P3's ending is decided by a single "yes/no" choice near the end of the game and the correct answer is extremely obvious.

I know in Persona 5 you want to complete all the social links for the good ending

You do not need any Confidants in P5 to get the good ending, and the "true" ending in P5R only requires one specific Confidant.

There's a bad ending but it's ridiculously obvious to spot so don't worry

I played it twice and a lot of the emotional scenes still get me. One of the best JRPG stories hands down

Just finished it yesterday and it is an amazing game. Already downloaded my favorite songs from it lol

Yup, he died.

The dlc is really grindy BUT the story is excellent and give you better closure

And yes this post is very frequent, but that is hardly a bad thing

I made one of those posts myself a few months ago (this was my introduction to persona)

And i think its beautiful, that a piece of media exists that makes us all feel and care so much

Ill never not upvote one of these posts

If you've ever heard of Gnosticism, it's very symbolic of success with that to me. I think protagonist feels very accomplished before his inevitable death. It is pretty sad but also very happy. He did in fact save the world and all the people he loved. And I'm not sure your idea of the matter but I'd much rather be one who pays a price than all of my loved ones

Felt the same way and I just finished it too.

I wanted him to live. He does in my headcanon.

Like it’s almost not fair. Everyone thinks he’s gone but he shows up in front of school. Lives normally for a month, but then randomly passes. It’s one of my few criticisms with the game as the “good ending” makes me more sad than it does happy.

In P4 Arena, the P3 cast talked about finding a way to undo his Seal and bring him back another way.

But, that was the last time that topic ever came up before dropping it, and any further cameo of P3.

Besides the spinoffs and collab DLCs, anyway.

But, yeah, 3s theme is Death, so it makes sense that it's somber as hell.

I felt the exact same. If you can play Episode Aigis please do the combat is mid af but worth it for the story and conclusion

I like the idea he was dying, but he pushed on to hear his friends that last time before he fully passed away. When they get to the roof, he heard them. And then he passed

I used Yoshitsune maxed out so I could focus on getting all of the Social Links I couldn’t get during my first run through

Personally I used the first playthrough for the gameplay and challenge and during the second one I just kinda steamrolled to focus on the story, you can do whatever tho :D

it's a single player game why would anyone frown at you for playing how you want

People do both.

I re-grind but put focus on personas that I didn't use before.

There's a "bad ending" that's happy on the surface, but is actually much worse than the true ending. I'm sure that one will be in Reload as well. But it also skips the entire last month of the game, including the final boss.

If you're talking about The Answer epilogue, then that's all about coming to terms with the events of the true ending of the game. No, it won't be in Reload.

I don’t think having that spoiled is that bad considering the circumstances, it’s kind of vague at the ending and some players don’t even realise they die anyway even after seeing the end and no I doubt they would change the main story of the game for Reload that’d defeat the point. One of the main themes surrounding the game is Death so removing that from Reload well ATLUS might as well have prioritised making P6 instead

You seem quite set on thinking that the ending you got spoiled on is the bad end, but that's the true ending. You won't really be able to understand it since you haven't played the game but it's the actual ending and you may find it hard to understand without full context. So I mean as for all games people get spoiled on, play the game if you want, you'll still enjoy the game if you like it.
By the way just because a story has a character die or something sad happens at the end doesn't make it a bad end, though I get your thinking. Also theres no way they'll change the ending in Reload, it's pretty important to the themes of the game as well as just being a iconic ending.

I’ve played Persona 3 FES and Portable several times and even though I knew how the game was gonna end, going through the story was worth it because of the themes it deals with and the different character interactions. So even if you already know how it ends, you still don’t know how or why it got to that point and that’s something you can look forward to if you ever decide to play the game.

I always viewed the traditional Bad Ending for this game, as the good ending. At best all the negative people wake up in the dark hour and Shadowize; but it never looked liked everyone died in the bad ending.

Just my theory.

Max all S links and that’s pretty much all there is to it. You get some pretty awesome cutscenes if you max them all out and you get some cool shit afterwards. So just max them all out and that’s the best ending possible.

only three ending really, selling out your friends, excepting Igor's deal and the true end. Just don't sell your friends out and don't except the offer to get the best end, luckily for everyone the endings are very straight forward and easy

Not finishing the game is the best choice ,because in all others... it ends (cry)

I guess that would be max all s.links with the true ending

Max out all of your social links, deny the false Igor's offer, and don't sell out your teammates or confidants while being interrogated.

Maxing out every social link provides some unique cutscenes toward the end during the final battle, and some unique dialogue in the epilogue. I'd say that is the true "perfect" ending as you would have bonded with all of your friends and confidants by the end of the story in a way that gives a satisfying conclusion to the stories of every character you meet.

Ye seems about right . I played P3FS I cried at the end . Cried at the end of P4G and Cried again at the end of P3R . Last but not least I Cried at the end of P5R

P3 was such an emotional game, and explored some much more heavy themes than I expected it to. Because of that no other persona game will probably beat it for me. The message and way each character is written to go with the games themes is just so good. Wait till you play p4g, it may not be as emotional as p3, but you’ll grow really close to the characters in that one

I just finished yesterday night and stayed up till 4 am to do it, so I sympathize with you so hard rn. I also knew about MC's death at the end, but def was still not prepared for that shit cause I cried till about 5 am. I gotta say, though, I definitely played the game very differently because I knew about the end. It felt like I was really trying to make the most of the time the MC had left.

Congratulations! How was maxing out the social links, how many playthroughs did it take for you took me two and i got the plat in p3r and p5r too missing p4g, the persona series is amazing !

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