I know this is premature, but I’m kinda worried about this game already.
I think the prologue video stinks. In the OG, we have all these interesting cuts and shots, the moon turns into a pixel for a large screen, the MC is often partially obscured, there are a bunch of extreme closeups of hands and eyes, that wacky lady with the dogs. The cuts are disorienting, the faucet is abrasive. We get these uncomfortable scenes with Yukari, dutch angles, the music gets louder, late afternoon sun the only light in her room, sweat on her chin, shaking hands, she whimpers and drops the gun, fish-eye perspective from the outside of her apartment.
In Reload, we get these super bland establishing shots, all these scenes feel empty, and then we see a generic long shot of Yukari. We get a closeup on her mouth, there’s no sweat. There’s no loud music, but no deafening silence either. We barely see her tremble. She gives up, and falls to her knees, but not before saying:
“tHeRe’s nO wAy, I cAn’T”
I’m not a screenwriter, I’m not a film critic, I don’t like Nicolas Winding Refn movies, but what the fuck is this? It’s not like they didn’t have the reference to work with when this was made. Look at the comparison shot of the train scene. In game the difference is even bigger, because in the original the movement of the other train cars creates this vertigo effect, it’s barely noticeable in Reload.
This feels like a big downgrade artistically, it just feels so bland. Maybe I’m just too old for this shit.
I never played the original or P3:P, but I heard they weren’t including some P3:P stuff that a lot of people wanted. Is that true? If so, this kind of seems like a blatant cash-grab from newer fans that are only familiar with P5.
In Portable, there is he option of playing as a female protagonist (I’ve never played Portable). Reload also doesn’t have the FES epilogue The Answer, but I’ve never managed to play through it myself.
On some level, I’m not all that bothered by these things. All I really want from a remake is to not make it worse, and right now some aspects of the game are definitely worse.
Not everything is included, but it’s kind of split on whether or not that’s considered a good thing. The base game doesn’t include epilogue story The Answer from P3FES, but it was announced that it will be released as DLC at some point. Reception on The Answer is mixed. Also not included is the female MC P3P, and I don’t think we have heard of any plans to include this. The female MC had some different social links, but wasn’t otherwise a huge difference to the game. I don’t really consider these dealbreakers myself, but I’ve seen a lot of people upset over this, especially with the $70 price tag they’re putting on it.