Summary

• Persona 3 Reload introduces Missing Persons missions, giving players a new venture outside dungeon-crawling in Tartarus. Find the floor with the Missing on it, rescue them, and receive rewards the next day.
• The game has more than a dozen social links to build relationships with, adding depth and richness. Spend time with friends, engage in amusing cutscenes, and experience emotional moments.
• Building social stats is important, with three categories to focus on: Academics, Charm, and Courage. Answering questions in class, singing karaoke, and enjoying different meals can help improve these stats.

Persona 3 was the first game in the Persona series to offer any eဣmphasis on what you do outside your dungeon-crawling, and perfects this foundation with an ex💛tra layer of things to do that weren’t in any of the original versions of the game.

But alongside all the new additions remain the slew o🐷f fan-favorite activities, features, quirks, and elements that have made the series what it is today. If you&rs⛦quo;re not sure how to spend your free time during Persona 3 Reload, we’ve got our picks for our favorite things to do that aren’t kicking butt.

7 𒉰 Finding Missing Persons

Would You Like Being Stuck In Tartarus?

Okay, we know we said this list wasn’t going to have anything to do with dungeon-crawling, but Missing Persons are a venture a👍ll of their own, somewhat akin to the Mementos missions you could opt into taking in P5. We feel they’re worth a mention, but we concede to putting them first. In Persona 3 Reload, people will periodically go missing in Tartarus, and it’s up to you and your friends to go get them out.

How much actual dungeon-crawling it includes d꧟epends on how much progress you’ve made through Tartarus to that point, with e🍰xploring early always a good idea to free up time for the rest of the month for the rest of your activities. Locate the floor of Tartarus with the Missing on it and help them back to the entrance, and they’ll leave you some sweet rewards at the police station the next day.

6 🌊 Maxing Your Social Links

The Tertiary Characters In P3R Are The Best

With more than a dozen social links with a rotating schedule of availability willing to hang out with you at almost every hour of the day, you’ll never be without a friend to spend time with in P3R. For the first time, we wereꦦ able to build relationships in P3, and they feel richer than they ever have before in Reload.

Whether you’re helping Yuko train the kids in her neighborhood, heading out for a bite with Nozomi, sewing to your heart’s content with Bebe, or building respect and rapport with all the other 💦friends you’re making around Iwatodai, there’s always an amusing cutscene or emotional moment waiting for you just a text friend a friend away.

5 Build👍ing Your Social Stats

Smart, Suave, And Brave

Although Persona 5 expanded the list up to five (which we guess makes sense, thematically), Persona 3 Reload features only three social stats you’ll need to build throughout the year – Academics to help you do well in school, Charm to have the charisma to socialize, and Courage to face even the scaries💛t realities.

There are plenty of ways to build your social stats in Persona 3 Reload, some more interactive than others. Answering questions correctly in class will reward you with a Charm point, while singing karaoke at the mall is a rather Courageous. And what is it about the Seafood Full Meal at Wakatsu that makes you feel so much more Academꦍically inclined?

4 Spending Time With SEES ও

Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork

Though you’ve always been able to hang out with some of the members of SEES as the male protagonist in Persona 3, fans couldn’t help but to notice that all of them were decidedly female, with the MC unable to form bonds witไh his male teammates. Thankfully, Atlu💎s listened, and in Persona 3 Reload, there’s a bevy of ways to spend time with your SEES teammates – and it helps you in several ways.

St𓆉udying with your pals at the table in the dorm before exams gives you more Academics points than studying alone, while also offering an amusing cutscene to add color and light to your teammate&rs🍃quo;s backstories and personalities. All the things you can do at the dorm - watching DVDs, reading, cooking, or gardening, to name a few – are all made better with friends at your side.

3 🔯 Hitting The Mall 🅘

2000s Mall Culture At Its Finest

If you weren’t a teen in the late-2000s, the appeal of being a mall rat may be lost on you, but going to the mall just to loit🌜er and mill about was all the rage back then. Persona 3 Reload perfectly encapsulates this with Paulownia Mall, offering shops and stores most of us only wish we could have had at our own actual hometown malls back then!

Whether you’re in the mood for 🍸shopping at Aohige Pharmacy or Mayoido Antiques, a quick round of a game over at Game Parade, part-time work at Café Chagall or Be Blue V, or you’re feeling Courageous enough to try sneaking into Club Escape, the entire nightclub located at the mall, to get your fortune read or befriend the local monk, there’s always a good way to kill time at Paulownia Mall.

2 Doing Elizabeth's Requests

The Best Ones Involve Hanging Out With Her

You’re introduced to Elizabeth’s Velvet Room requests fairly early in the game – directly after you’ve finished your first Full Moon operation – and can spend the rest of the game doing odds and ends for the lady in blue who’s waiting for you outside the Velvet Room. With dozens of different quests covering plenty of ground in Persona🌌 3 Reload, Elizabeth’s requests are a good way to see the game.

Whether you’re chasing plot-critical requests like the ones that send you up Tartarus to each border floor for the Old Docܫuments sealed within or you’re just taking Elizabeth on various little daytrips so she can experience life like a normal woman, check in often to see how you’re progressing with them.

In exchange, Elizab൲eth offers a wealth of rewards – everything from yen to skill cards🌱 to costumes.

1 Completing The Persona Compendium 𝓡 💟

I Am Thou, All Of Thou Art I

With more than 200 entries in the 🐻Persona 3 Reload Compendium, completing it isn’t going to be any small undertaking – in fact, like in other Persona titles, it can’t even be done in a single playthrough. New fusions unlock in the Velvet Room every time you level up through battle, and as the monsters you’reꦚ facing in Tartarus get tougher, you’ll need tougher Personas in kind.

But filling the Persona Compendium in any game always requires quite a lot of work, and that’s what makes it number one. You’ll need to max all your social links, complete the game all the way through at least once, finish several of Eliza💞beth’s task, and so much more to find the fusion recipe for every Persona in Persona 3 Reload.