Explore the key differences between Persona 3 and Persona 3 Reload, including new animated scenes, updated graphics, and gameplay changes.
Differences:
- New animated scenes
- New and improved songs
- Brand new voice cast
- Updated graphics
- 2 new difficulties
- New story scenes
- Some dialog rewritten
- Can now fast forward cutscenes (cinematic sequences)
- Can now view cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) logs
- Linked Episodes for male Party Members
- Female Social Links have platonic options
- Only one sport option for Chariot Social Link
- Social Links can't be Broken, and Reversing them is harder
- Can now receive messages
- Can now fast travel
- Can now garden and harvest plants
- Can now use computer at dorm
- Can now hang out with Party Members at night
- All Social Links voiced
- Elizabeth's Requests remade
- School questions remade
- Sleeping in Class gives Courage
- New stores at Iwatodai Strip Mall
- Can visit Fortune Teller at Club Escapade
- Can visit Be Blue V to learn new skills or relearn old skills
- Can obtain costumes
- Can now dash
- Tartarus remade
- Some floors have special events
- Floors don't reset until you leave
- Splitting up Party Members only for a specific event
- Shadows on field can have Status Ailments
- Twilight Fragments for locked chests
- Great Clock door for extra Exp.
- Entrance Clock requires 7 Twilight Fragments to heal all HP and SP
- Monad Doors and Passage are throughout Tartarus instead of the Entrance during endgame
- Reaper can chase you up floors
- Party Member Skills remade
- Fuuka's navigation abilities remade
- New Theurgy moves
- Can now use Shift
- Can now Direct Control Party Members
- One More system based on Persona 4
- Characters won't stumble if they miss
- Light and Dark have attacks that don't instakill
- Fatigue system removed
- Guard replaces Wait
- Some enemies stats remade
- Buff/debuff extension
- Shuffle Time remade
- New shadow models
- Some bosses altered
- Golden Shadows remade
- New Personas
- Personas Stats and Skills altered
- Velvet Room remade
- Search option for fusing
- Can choose skills to carry over while fusing
- Skill Cards are brand new
- More New Game Plus advantages
- Online Functionality
- Trophies
- Downloadable Content (DLC (downloadable content — extra missions or items released after launch))
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