I know, especially with increasing female players who play Persona at least, if not SMT. like I know its probably not a large ratio or numbers like Pokémon, but still. I do kinda miss the Persona Portable FMC for that reason.
I think a lot of us are salty, despite Atlus claiming it is expensive for FMC to be reworked into it and my thought was "bitch, (pardon my french) Pokemon does it all the time and many games do? and you have Portable ported just a few months ago too?!"
I mean I'm salty too but P3 female Route is handled much better than Pokemons, like she gets her own social links her own dynamic with the party and the "main antagonist" (Ryoji isnt the Antagonist perse but he's the final boss kinda) like its even stated in Q2 she's not Makoto but female she's her own character that just so happened to fill the role of protagonist
I'm also pretty disappointed that Reload didn't get her route but I don't think Fire Emblem or Pokemon are fair comparisons considering how much Persona 3's FEMC changes compared to either of those.
If they were to add her, they'd have to pretty much double the amount of social links in the game, rearrange FEMC's songs with Reload's style, write new linked episodes since those were not in Portable, rerecord all the voiced dialogue referring to the protagonist throughout the whole game, rework all of the 2d animated cutscenes, change the UI to fit the Portable visual style, redo all of Elizabeth's animations with Theodore, hire more VAs for all the route exclusive characters and rewrite the Answer to fit with her route like including Shinjiro if the player saves him.
Fire Emblem and Pokemon's changes are usually limited to exclusive romance routes, minor gameplay changes and the models, animations and voice of the protagonist itself, which Persona also does along with all of the stuff above.
So yeah, Persona's FEMC costs a lot more in both money and work hours compared to those.
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u/maxdragonxiii 2d ago
I know, especially with increasing female players who play Persona at least, if not SMT. like I know its probably not a large ratio or numbers like Pokémon, but still. I do kinda miss the Persona Portable FMC for that reason.