(FYI, I'm just talking about the remaster instead of actual P3P, I love P3P to death btw so this ain't a review where I act like the game ruined my life. Gonna be writing a review for the PSP version of P3P with my actual thoughts on the game now post reload.)
What the hell happened here? This port is pretty bad. They didn't bother to add the 3d hub worlds, or add the FMV cutscenes and how the game looks and sounds worse than the PSP version. The AI upscaled backgrounds are heavily mixed on how they look, some are...passable but others look like shit. Like paulownia mall, the protagonists room and many more. The audio sounds muffled like all hell for some reason even though they're the exact same files from the PSP version. This looks awful on a TV, I played it on a huge TV that supported 1080p and my god it looks bad. How the fuck did Sega look at this and say "yea it's good. ship it."
Also, Sega has to be a new type of stupid to think this is a good exception for people to play FEMC on modern consoles since from her being excluded from reload, what a joke.
Wouldn't new players playing it just have the question of "why isn't this character in the remake?"
Plus with them not bothering to upgrade the visuals and this being one of the worst ways to play as the male protag and that they cannibalized the sales for this "remaster" by announcing reload not even a year after this came out.
the only reason to play this port is just to play as the FEMC and to hear the OG persona 3 dub.
If you have the hardware, emulate the PSP version. But if you can't, well probably just play this for FEMC or just wait for a suprise femc dlc for p3 reload

Definitely the worst way to play Persona 3. The only reason I can ever recommend playing this over FES or Reload is to play the FemC route which isn't in the other versions. The story and characters are still very good because for the most part it's just a downgraded version of Persona 3, but a lot of emotional moments lose their impact due to the presentation of the game being more limited. All of the animated cutscenes from the original that were used to properly convey dramatic moments are gone and replaced with screenshots of the cutscenes with dialogue over them, or just replaced with the same visual novel style events that happen throughout the whole game. All 3D overworld movement is gone and you now just move a cursor around the screen and click on characters and locations you want. This removes a lot of the immersion from the game and feels very boring. The combat on the other hand is an improvement from FES in my opinion. One of the reasons I didn't enjoy FES from what I played was the combat where you couldn't control your party members, and the entire tired system. In Portable you now have full control of your party and the tired system is much less annoying which makes Tartarus a lot less tedious to go through. Just like the original Persona 3 and FES however, a lot of the time in the game feels very empty. You'll end up going weeks in the game with nothing really interesting happening which got me very burnt out on the game for a while. Overall P3P is still a good game because it has Persona 3 as a base, but its presentation and downgrades make it the worst way to experience Persona 3 in my opinion.

N'ayant jamais joué aux autres versions classique et FES avant, c'était ma première découverte de Persona 3.

Autant j'ai énormément aimé le cast principal et l'histoire dans leur globalité, autant le reste ne m'a vraiment pas plu.

J'ai trouvé l'interface en mode visual novel mauvaise et le gameplay ennuyant et complètement déséquilibré... Mettre un Persona sous ce format n'était pas une brillante idée.
L'exploration du Tartare était un calvaire. On gagne très peu d'expérience en combat et on fait en boucle les mêmes étages générés aléatoirement. Les boss tous les 20 étages (je ne me rappelle plus exactement) sont bien plus compliqués que les boss des pleines lunes, ce qui est frustrant et provoque un certain déséquilibre entre l'avancée dans le scénario et celle dans Tartare.

Pour ce qui est des musiques, c'est assez quitte ou double : soit je les trouve très appréciables avec une bonne mélodie, soit je ne les supporte pas...

L'ajout de la route avec FeMC est cool sinon, et les caméos de certains personnages comme Vincent de Catherine ou une prof et Yukiko de Persona 4 sont sympas à voir.

Mais bref, Portable n'est clairement pas la meilleure façon de découvrir P3 (surtout maintenant que Reload est sorti)

Game is amazing, just a bit dated. Soundtrack is amazing, voice acting is for the most part really good and the Social Links are really good too.

SPOILER Story is amazing as hell. Especially after Ryoji tells you about The Fall, the tension between SEES is just great writing overall.

Also i just have to comment on FemC, and how ass she is. I din’t get why she has so many fans. She has a couple new Social Links with just two completely new characters, who aren’t even good. Both their stories start alright and have good potential but they just waste it so bad. And the other new Social Links, which are the male SEES members, are just alright. Junpei’s SL is pretty alright, nothing special. Akihiko and Ken’s SL’s are just them thirsting for you, Koromaru is just ass. Shinjiro is actually a really good SL though. The only one worth doing. The rest are completely the same, disappointing.

And the “new” scenes you get with FemC DON’T EXIST. The only changes are that they say her instead of him and some very, very minor changes in dialogue. There are only three scenes that are changed “majorly” which are the scenes in Yakushima, the Hot Spring scene and the summer vacation sport team scene.

The Yakushima one is so pointless. The scene is that you’re with the girls instead if doing Operation: Babe Hunt with the guys. But the scene that you participate in (you don’t really) is shown is the Male MC’s route anyways, so you see nothing new. And they show Operation: Babe Hunt anyways so it’s just pointless.

The Hot Spring scene is changed a bit, but it’s a hot spring scene so it’s ass no matter which side you’re on.

And the most pointless on the is the summer vacation sports team trip. In the Male MC’s route, the purpose it has is to introduce you to Mamoru, but in FemC’s route, it’s just fan service cuz they take you to Yasogami and you meet Yukiko. Nothing else. You waste like 8 days for fan service. What the fuck.

FemC does not deserve the attention she gets at all. She should not be in Reload since she’s a pointless addition that had no meaningful differences and was just a selling point for the game.

To start things off, i initially intended to play Persona 3 FES before the remake comes out, but then my save file got corrupted and i lost about 20 hours of progress so i instead started Portable some time later, and my god this game is great, the Story, the characters, the music it's just great, i also really like that the combat in Tartarus is a lot more pleasent with you being able to control your party members and the addition of the female Protagonist, overall this would have been my favorite persona game , but i am not really that big of a fan of the story being told as a visual novel as i feel like, certain scenes don't really hit that hard like they did in the original. (Yes i know it was because of the psp but still) but still it's a fantastic game that i can definetly recommend c: