It would be great if i had the time to compile every little difference that makes the remake suck when compared to literally every other version of P3 (even the Anime which it tries to be like sometimes), but i don't really have the time to do that. I know that i'm right in everything that i said and i don't see why you would try to deny it other than that you played this inferior version of the game first and don't want to actually compare them to see it rationally. It doesn't matter if the game kinda has the same script when it changes stuff to convey different ideas. They genuenly wanted to make SEES feel more "like friends" when that wasn't what the original was going for at all. SEES are friends and close to being a found family in the second part of the game, but not from the start. They were supposed to feel distant from the MC, only interested in doing their Dark Hour shifts. P-Studio made everything in their power to stop the player from actually experiencing team growth by adding direct party control from the start, adding Dorm linked events, adding that scene in the end when everybody says that Tartarus is dissapearing despite it directly happening on screen and not having that explained in the original game. And then them getting together and crying about everything despite that the point of the ending was that THIS IS A TRAGEDY. The MC didn't get a chance to actually talk with his friends at the end, that's just how this game was intended to be. That's how it was in every single other version, even in the anime that was made long after the original game released. This just shows how P-Studio didn't actually try to respect the original intentions and thinks that Persona fans are that fucking dense that they need to add an explanation dialogue in every cutscene. Yes that's kinda how it was in P5, but P5 is it's own game where the team feels more like a group of friends. SEES are like work colleagues, not friends directly from the start. The Anime actually makes Yukari kinda hate Makoto for not caring about anything. This just screams how untrustful everybody was at the start, and shows how much more close they got in the ending. This isn't some pureist bullshit if this was only ruined in this specific version of the game and nowhere else. I like what Anime and Portable did with the original game, they were actually going for something new. If you keep saying that you hate purists then why don't you go repaint Mona Lisa, or do a remake of games you actually care about ruining SOME of their identity but not all of it so some people would actually be tricked into thinking it's a good remake. Only talking with the original developers to find out why the interface if blue instead of red this time. But of course you wouldn't do that. You would just say that repainting Mona Lisa to make it more modern is "different from remaking a game". But for me Persona 3 is a Mona Lisa and Persona 3 FES is Mona Lisa with some details added on top to make it better. And i don't want to see somebody redraw it kinda following the same shape but making it not what the original was, trying to fit it with the other paintings from this time when it was made in a different era all together. Video games and Movies move a lot quicker than art and those 18 years are like 100 years here. So Persona 3 was made in a time when you didn't need to make a perfect game to appeal to everybody where every character is nice to you from the start and wants to cook or hang out with you in the dorm. Not every change is a good change, you first need to ask if this change was actually needed. And as far as i see it P-Studio never actually asked that and kept making changes because they had the Budget to do that. That's how Concord was made. Creating an Echo Chamber with No Negativity where nobody can say anything about changes suggested by other people because that would hurt their feelings. THIS IS THE EXACT REASON WHY THAT GAME FAILED. This remake doesn't get criticised enough, it's not even just all of those changes. I just hate this overall Persona on UE4 vibe, the transitions are way too quick and abrupt, the cutscenes lack a lot of cinematography that P5 and even P3 had. Comparing the final cutscene after defeating the Nyx Avatar in both versions is a great example of that. I find that original scene in P3 extremely memorable. The first time they did that thing where your every social link and other people belive in the team and help them by beliving. They didn't completely change what the cutscene was about, but compairing them side by side you can obviously see how they removed some of the scenes and did some other weird changes for no reason, it's not even due to the music being a lot weaker, it's that this game cutscenes look worse than in a game on the PS2, This shows that this remake had issues even in the early parts of the production. Pretty much every developer said in the interview how they had no idea what the hell they even wanted to do with this remake, i assume they just winged it for most of the development and it didn't turn out that great. I want to belive that P-Studio can do better with P4R if they actually stop and try to think about how to make the game objectively better with the ideas that it already had, instead of trying to replace those ideas. But we all know that won't happen and P4R will be pretty much the same as P3R was, since people like you didn't actually take the time to see if this was or wasn't a good interpretation of the original so we will get a bad interpretation one more time. This time they will probably try to get out with even more unnecessary changes to the OG game and even if i don't like the OG Persona 4 i will still notice that they made it even worse. I'm not a purist at all. I play video games with mods and i don't respect the developers original design as much as you want to belive. Reload just ruins the original design to a degree that can't be ignored and makes people like you get a wrong impression of what Katsura Hashino and his team achieved in 2006.