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Metaphor: ReFantazio: The Kotaku Review
7.10.2024
Throughout Metaphor: ReFantazio’s roughly 80 hours, the RPG’s protagonist carries a novel with him as he travels through the fantastical world of the United Kingdom of Euchronia. The book depicts an idealized metropolis of skyscrapers where equality is written into law. It’s clear this story...
Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer: The Kotaku Review
9.9.2024
As a “definitive” edition of the phenomenal 2006 RPG, 2024’s Persona 3 Reload was lacking in a few key features like the 2009 PSP port’s female protagonist route. Still, perhaps the most egregious omission was the lack of The Answer, the meaty, playable epilogue that was included in the 2007...
Four Hours With Metaphor: ReFantazio: A Promising Game That Atlus Should Let Speak For Itself
28.8.2024
One of the most confounding things about video games is how they often tell stories that are clearly meant to be real-world allegories rather than escapist fantasies, but are still often framed as such by the companies that make them. After playing four hours of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming...
Persona 3 Reload’s Story DLC Is Only Available As Part of $35 Expansion Pass
13.3.2024
Episode Aigis, the contentious DLC coming to Persona 3 Reload this September, is going to cost players who own the base game a pretty penny. To be precise it will cost $35. That’s because it will only be available as part of the game’s Expansion Pass, which bundles three pieces of post-release DLC....
Persona 3 Reload Producer Explains Why The Epilogue Is DLC
12.3.2024
At Xbox’s Partner Preview showcase last week, Atlus announced that Persona 3 Reload would be receiving the original game’s add-on epilogue, Episode Aigis, as DLC at the tail end of an expansion pass. The expansion pass, which will cost $34.99, will also have two additional waves of DLC before...
Persona 3 Reload Getting Much-Requested DLC, But There's A Catch
6.3.2024
It turns out that Persona 3 Reload, a remake of the original game released earlier this year, will be getting its much-requested DLC “The Answer” after all. As part of today’s Xbox Partner Preview, Atlus announced that the DLC, called “Episode Aigis,” is releasing in September as part of Persona...
Kotaku’s Essential Guide To Persona 3 Reload
24.2.2024
Fans of sprawling RPGs with intricate plots and ensemble casts sure have been eating good the first couple months of 2024. Late January saw the release of RGG Studio’s bodacious Hawaiian-style adventure, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The end of February brings with it the extravagant second...
Persona 3’s Ending Is Still Incredible Almost 20 Years Later
21.2.2024
Persona 3 is almost 20 years old, and as I stated in our review, Persona 3 Reload, the new remake of the classic RPG, solidifies how it was incredibly ahead of its time. Reload knows not to mess too much with a good thing, and that includes preserving its ending, which, after recently experiencing...
How To Get Persona 3 Reload’s True Ending
8.2.2024
Persona 3 Reload, Atlus’ remake of the PlayStation 2 classic, is a 70+ hour-long RPG. Wouldn’t you hate to play all that video game, with all the dungeon crawling, social linking, and question-answering, just to mess up and take a wrong turn, resulting in reaching its “bad” ending? We’re always...
Palworld, Persona 3 Reload, And More Of This Week's Best Tips
3.2.2024
The end of January and first week of February brought with it the launch of a couple long-awaited RPGs—Atlus’s remake of a 2006 classic, Persona 3 Reload, and the Hawaiian-style yakuza tale Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The “Pokémon With Guns” sensation Palworld continues to grow in popularity...
The Persona 3 Cast, Ranked From Worst To Best
2.2.2024
Persona 3’s cast, much like the game itself, is the best one. This is only solidified by Persona 3 Reload’s new side stories that flesh out some of the cast into the best versions of themselves. The third iteration of the Megami Tensei subseries pivots into a supernatural, social sim-driven dungeon...
26 Things To Know Before Starting Persona 3 Reload
1.2.2024
It can be tough figuring out how to manage everything Persona 3 Reload throws at you. Between school life, social life, and fighting demonic shadows during the Dark Hour, your time in Gekkoukan High School is hectic, to say the least. So whether you’re returning to Persona 3 or playing it for...
Persona 3 Reload Leaks Reveal The Answer May Be Coming After All
31.1.2024
Persona 3 Reload, the much anticipated remake of the 2006 Atlus classic, isn’t even out yet but rumors are already swirling about plans for DLC. According to notable leakers in the Atlus community, Persona 3 Reload will be getting a number of post-release expansions that might fix one of...
Persona 3 Reload Finally Realizes Men And Women Can Be Friends
30.1.2024
One of my biggest complaints with the original Persona 3 was that, even if I just wanted to be friends with any of the girls in my party, the game’s social sim elements required you to enter a romantic relationship if you reached the end of their route. When this became clear to me, I stopped...
Persona 3 Reload: The Kotaku Review
30.1.2024
Persona 3 was always the best one. Persona 3 Reload, the from-the-ground-up remake of the 2006 supernatural, social sim-driven RPG, just eliminates any doubt. A complete visual overhaul, new mechanics, and new music all reinforce what made the original a stellar, poignant, and radical game for...
Hands-On: Persona 3 Reload Fixes One Of The Original’s Greatest Sins
16.1.2024
There’s been a lot of deserved criticism thrown Persona 3 Reload’s way for not implementing Persona 3 Portable’s female protagonist route into its ground-up remake. However, we’re not talking enough about one of the few parts of the female protagonist route that did make its way into the modern...
Metaphor ReFantazio Borrows Persona's Most Compelling Mechanic
12.12.2023
Metaphor: ReFantazio is an upcoming fantasy RPG from the team behind the Persona series, and it looks like it’s taking all the best parts from the wildly popular series. A new 14-minute-long breakdown trailer shows how it’s adapting different Persona games’ social and time management systems...
Persona 5 Tactica: The Kotaku Review
14.11.2023
Persona 5 met with near-universal acclaim when it came to the West in 2017, and was widely credited with revitalizing the turn-based RPG after a years-long slump. In the six years since its release, some have argued that P5’s villains are excessively evil, but our real-world corporate overlords...
What Each Edition Of Persona 3 Reload Will Get You
20.10.2023
Persona 3 Reload, a full-fledged remake of Atlus Games’ beloved 2006 role-playing game Persona 3, is set to release on February 2, 2024, for Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows. So take a deep breath and relax, you’ve still got a bit of time to play through October’s busy fall releases before hunkering...