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As someone who hasn’t played the FES, portable versions, coming from 4 and 5. Loved it.

Well there you have it. This is a pretty impressive business move get every last cent from your fans.

I’m going to be cynical on this and give it some time. I’m not convinced when they say this will “Complete” it. I’m still hurt they didn’t just give us the definitive addition from the start.

That’s said reload is pretty good and Episode Aigis will also turn out super.

Persona 3 Reload has surpassed 1 million units shipped and digitally sold. That also is quite impressive. It’s truly gone mainstream for better or worse

It’s still early game and they will say anything to get the most fans to buy the base game. I wouldn’t be surprised if a golden or royal like edition gets mentioned in a year. The only way I would consider something like that is it was presented as an upgrade and not paid at full price

So, my understanding is that the reason the evokers look like guns is to elevate the user's stress levels and essentially "scare" the persona out of them when they pull the trigger. And obviously, they don't really fire bullets or the game would be over pretty quickly.

However, do they perform any mechanical function at all? Do they fire some sort of psychic energy, or make a sound, or anything? Or are they essentially just a metal frame with a spring-loaded trigger?

Presumably these questions also apply to Koromaru's evoker collar, since it doesn't seem to hurt him.

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So after the announcement of P3Re there's been fierce discussions about the inclusion of FES/Portalble contents in Reload.

Unfortunately IGN screwed up in their interview which can be found here which said, quote:

Persona 3 Reload will be a faithful remake of the original version, which is sure to be disappointing for fans hoping to play as the female protagonist, and players who wanted to experience all of the content different versions of Persona 3 have offered over the years.

Luckily famitsu also released an actual interview excerpt with Niitsuma today (in Japanese) where he said:

I would like to make this clear so that there is no misunderstanding. "Persona 3 Reload" is a project that started as a remake of the original "Persona 3". However, it does not mean that the elements added in "FES" are not included in "Reload".

This still likely means that that the answer is not included and they clearly state that the FeMC route will not be there - but I personally am kinda a bit less worried.