I’m worried about the Persona 3 remake

polygon.com:

On its face, Persona 3 Reload is such a tantalizing idea: bringing the series’ defining game up to the polish of Persona 5 Royal, allowing the legions of newly converted Persona fans to experience what makes it so special. As I said when I reviewed the remaster of Persona 3 Portableearlier this year, it takes work to get to the end, but the complicated, messy, weird story is worth it.

But after playing a small slice of the game at a New York-based preview event, I have some concerns, namely about whether Persona 3 Reload might struggle to strike the balance between being an “accurate” remake while still upholding what players would expect from a modern Persona title.

I’ll say that some of these feelings sprang from my surprise that Atlus is choosing to remake the original version of Persona 3. This was before 2009’s Persona 3 Portable got a playable female protagonist, with her own social links and romance options. That has never carried into a later version of Persona, even as each version received a massive, game-defining re-release that renders the original nearly obsolete. The cynical part of me wonders if they’ll do the same thing with Reload — add in a female protagonist three to five years later in Persona 3 Reload Ultra Deluxe — but that seems like a recipe for fan frustration.

But I still strapped in for the 30-minute demo, which included two slices: New Moon, which let me explore the starting floors of the procedurally generated, multi-floor dungeon Tartarus in all its remade glory; and Full Moon, which put me up against the first boss in its story. The visual facelifts extend to the menus, which are updated with the same splashy treatment as Persona 5, while still adhering to Persona 3’s blue-dominant color