When you’re not attending school and establishing bonds with people in a calendar-based structure, you ascend Tartarus with the help of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), exploring floor by floor. During nights with a full moon, you fight against a variety of otherworldly bosses.

The other main difference is that Merciless difficulty doesn’t allow us to carry over our progress from previous playthroughs. I have to admit not being able to bring my Personas and equipment into New Game+ makes things even harder.

The third difficulty is called Normal, but the name is misleading. The game gets serious and implements permadeath. You can’t resurrect your character, so once he dies, the game’s over. You can start again from your last save, but enemies deal a lot more damage.

But don’t take the above as a criticism. I’ve found that having now played a Persona game for each of the last three Januarys in a row, the series, and Persona 3 Reload especially, makes for some of the best video game escapism you can find. And that’s an extremely valuable selling point during a month that can be a real slog. 

Aos poucos é revelado que Mitsuru e os primeiros membros dos SEES tiveram certos problemas pelo passado, este que resultou na saída de um deles.

The second difficulty is called Easy, and as the name suggests, it gives you almost zero challenges. It functions almost the same as Peaceful difficulty, but enemies deal slightly more damage.

The player only directly controls the actions of the protagonist. The other members of the party work on their own, but can be guided through specific tactics assigned to each of them, such as maintaining the health of the party, or going all out with Persona attacks.

’s repetitive Mementos stages rather than its complex palaces, but seeing its hallways rendered from a new perspective — more of an over-the shoulder 3D rather than the original god’s-eye view — made the contrast rather stark. There just isn’t much going on in Tartarus. It’s a twisted version of a high school with a few enemy shadows lurking.

If accepted, they will temporarily leave the party to search that floor. The party member will return to the party with any items they found upon traversing the next floor.

And the structure was so repetitive that I got turned around fairly easily. The train battle sends my party down long, straight stretches with few visual distinctions and only a couple enemies per section. This hews very close to the original game, but is barren by modern standards. Persona 3 had less going on than later games in the series, but there is something much more striking about that lack of substance modernized.

I started on Normal difficulty, but I moved to Hard mode about halfway through the game as I began to master the systems, but it’s not for the faint of heart. And, of course, the fifth difficulty is Merciless. That’s it for my

Nyx Avatar's movesets are now completely revamped to resemble former Full Moon Operation bosses and it gains new signature attacks in place of others.

Fully immerse yourself in an emotional, gripping journey with new scenes, character interactions, and additional voiceover. Choose how to meaningfully spend each day through various activities from exploring Persona 3 Reload Gameplay the Port Island to forging genuine bonds with beloved characters. Build and command your optimal team to take down otherworldly Shadows and climb closer to the truth.

Então, ouvindo a voz do garoto de que lhe entregou este contrato, pega este Evoker por Yukari e assim consegue trazer a sua própria Persona pra fora.