Persona 3 Reload... final game in the modern trilogy for me and honestly liked it a bit better than I expected. Coming from Persona 5 Royal as my first persona game, this game falls a bit short in gameplay aspects but nonetheless similar to Persona 5's combat system. I would say the battling is the most satisfying/fun part of the game, outside of that though, gameplay feels a bit.. tedious? repetitive? I mean after a while I found myself spending evenings doing nothing but increasing my social stats, then after finishing that I literally just had to skip days at a time because nothing was going on and I was already so caught up ahead on what I was supposed to be taking my time on.
Majority of the game feels pretty bland until it progresses, which even then for the amount of time you spend trying to progress the pace feels pretty slow starting out but it's a classic persona formula for the games to pick up after July or so. Story felt full of more plot twists than Persona 4 Golden (which is odd to say because that game was more of a murder mystery plot than an actual story.) More unexpected plot twists here, I could say I enjoyed them. The story is brutal, but the premise behind it is beautiful.
The music was also ... half and half? I've never listened to the OG soundtrack but some tracks became a little unbearable half way through the game. Tartarus theme, Want To Be Close after a few months, and some of the battle themes unfortunately. Persona 4 and 5 definitely take the cake for soundtracks for me but this is opinion based, enjoy what you want.
Overall I would say I enjoyed the game. The emotions were as high as P5R for me, the ending was good but takes a while and some effort to get to. You could honestly watch this on Youtube like P4G because both games are dreading in their JRPG aspects. Definitely better than P4G (Probably until P4R comes out) but behind P5R.
I can say that I was blessed enough to be able to play this game
