Persona 3 Reload - First Playthrough - FINALE Reaction 

Hope you enjoy this highlight of one of my Persona 3 Reload streams! Come join in the adventure on Twitch every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! I'm playing Hades II later this afternoon! Join in the chat on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/semblanceofsanity_yt

The game tells you right at the start that you have 1 year. Technically MC held on for an extra month, but we always knew this was coming.

I'm guessing the unknown sender is probably Ryoji. Makoto looked at the music box Ryoji gave him right before he got the text. And if you go up to the music room before that, he mentions how he remembers a melody being played there once and how it's going to be with him forever. And I honestly think that's really sweet. When Pharos disappeared on 11/4, he remembered his purpose and should've left to bring ruin to the world. But he came back because he wanted to see Makoto again. He defied his fate for the person he cared about. Now, when Makoto makes the ultimate sacrifice, he should be gone. But he also returns to say farewell to those he cares about. Saying goodbye to the people you love caused Ryoji and Pixel to defy the fate set before them. Even if only for a little while. This was an amazing game. And an amazing remake. Love the Persona series so much.

I've played Persona 3 Reload after losing my Uncle unexpectedly last month. I knew nothing about the game, I only bought the game because I really enjoyed Persona 5. This game has made me care about these characters so much that it not only brought me severe worry about these characters safety, but it made me weep so much. This game has helped me mourn the loss of my Uncle, and it is now one of my favorite games of all time. It actually might be my new favorite game of all time the more I think about it. I miss you everyday, Uncle.

1:22:15 A detail i love is that great seal cost all your HP to use. From the moment you cast it you know it's going to be a sacrifice.

Makoto didn't receive the world arcana, but the *Universe* . Thats why Igor is so excited, no one ever got it except Shoto

They really went all out on the deaths in this game. The POV shot with him closing his eyes was amazing. In a way, the trade off for cutscene quality was almost worth it there.

Not many endings have hit me this hard in media. Even when I rewatch it I always get emotional and get close to tears. What an amazing game ❤

Congratulations on beating the game. It was awesome and the ending was very sad but also very beautiful. I was crying from it. Now we have to wait for The Answer DLC

RU-vid notifications decided to protect me from crying again by not working... Too bad I used that time to finish watching the vods of your livestreams! Shamelessly copying my comment from another channel: Honestly, having finally played Persona 3, I realised why Makoto is such a beloved protagonist. The further into the story you go the more you realise just how much he cares for his friends and how they changed him. The Reload version of Burn My Dread is really personal to Makoto, it perfectly characterises him. "I'm ready to seize the day, 'cause I know in your hearts there's a spot for me, believing in me gave me possibilities, it's more like a gift that I don't deserve, so I gotta give it back to you by all means". The whole song is incredible

Thank you for the streams and videos Caleb! One of the best P3R playthrough out there with your reactions and insights. This is my favorite Persona game, all good things must come to an end. o7 Also Makoto went from being apathetic, detached to life to saving the world and keeping the promise they made despite he was suffering. The Great Seal used all of his HP but his sheer willpower made him last until graduation day. According to the words of Igor, he is the MOST remarkable guest.

The cost of using the great seal, the ultimate sacrifice

Living vicariously through any persona 3 playthrough that graces my recommendations. Your reactions to everything are great haha

A great end to a great game. It truly reminds us that THE ARCANA IS THE MEANS BY WHICH ALL IS REVEALED.

1:40:13 “It’s only for like a day” lmao

2:43:10 Love how you can see it in his face the exact moment he realises what's going on 😭

That was a great adventure to re-experience. I'm looking forward to the Answer dlc and hoping we get to watch you play that too. I'm still sad that FemC never made it to the game to become the ultimate P3 edition, but that's just how life goes I guess.

God, this ending still hits

i just finished this its a masterpiece fr at the end when i closed my eyes i thought i was going to sleep i didn’t thing bro was gonna die

Such a fantastic story, as much as I love P4G and P5R their stories don't even come close to this.

Well, would you look at that? Atlus makes more emotional deaths than Square Enix, even with the MC.

The Answer can’t come soon enough!!

Such a journey has come to an end... With all the pain and emotions it brought to us. A beautiful finale, thank you for playing and reacting to this game, for this whole experience. 🥲

Sheeeeesh I didn't realise Bryan Danielson plays Persona too

The fact that Altus making AIGIS tear up in the final actually make it better than origin.Wish they could the best what they can in "the answer" DLC.

This is the exact team I used to beat Nyx in FES niiiiiccceeee

It's the 10th time now i cry when i see this scene...

Thank you

What is it with certain gods and humans that want to turn humanity into shadows?

There are some phenomenal soundtracks out there, but Persona 3 is the only one with Kimi no Kioku

またyakuzaシリーズプレイしてほしいな

Peak

Too bad they made Nyx Avatar an absolute wuss in this ;-; I hope the P6 final boss is actually strong

There is no plot armor, that is what missing from modern writings, this is why so many people liked the game.. MC has no plot armor

02:25:00 😭

No matter the version, the ending always has this glitch were the screen looks watery causing me to scream in emotional pain!

39:06 Yes, the Arcana is the means by which all is revealed... I love the chat everytime Nyx says THE line.

No matter how many times I watch this ending I can never stop myself from tearing up

Peak game. My first way of experiencing p3 but imo, it's a 10/10. It's also the first game to genuinely make me cry multiple times.

It's sad to say goodbye... But the friends you made will never forget us for who we were and the time we spent with them.

Interesting fact about Nyx (assuming this is still treated as canon, since it's only ever been brought up in a book called I think the Persona 3 Club) but Nyx is an outlier to other godlike entities in Persona in that she is not actually born of the human collective unconscious. Instead, in falling into the Evangelion inspiration she is a celestial being that had crashed down into earth. Her body split into two, physical and mental, with the physical supposedly becoming the moon and the mind linking up with and evolving the creatures of Earth, forming the collective unconscious which then seemingly sealed it away as fragments called shadows (Effectively the 'fruit of knowledge' humanity attained). The destruction Nyx would have wrought would be in the form of tearing those shadows from the bodies of the populace, the proximity of its flesh forcefully pulling the fragments of itself rooted into the collective unconscious it created in humanity. I think this is somewhat hinted at early on where we saw cases of the black substance that flowed/was torn out of people's heads who lacked the capacity to defend themselves through personas, as well as the literal end of Evangelion shenanigans happening here. I'm not too knowledgeable on other factors but can't say as to whether the shadows which are canonically aspects of Nyx found in 3 are the same Shadows seen in other games though. Interestingly, Nyx is not described as malevolent or wanting to kill humanity. Ironically, as displayed here through the sorrowful words of Ryoji/The Avatar Nyx itself did not want humanity to die but is in fact a slave to the wishes of the masses and their negative, deep-rooted emotions. This has traceable similarities to the entities of the other games, except that they are wholly born from human emotion and in many cases come to intentionally abuse the weakness of humanity represented in what created them, deliberately trying to stagnate or kill off their very creators.

"Did we take away some aspect of this world's suffering and pain?" Well, your ultimate is Messiah, Jesus... and you did die at the end, so...

P3 final broke me! 😢 What a beautiful masterpiece! My favorite scene in the final is actually a scene after Nyx defeat when we talk to Akinari's mother! 🥲😭💔 God bless her beautiful kind heart! 🙏🏻❤️

Eventhough P5 has all the budget, flashy animation and is arguably the most popular of the franchise, P3 will always have a special place in people's hearts ❤ The shock of losing a friend, the profound theme and this unforgettable bittersweet ending is simply on a league of its own. Theres a reason why almost 20yrs later fans still holds P3 in such high regard.

Oh to hold the whole Universe within yourself... No other protagonist does it like Yuuki Makoto, he's just built different. 🙏 I'd say "may he rest in peace"... But it would probably be more apt to wish him a painless vigil instead. He only has eternity to go.

This is EASILY the best Persona game in my opinion, for a multitude of reasons. 4 and 5 are fantastic, but the story and characters in 3 are just unmatched. Still need to finish Innocent Sin, and while I like it so far, it also doesn’t come close. I was a die hard FES fan, and while I still am…Reload just blew it out of the water for me. I’m so excited to see how Reload handles The Answer. Maybe my all time favorite game honestly.

2:38:05 It’s Ryoji.

🦋Memento Mori🦋

I hope he gets to play Persona 4 arena after The Answer. Seeing the gang all grown up and meet the persona 4 cast is such a perfect conclusion to persona 3 imo.

What always hurt me, even as a kid when I played the OG Persona 3, was that the team arrived a literal second too late. They remembered too late

The arcana is the means by which all is revealed

20yrs later and I still bawl when the credit kicks in 😢

We did it we reached the end of persona 3 reload

I love your way of processing every event in this masterpiece. Each time I see Akinari's mother, it really breaks my heart. Thank you for this beautiful journey. Absolutely will subscribe to you as well. Love it

As akihiko says, "hes one hell of a guy. He even faced death with a smile" Rip shoto o7 thanks for saving the world

Great playthrough

I think persona 3 has the Best persona Boss theme in the Full series and Best P3 Theme Burn my Dred last battle

I hope you can see why a lot of people consider Persona 3 to be the best in the series. Even when I only had the F.E.S. version on the PS2, this game was absolutely peak.

2:23:27 warning for those with a weak heart 😭

This is like Noctis all over again

Toriumi's and Akinari's epilogues are my favourite. First one perfectly depicting the attitude of Maya and how unstable she is, second one is just heartbreaking

I cant believe the party members were actually acting competently on act freely

Congrats on finishing the main game! Now it's time to wait for the dlc

I beat p3 og and p3p and p3r still had me bawling

The original Nyx fight is one of my favs. Sucks they didn’t do it justice in reload but I’ve been trying out mods like Momento Mori and the improved AI tactics. If the expansion pass was an improved game difficulty mode and the AI tactics, I’d pay the $30.

Is it weird that I think Takaya has low key the best Theurgy moment in the game? I particularly like the voice line. The VA really popped off with that "SALVATION HAS COME! HYPNOS!!!"

What a ride & glad I got to experience the game a second time with your playthrough. Well done on the fights and letting them basically command themselves. Was such a cool moment that Aigis got the last hit on Nyx which is so fitting! The interaction with Akinari's Mother hits so hard every time for me. I really love being able to basically say your goodbyes to all your SL that you MAX out with. The story though really is something special and has a real proper ending like you said Caleb! The realization that you see the MC basically was on his last day was such a heart felt moment and being by Aigis' side was just something so special. This became my favorite Persona game of the big three. Big o7 to Makoto best Persona MC going out with a smile! 💙

Ive played P3 vanilla for the first time almost 10y ago, before SMT became main stream and I wasnt expecting to have such an experience with a game, the ending is by far the best I've ever seen in a game and one of the best in all media. P3 instantly became my fav game of all time and Im still to play the remake but its clear that they made justice. I love SMT series in general, how consistently good the games are withou never losing its core. P3 is very special about how it uses the SMT classical aspects such as the moon and the "messiah", all with a greek tragedy as basis, this game is so deep. Its not a perfect game but its strengths are so above and beyond.

I absolutely adore this ending. I genuinely believe it may be the best ending I've ever seen in... Really anything. That's just how... Impactful it is to me, I guess would be the word for it.

The arcana is the means by which all is revealed Celebrate life's grandeur... its brilliance... its magnificence...

"It's like a mini goodbye. Except it's for like... Yknow, A DAY." Door-kun: Yeah... See, about that.

The more final epilogue conversations there were, the more they sounded like the characters were speaking to the MC's grave.

You should check out the bad ending. It's hard to watch, but in a subtle way and adds so much meaning to the good ending. Edit: Well I guess you did!

Wait for almost 10+ years and this game still broke me so hard 😭. Especially when u realize that Makoto soul is also sealed

Wait for almost 10+ years and this game still broke me so hard 😭. Especially when u realize that Makoto soul is also sealed

P3 Protag is Jesus. Died for everyones sins. the ultimate sacrifice for all.

I think you should look for the translation for the credits song "Memories of you" it's a really beautiful song

Off topic, but does anybody want to see Celab play Xenoblade chronicles? I think he'd like it

The last couple of days in P3 always leaves me crying. Only a handful of games ever managed to do that.

The true persona was the friends we made along the way...

I'm so glad I maxed out the Sun Arcana. You and I had the same reaction.

Why aren't you manually controlling your team?

Dog,kid and robot beat death itself

2:49:00 empty feeling

Always witht he Nordics

An absolute masterpiece of an ending

RIP MAKOTO

Wut the, I thought Maiko's dad has a dialogue sprite?

Society man, socieegtyy Wouldnt it be like at least 40 times funnier if Nyx looks like paper money instead of an egg?

Jogão da porra

P3's boy never really die.... in persona story, he use all his power to seel nyx, his body was die, but his mind still fighting with nyx... and elizabeth still keep trying to save that boy---- elizabeth can beat nyx when she has some tea time... only problem is nyx can't be killed.. this part also in the P4 game. so, um... when the persona story really came to an end, this boy will come again.. maybe 10-20years later? -_-

I will be revisiting Persona 3 Portable and not touch this abomination called P3R since the changed the voice actor and the soundtrack and not the original one from P3P.