Persona 3 Reload Social Links Can't Break
In Persona 3, you build Social Links with different characters by spending time with them, which can help form friendships and even serious romances. But of course, if you're dating one person and decide to start seeing another, they'll get upset. The same goes if you stop hanging out with them or make bad dialogue choices--if this happens, you'll break the social link, meaning you can't fuse Personas with their respective Arcana. However, the remake is removing that feature altogether.
"In [Persona 3 Reload], the 'Broken' system has been removed, director Takuya Yamaguchi told Famitsu (as reported by Noisy Pixel). "The 'Broken' state itself would only occur if something was already wrong in the original version, and I thought it would be too bad if a 'Broken' outcome happened and the Social Link could no longer progress. Therefore, after much thought, I decided we should remove it entirely."
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Another mechanic the original Persona 3 is known for is 'reversal', something that was removed in the sequels. If you stop spending time with a character, make the wrong decisions in dialogue, or double book, your relationship will deteriorate, reversing your progress. The difference here is that you can repair the relationship and grow the Social Link again.
"'Reverse' can still happen," Yamaguchi said. "The conditions have been made severely less strict, so simply leaving a Social Link character alone will not cause it to Reverse, as it did in the original version."
It isn't clear what will reverse a Social Link in the remake as not spending time with someone is no longer the main factor. It's likely that all the other causes will still be present, even if the
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