Persona has been my favorite JRPG series for years. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 3 is especially dear to me, but I didn’t get to play it until Persona 3 Portable came🐓 to current-gen consoles back in early 2023. Episode Aigis is the concrete conclusion of Persona 3’s emotional story, but since it was previously limited only to 2007’s Persona 3 FES, I didn’t experience it until the DLC launched for in September.

Episode Aigis focuses on your robotic teammate who learns in the base game what it means to feel, now unable to stop feeling after losing someone dear. In her grief, the desire to turn of🐼f the emotions she worked to master grows so intense that it manifests into an entirely separate being, ma🎃de to carry the emotional burden for her while Aigis marches through her cyclical days as mechanically as possible. She has a recurring dream that she’s chasing who she lost but can never seem to catch up, left feeling defeated and stuck each time she tries.

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Getᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤🤡ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ some closure after the events of Person 3 Reload in this emotional, combat-focused DLC.

As much as I love Persona 3 now, I’m kind of glad I’d never played The Answer before now. I was 1🅰4 when FES launched in 2007 and 31 when I finally played the content with Episode Aigis for Persona 3 Reload, and with more than double the life experience under my belt now, I have more soft spots for stories to poke if they want to make me feel something. ♐And poke Episode Aigis did.

Aigis in her dream about chasing the protagonist in Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis.

Shortly before the DLC dropped, I reopened a personal can of worms that I always regretted had been sealed incorrectly. I loved someone deeply as a teenager and spent my 20s wondering what we could have done differently, so I was elated when they recently reached out to reconnect a few months ago. It went poorly in ways I couldn’t ever have anticipated, so I slamme🐼d the lid back on th🎃at proverbial can and found myself wishing I had just left it alone, and what I hoped might be rejuvenation wound up being a terrible, rocky kind of closure.

Though it was a hapless homecomin𒅌g, it resurfaced a lot of former feelings of grief just in time for Episode Aigis to hit me where it hurt. I saw myself in the girl running with her arm outstretched through the darkness, fruitlessly chasing after someone she would never reach again. I identified with sloughing through layers of repetitive, dungeon-like sadness to get to the root of the problem instead of just letting myself get lost in its labyrinth. I remembered feeling so stifled by leaden emotions that I wished I could just turn everything off, that feeling nothing mightℱ be better than feeling everything if everything was that overwhelming.

Always wondering ‘what if’ when something goes awry is a great way to wedge yourself in a harmful cycle, just like Aigis did. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Her endless mourning crea🏅ted the Abyss of Time, sealing her and her friends in a Groundhog-style rerun of the same day until the🐼y were able to confront and move through their feelings of sadness, no matter how tough𒆙 or ugly it got along the way. Before that person reached out, I thought I had laid my feelings about them to rest, but I think time may have just covered the wound instead of actually healing it. Like Aigis, I was stuck somehow, even if I didn’t realize consciously that I was. And also like Aigis, now that I have ‘The Answer’ to my what-ifs, even if it wasn’t the one I wanted, I finally feel ready to fully unstick myself.

Aigis locking Iwatodai Dorm at the end of Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis.

I might not have had to fight ဣthe physical m♓anifestation of humanity’s occasional call to the void in my efforts to confront grief I didn’t realize was still pinning me in its vice grip, but Episode Aigis guided me as I finally moved through that feeling instead of past it.

The DLC ends with a shot of Aigis running toward a brighter future now without shackling her pain to her ankles and letting it drown her in saꦰdness, and spending all those hours helping her confront feelings managed to help me do the same with my o💎wn before I even realized that it had.

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Persona 3 Reload
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Top Critic Avg: 87/100 Critics Rec: 96%
Released
February 2, 2024
ESRB
M🏅 For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Partial Nudity, S🔯exual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
Developer(s)
P-Studio
Publisher(s)
Atlus
Engine
Unreal Engine 4

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SUBSCRIPTION
DIGITAL
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Persona 3 Reload is a ground-up remake of the RPG clas🎉sic, aligning the aesthetics with ♌the more recent Persona 5. It does not contain any of the changes or extra content from Persona 3 FES or Persona 3 Portable.

Franchise
Persona
How Long To Beat
50 Hours
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty