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your music god

I thought the first lines were, "We must stop..drink and f*ck..and work away..from a selfless role." That would have been cool af..

Remember you will die

burn my bread🗣🗣🗣

I remember when I first played this back in 2007, my immediate thought was "this is peak anime" (... and then 4 came along)

Look forward to them screwing this up in Reload :)))

anime jesus

this cutscene lowkey goes hard

They should've made a whole anime in the older edgier artstyle, it looks like some morbid children's book.

the remake of this fight is so easy… and so GREEN

10:02 power charged gods hand nullified pain

Damn

The VA in Reload did an excellent job, but honestly, it was the least of Reload's problems. The direction and cinematography is just... better in this old ass 2007 PS2 game than the 2024 HD Remake. And to be clear, I'm not a Reload hater. I think it's a way more polished game in virtually every aspect, but it really bungles up certain aspects and this scene is a prime example. First off, one of my favorite things about the original P3's cutscene direction is its theatrical energy. Characters often step into center frame to deliver soliloquies to the audience. The lighting from the left side, while unrealistic, adds to the ethereal atmosphere--a feeling that Akihiko is having a sort of transcendent experience. In this scene, Akihiko looks absolutely tiny thanks to the fucked up PS2 model proportions, and it actually works for the scene's benefit! The way he's framed directly below Shinji, as if being looked down upon, judged for his actions, makes for a striking image. I find this framing really incredible when combined with Polydeuces's evolution too. You'll notice the way the two faces are positioned perfectly matches Caesar, Shiji taking the role of the larger body that shields the inner figure. The animation is just way better here too. Akihiko's grief progresses in distinct stages: he goes through all five stages of grief in fact. At first, he stands cool and collected, in denial as he speaks casually, but he leans onto the table as he gets heated. Soon, anger takes hold and he bangs his fists and screams at himself. He slowly loses feeling in his legs, realizing that nothing will bring Shinji back, and eventually falls to his knees as he wails and sobs with grief. The whole time, his back faces the camera, he refuses to engage with the audience and acknowledge his true feelings. Finally, however, he finds his inner strength and stands up again, finally facing the camera as he accepts Shinji's death and resolves to keep moving forward. Reload's angle isn't... terrible? But it kind of fails to capture any of this great framing and energy. The lack of gradual progression as Akihiko gets more and more desperate and eventually falls to his knees in despair isn't really captured anymore. He just kind of falls down, cries, and then stands back up, whereas originally, he leaned over the table, slammed it with his fists, his legs wobbled, he sunk to the floor sobbing, gazed upwards longingly, it's a much richer, more effective way to convey this scene.

Finally, Persona 3 is old enough to fuck

3:06 battle start

1:09 "dread" was muffed, which leads alternative meanings

REMINDS ME I STILL LIVE, I WILL BURN MY BREEEEEEEAD

Reload’s biggest problem is that it doesn’t treat moments like this with care. The opening cutscene, the Velvet room, and this. Just felt like it was rushing itself so that the player doesn’t quit immediately.

:D

This is the exact team I used to fight Nyx in all my 2 playthtoughs of 3 Reload and 1 playthrough of Portable.

I noticed that Ken's summoning animation is not fully shown in this version of the game. I know old games had weird censorship but it's kinda odd to censor that.

Even if you don't know all the lyrics, everyone will at least sing the 'burn my dread part'

Aigis didnt see shit or what??? If i saw the person ive been looking for all the year i would be left dead after seeing this

0:23

"A machine is created for a purpose, mine is to defeat YOU. I EXIST FOR NOTHING ELSE!" this line is so frickin badass

if reload does this wrong like a lot of cutscenes that has been watered down, im gonna be so mad

that explosion sound after yukari's dad said how much he loved her is truly haunting.

GOAT awakening

I keep getting this feeling that reload is just going to censor this by just making that scene look like that person’s fanart. (The fanart where the shadow looks with a depressed face as the butterflies cover him.) But yeah, this scene traumatized my 10 year old self

old but gold

Imagine this as a adult swim bumper?

i got into the megami tensei franchise through the original persona 5. i was intending to play 4 next and then 3, but it was this very video that made me decide to play 3 before 4 instead as i thought the imagery and music was amazing. now 5 years later persona 3 fes is my second favorite video game of all time right behind shin megami tensei iv

i just finished the gamne man

yea really late for this but have any of you even remembered in slightest at all that mitsuru and the team members and even junpei really thought chidori was actually dead???. no she wasn't...

I still defend that Junpei had the rawest Reawakenings since Persona 3. The Reload dialogue and cutscene is immensely improved, but I still think he should've sent Jin flying backwards like in the original, it packed so much oomph.

Note: Makoto was trapped in the abyss too because his friends had social links with him and they also worked backwards, they chained him to the real world indirectly and because of them the abyss was stuck in the earth, and as it was stuck in the moment the earth got back to normal after nyx, it probably kept a small place stopped and it eventually expanded once time could not push farther than from where the abyss held it And when SEES beated Makoto you returned his soul to the door, reason why the abyss started to colapse, it was returning back to normal and disapearing as they severed their conection to Makoto The problem was that it was only holding on temporally by SEES presence and then the rrst of the game is their dispute and the fight aganist Eberus, which actually happened The final door showed a vision of what happened to Makoto and transported SEES to him So they actually beated Eberus

I once ran away from the god of fear and he chained me to despair 🗣🗣🗣

What is the context…. Ive only play reload and I haven’t seen this…

loved this game bro it was so good

Yeah... this is still the best opening in the series

Fun fact, at 0:00 Makoto is wearing the S.E.E.S armband, despite not being a member of S.E.E.S yet :)

I think what gets me is that NOTHING… and do I MEAN NOTHING like this ever happens in any of the Persona games. I have no fucking idea how they came up with this but it’s just like… how are they gonna do this in the remake?

What is it about early 2000's anime that they're just so EFFORTLESSLY cool and aesthetic?

imagine seeing this on reload tho

If we see that in Reload Holy shit I’m gonna be terrified

I love the style of this opening playing with graphic design concepts

This game full of surprising details, at minute 2:40 when the voice says "iwatodai" it sounds as if it were saying "I want to die".

Memento mori

I first played Persona 4 Golden and then Persona 3 FES. After this scene, Persona 4 party members getting their ultimate personas lost their significance in my eyes.

It would be pretty funny in the episode aigis dlc to make this a 3d model cutscene just to piss people off :)