fans are already divided over 's new look, with some saying that it looks "soulless" and others praising the water-themed menu transitions.
One of the worst-kept secrets in the gaming industry over the past few years has been that Atlus is set to release a remake of Persona 3. It's been clear for some time now that remake is indeed happening, with m🌳any speculating that it was set to be revealed at the upcoming Xbox Showcase, but all that theorising went out the w🐻indow on Thursday 𒊎when someone accidentally uploaded the reveal trailer to Instagram, seemingly spoiling one of the event's biggest surprises.
Although the leaked trailer is a little blurry, it does give us a very good look at the style that the remake is going for, and it's one that massively resembles . It looks like we're going to be waiting until the Xbox Showcase for our best look at the game, but the new approach has already divided fans, with some loving the inspiration from Persona 5 and others thinking that it works against the game.
On the one hand, there are some Persona fans that think that this new look is "soulless", with particular annoyance going towards how the UI has clearly been inspired by Persona 5. , who pointed out that the combat UI doesn't work here because Persona 3 "purposefully made its UI look like a gun cylinder", something that's much more muted in the remake in favour of a more circular design.
- that Atlus has made Tartarus "look worse than 2006", seemingly because of the fairly intense colour saturation. They also brutally point out that Tartarus is "the only area I've seen that doesn't look like a VRChat map and it still can't hold a candle to the original".
Although it's pretty clear that some of the Persona community isn't happy with the new art direction (or rather, the Persona 5 art direction), the new look has received a fair amount of praise too. In particular, a lot of fans have been particularly excited about the menu transitions, .
, mockingly suggesting that Persona fans can only play the game "on a CRT display in a dark, musty, decrepit room on PS2 with a slightly worn down disc that makes the ps2 whir really loudly", suggesting that some fans don't agree with the "soulless" comments. , noting that the barrel menu looked cool, but that it was "awful to navigate through".