Persona 3 Reload sadly will not be receiving the playable feminine protagonist, Kotone, seen in one other model of the basic, and now, the sport’s producer has apologized for the exclusion.Â
When Persona 3 Moveable got here out in 2009, gamers had the selection between enjoying as two completely different protagonists. The recently-released remake Persona 3 Reload faithfully tailored a basic and cleaned up a few of its rusty joints, nevertheless it sadly ditched the choice to decide on your gender and protagonist.
“I will start with an apology, however sadly, the looks of the feminine protagonist in P3R is not going to occur,” common producer Kazuhisa Wada reiterates in an interview with Persona Central. “In fact, we thought of the inclusion of the feminine protagonist alongside Episode Aigis, however the extra we delved into it, the extra hopeless it appeared.”
Episode Aigis is the forthcoming growth for the remake, which itself is remaking Persona 3 FES’ epilogue, launched in some territories below the identify The Reply again in 2007. (There’s too many Persona 3s, I do know.) Episode Aigis closes the story with a roughly 20-hour chapter and our titular robotic bestie within the highlight, however including Kotone to the sport would supposedly price “two to 3 occasions of Episode Aigis.” Wada explains that these excessive prices make it tough to “entrust completely to exterior firms.”
“Even when P3R and the Growth Go had been to exceed our gross sales expectations and resolve the price points, the discharge would nonetheless be far off,” he continues. “Moreover, the expectation can also be that we make fully new video games, not simply remakes, so we have to allocate restricted growth sources accordingly. I deeply apologize to the followers who’ve supported us for a very long time, however we’re comfortable that P3R has been launched.”
Kotone stans can nonetheless reunite with the character by way of mods on PC, as a really devoted group have each applied the character and drenched your complete sport’s consumer interface in pink. The top result’s beautiful.Â
In the meantime, developer Atlus is firing from all sides this yr having simply launched Persona 3 Reload and printed technique gem Unicorn Overlord to rave critiques. Up subsequent is the spruced-up model of Shin Megami Tensei 5 that virtually doubles the unique’s already-mammoth playtime. And after that, the studio is gearing as much as launch a kind of “fully new video games” within the type of Metaphor Fantazio.
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