the other day on twitter (i have relapsed. very bad. i need to ban myself from that stupid site i swear.) i noticed some silly little goofy news about a persona 3 remake which of course. proceeded to make me entertain the idea of picking the game up again. and this time i actually finished!! which is honestly crazy. (for context, the first time i attempted playing at least a version of p3 was in may 2020 ). i tried playing fes on an emulator and i vaguely recall using the game as an excuse to call my friends like a playthrough or something. but obviously that didnt take off. probably because it was on the only family computer which was rather inaccessible and also fes just wasnt sticking with me :/ it took like, 75% my time just to figure out how to navigate orz. also my little brother hogged the computer anyways. oh well. i legit became trans before i finished p3 BYE.
SO eventually for whatever reason in january 2022 i decided to pick up the game again. but on portable this time instead. with the emulator on android. which was a great decision, actually. like i was able to actually play through the game this time???? crazy. (well not really all that crazy. i kinda need constant access to smth to finish it @_@). unfortunately that time around around i only made it to... late october (in game ofc). then i lost motivation to play RIP </3. according to my photos it looks like i just got really into twisted wonderland and proceeded to forget about p3p LMAOOOO. trying to look up the 2d cutscenes also took a lot out of me @_@. i cant really remember my thoughts abt the game though. i DO remember that i fucking hated tartarus. the first full moon operation's design was sooooo cool though. like, fighting in a moving-to-soon-be-crashed train?? kickass. the time limit was soooo stressful though. oh and also the second full moon SUCKED ASS because of the whole "you get split up gimmick" LIKE WTF WAS THAT. OMG STOP. somehow i forgot that akihiko shares his va with eichi tenshouin though??? insane. i also remember an encounter with a classmate who asked me if i was playing genshin impact mobile? that was a little goofy. some finds include the fanbook uploaded to the internet archive but with all the images sourced from...ehentai? thats gotta be the second most out there image sourcing ive seen. the other being from. discord. why??
okkkk so that brings us to now!!! i picked p3p up again on a whim and i TOTALLY forgot how fun the game was :P. i was at around 40 hours on minato's route when i quit? so i just picked it up from there ^_^. unfortunately i had forgot a lot of the plot points... but i eventually remembered via context clues ^^! in relation to the plot ahh. i was totally steamrolled by the sheer amount of plot twists!! and just when i started playing the game again!!! what the hell. ugh. i always knew ikutsuki was suspicious :/. i really enjoyed the last school trip when yukari and mitsuru were able to talk it out :) their relationship the last few months was so sweet omg... standing for each other till the end... girlies goin out shopping...so sweet T_T. lets go lesbians lets goooooo (fire emoji). the bath scene was uncomfortable to sit through tho. skull emoji. ugh right after that though. chidori's death was so crushing i kept guessing right till the end it really looked like she was gonna make it there but noooooo T_T i miss her... oh and then ryoji's reveal. HELP.
oh. and then 12/31 came. and i realized i needed to climb 60 more fucking floors. what the actual fuck ryoji. after that, sees decided to go out to celebrate the new year... but with the soundtrack change and everything it felt more like a slow sense of dread more than anything. the career meetings at school too... everything about needing to slug through daily life when the world is falling apart around us. ow. i felt really bad for everyone i was dating the last couple days too :( for some reason i didnt actually start dating anyone till like. january. i dont know how that happened. we got so little time together :(
on the topic of the romance social links whatever. i dunno if its just me but mitsuru's link esp felt a lil contrived,, idk. i felt like super weird getting with her right after i helped her out of an abusive relationship :/. likeeee something just wasn't clicking in my head @_@. maybe itll be better when i get to her link as kotone. i do have to say though i loved how during her rank 10 event we can say that we prefer sitting at the back of her motorcycle SDFDGF. you bet i chose that bless u minato o7.
aigis' link was so sweet though,, :') it totally felt like an extension/neccesary part of the main story and i really wish some of the events didn't take time or something because i did have to replay the last month to finish her link SOB. BUT ANYWAYS. her link made my soul HURTTTT aigis i love you so much. it was so sweet to see her grow throughout the game T_T. I FEEL SO BAD FOR HER TOO... the way the ending takes place during the spring the fact its her first spring the season of flowers blooming and coming to life yet....ohhh my god i am unwell. also she is so trans coded. mic drop.
akihiko's link was real sweet too :') hes pretty dense and a lil goofy sometimes but i love him <3. him saying "heres hoping for the best" on the rooftop on. 1/18 hurt a little though. just a little T_T. i also looked up the xmas dates online cuz i never got a chance to do that bc. time. and OH MY FUCKING GODDDDD. adfsghdfsd the fact that we had nowhere to sit in his room though BYE??? i honestly thought that like, his computer was on his bed at first. skull emoji. ALSO THE RABBIT DOLL . LOOKING LIKE US. THAT WAS REALLY SWEET. ME WHEN I DIE. i do have to admit its really fucking funny that after we accept his confession he just has zero fucking couth. like it just goes from 0 to 100 LMAO. the tartarus lines..."if this wasn't tartarus i might be enjoying myself/besides, theres nothing bad about waiting until later to have fun"...girl...and the post-rank ten event. good lird. i shan't say. how many fucking times can you bone akihiko in this game. HELP. i swear theres so many
oh and in regards to the romances its sooo icky how theres no choice to date everyone (at least with the male route) but the game still...pushes monogamy pretty weirdly?? not to mention all the cheating jokes that ppl make :/ like. ew. anyways polyamory ftw ten million fire emojis!!!
also oh my god. right before the final bosses. sees got together to chill at the playground and it was really really so sweet ohhhh my god. :') i dont have much to say about the actual final boss(es)? takaya lying on the ground was pretty funny. but other than that it was pretty easy. probably cuz i was playing on beginner.
and finally in regards to the ending, i actually thought that aigis had known we were slowly dying those two months :( cause her smile and the tears i was like oh.... shes known the whole time... shes a robot and probably really in tune with our vitals she's gotta know... and shes figured out a way to live as human without just us :') ...but i guess that isn't how it turned out T_T
unfortunately i feel sooooo unqualified to make comments about character development cuz i legit dont remember half the game @_@. i will say that the pacing is kinda icky and backloaded though.
while i was away, the cutscenes mod was released!!! eventually i got around to installing this and omg. it was pretty awesome. except for the fact that i still dunno how to get aemulus working @_@ so im just. not gonna install mods with that. speaking of mods, at like the 50 hours mark i suddenly got super sad i couldn't hang out with like, half of sees. so then i got around to installing this mod so i could talk to akihiko and junpei at least!! omg it was such a pain though. the method in replacing the .cpk file and making another iso file was just... not working at all and the iso was sooo broken also not to mention storage space??? ugh. so i put everything in the bind folder and it somehow worked. anyways in the end I wasn't able to hang out with ken or ryoji cuz i had already maxed out maya and keisuke and they replaced their links. i dont care about ken's link cause i've heard about how creepy it is but i was actually so sad to miss out on ryoji's :(.
by the end of the game (on beginner mode....), my stats were: max academics, max charm, and 5/6 courage @_@. time management is hard... my main team the whole game was yukari (70), akihiko (70), and aigis (70)!! I was able to max out the links of: sees (ofc), mitsuru, hidetoshi, the old couple, kazushi, maya, keisuke, maiko, pharos, bebe, tanaka, akihiko, akinari, the nyx annihilation team (ofc lol), and i replayed the last few weeks to max out aigis ^_^. I WAS SO SAD NOT TO GET TO YUKARI'S LINK LIKE... AT ALL... damn you charm requirement @_@.
unfortunately for persona games... i don't feel comfortable interacting with a lot of the online (twitter, reddit) audience for various reasons O_o. not to mention the terrible jokes too... yikes... ugh. i need to block twitter. i totally got back on it once summer break hit... unfortunately i cant block reddit because it's actually useful sometimes. oh well.
anyways because i never got to hang out with a lot of the cast, im gonna do another run as kotone!!! cant wait ^_^!! rereading everything has been suuuper fun so far!! byeeee 4 now :3