Persona 3 Reload launched in February 2024, and while I picked it up during a recent PlayStation Store sale, I’m only now getting around to it. For context, I never played the original PlayStation 2 release from 2006—but I did spend countless hours with Persona 3 Portable on the PlayStation Portable. I ran multiple New Game+ playthroughs back then, experimenting with different Social Links and playing as the female protagonist (a feature sadly missing in Reload). But despite that omission, Reload still feels like the definitive version in many ways.