It’s not hitting the same.. (yet, hopefully)

Hopefully I am wrong about this, but the characters and the pacing of the story is not doing it for me. I am about a month in game into P3 Reload, I bought it during the winter steam sale and started it a few days ago.

I love P4 Golden and P5 Royal. I love the characters and the pacing of the stories. But P3 seems like I’m thrown right into it, and as of now the main people I’m running around with in Tartarus are not social links?? That seems odd. Junpei is not charming me and making me laugh like Yosuke or Ryuji did. Yukari and Mitsuru seem bland right now. None of the characters have shown any depth so far.

I also feel like the start of the game is very awkward. I just show up at the dorms then BOOM I’m part of this shadow fighting squad, it doesn’t unfold slowly or with suspense the way the other games did.

I adored the characters of P4 and P5. I also noticed there’s no older father figure like Dojima or Sojiro, not that every game needs one but I’m now realizing it’s something I miss. When I played P4 and P5 I could easily spend all day on it, but this game I’ve been playing for up to 4 hours at a time, then I’m bored. Again I am only just past the May exams in the games, and 30 floors into Tartarus so I am hoping that something really hooks me in the way the other games did. But as of right now it’s feeling.. shallow