


I've never played the Portable version, the idea of clicking through the world and the story being told visual novel style is a big turnoff.

The main complaint for the game is lack of full party control, but if you use your Tactics, more on that in a bit, it's pretty much a non-issue. At least the Journey, never got around to the Answer, whenever I try I realize I don't care to see anything else involving the story. I'm also curious on why they even made her character in the first place if they weren't even gonna make her cannon. Plus I really doubt they will go as far as to make different cut scenes with her as it would make the work load more for them, but who knows. The only thing that the portable version has over FES is the full party control, but imo I really had no trouble with that in FES as you could assign commands to your party.Įdit: If Atlus do decide to make a definite version I really doubt they are gonna add the female MC only because she hasn't been cannon in any of the Persona games. Only go with the portable version if you want to do a second play through.

Even though she has some great social links her presence just does not fit the game imo. Plus some people like to harp on that portable version is better cause of the female MC, but I honestly believe she just ruins the atmosphere. Personally, I believe that you should choose FES, but you can't go wrong with either of them really.For your first play through go with FES only because having full on experience with the presentation and atmosphere which the portable version lacks is the best way to experience Persona 3. P3P also has you control the other party members and really lacks the option of giving orders like FES (technically, you can give orders in P3P, but the options are limited and the AI is worse). Others have different opinions on The Answer, so take that as you will. Unfortunately, P3P lacks The Answer, which imo leaves the game feeling a little incomplete. They took the time to reimagine much of the plot from this new character's perspective and it shows. P3P also contains some extra content and has an entirely separate story with a female main character, which from what I've heard Atlus went all out on. It really helps the immersion factor quite a bit, imo. It also comes closer to retaining the soul of the game in that you only control the main character and give commands to your party. It includes the extra content including The Answer (essentially an epilogue to the game, which wraps up the stories of the major characters and includes some brutal/awesome boss fights).
