari in the beginning how she hasn't talked to her in a while, it's obvious that everyone took the protags death pretty badly. I just wished they focused of all of the members instead of just aigis and Yukari, they both did take the protags death a lot worse than the others but how they just make them the main focus instead of the entire group isn't the greatest choice, if they really showed that the entire group was really hurt by his death would be a great choice to fully see for ourselves how the others besides aigis and Yukari took the protags death. I also enjoyed metis there too, even though she's kinda annoying at times,
I enjoyed her character, also how they explain that the shadow that from the start of the abyss from the end of it was the regret of the protag dying and how he can change to other personas from the team (except metis) and use them against you. The choice of the keys of what to do with them is cool, I understand why Yukari is making this choice since with all the shit she has dealt with, obviously someone when they're emotional would probably make the same choice she did if they were in her situation, the fights with your teammates is really cool, the team finding out about why makoto died and the purpose of him becoming to seal to stop people from tatsumi port Island from getting close to nyx, also how they apply that possibly if people stop wishing for death, makoto can stop being the great seal and can come back to life, I don't hate this imo, they end the answer off pretty good, it felt like it wrapped off with a satisfying ending that finally closed the book of p3, the story wasn't perfect but it did a good job for the answer. The OST is pretty cool tho, heartful cry and darkness are really good. Same with the theme for the Abyss of Time.
Hopefully Reload fixes the problems here. it would be pretty cool if when you're fighting your allies, they could shift to each other, that would be cool methinks.
I played the entirety of P3:FES but never rated and reviewed The Answer itself. I think that it was a great side thing to play right after completing the original, but on its own it doesn’t really reach the heights of the actual game. Still love the characters and the aesthetic of the original so 6.5/10.
I played this just after P3 the first time I beat it in 2018, so now after beating Reload I decided to look back at this. It is something that doesn't deserve (In its entirety) particularly high praise nor scathing criticism. It's the story of Persona 3 continued and it does that mostly well. What it does horribly, however, is its pacing. Its a lot of repetition until you clear the dungeons and by that point the game is already over. what's worse is the lack of a Compendium. I realize this game is like a 1/3rd the length of P3 but even so the persona count is well over 100, so why bother to leave it out? This leads to a general disinterest in fusing and finding every persona possible.
I like the game's continuation of 3's story and how these characters are dealing with the events of 3's finale but it just ends up being okay.
Also for what it's worth I don't mind ATLUS releasing the answer several months after the game's launch. The whole point of The Answer is to resolve the questions of 3's finale and Imagine being someone going through 3Load in mid february and still being in august or september in-game, while people who have too much free time are posting nonchalantly about events from later on that the answer deals with.
I like the game's continuation of 3's story and how these characters are dealing with the events of 3's finale but it just ends up being okay.
Also for what it's worth I don't mind ATLUS releasing the answer several months after the game's launch. The whole point of The Answer is to resolve the questions of 3's finale and Imagine being someone going through 3Load in mid february and still being in august or september in-game, while people who have too much free time are posting nonchalantly about events from later on that the answer deals with.
Story isn't as bad as people say, there's some questionable parts, but the ending in particular is quite nice. The new tracks here are also quite good, as per the usual for a persona game. However the gameplay can absolutely go away, no thanks.