I don't understand why this exists. Persona 3 is a deeply flawed game that could benefit a lot from a remake to overhaul many of its weaker elements. But from what I played (granted that wasn't a whole lot, so take some of the following with a grain of salt) it's just Persona 3 again.

P3 is a hard game to come back to, especially after P4 and P5. P3's dungeon is dull and tedious from a visual and gameplay design perspective. The story is often unfocused and takes a long-ass time for anything interesting to happen, and even then these plot moments rarely have much of an impact thanks to how dull the entire cast of characters is.

As someone who's already played portable, it feels like a waste of time to play reload. It's probably the best version of the game, but is it really worth shelling out an additional 50 bucks over the portable remaster? Why spend so much time to just make a slightly better version of P3? They had all the opportunity to do something radically different, what with the portable version being readily available. But they decided to remake it in the safest, easiest way possible, never touching up on any of the fundamental problems.