Atlus has revealed that Persona 3 Reload, introduced at Sunday’s Xbox Showcase, shall be a remake of the unique 2007 Persona 3 launch for PlayStation 2, and gained’t embrace the content material and choices added in later variations Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Transportable.

Meaning it gained’t embrace FES’ further epilogue chapter, or Transportable’s game-altering choice to play as a feminine protagonist.

Producer Ryota Niitsuma instructed IGN that “for the reason that primary idea of the Persona 3 remake was to remake the Persona 3, we don’t have the FES and Transportable contents included. We needed to essentially genuinely work on recreating the Persona 3 expertise.”

Niitsuma added that “we have now remade mainly every little thing from scratch as for Persona 3 the unique model. So we have now newly recorded voices, we have now new scenes and occasions. We even have each new and organized music. […] We needed to maintain every little thing from the unique model, however replace every little thing to the trendy day.” The goal is to make the sport as modernized and as playable as Persona 5.

Atlus has launched up to date revisions of each current sport within the Persona collection, together with Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal, so it’s greater than potential it’s conserving the add-ons again for a future upgraded model of Persona 3 Reload. Nonetheless, the omissions are odd, particularly contemplating that the full-featured Persona 3 Transportable was solely very lately reissued on Nintendo Swap, PlayStation, Steam, and Xbox.

Reviewing the reissue in January, Polygon’s Chelsea Stark known as it an “ageing basic”: “Whereas the techniques don’t maintain up when stacked towards the newer titles, I discovered its bleaker tone extra endearing and lovable. It takes work to get to the tip, however the difficult, messy, bizarre story is value it.”

Persona 3 Reload is about for an “early 2024” launch on Sport Go, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X. There’s no phrase but on PlayStation or Swap variations.