Are you able to save the Chief (Makoto) within the Persona 3 Reload ending?

Persona 3 Reload is a protracted sport with an emotional ending — made extra emotional by the sheer period of time you’ve spent on this world and with these characters. In the event you obtained the sport’s true ending, you should still end up watching the credit and asking: Wait, is there something I might’ve accomplished in a different way?

On this Persona 3 Reload information, we’ll stroll you thru the ending of the sport, the destiny of the sport’s protagonist (Makoto Yuki), what affect you’ve gotten over its end result (if any), and the way it all connects to Episode Aigis — the upcoming epilogue growth.

[Spoiler Warning: This post contains major spoilers for the true ending of Persona 3 Reload and some minor spoilers for “The Answer” epilogue from Persona 3 FES, which is being remade into the upcoming Episode Aigis DLC for Persona 3 Reload. If you want to stay as spoiler-free as possible, bookmark this guide and return to it once you see the credits roll. In the meantime, check out our guides for classroom answers and social link requirements.]

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Is the protagonist useless on the finish of Persona 3 Reload?

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Sure. When the protagonist falls asleep in Aigis’ lap, as all his buddies are dashing as much as the rooftop of the college, he passes away. This occurs no matter whether or not you select the “……” possibility or the “Shut them” possibility when the sport tells you your eyes really feel heavy. The blue butterfly fluttering away is supposed to represent the character’s demise in that second.

OK, however how do we all know for positive? Nicely, that reply — funnily sufficient — comes from the sport’s epilogue growth referred to as “The Reply,” which is part of Persona 3 FES. That growth just isn’t a part of Persona 3 Reload, nevertheless it’s coming in September of 2024 because the Episode Aigis DLC.

In “The Reply” — and presumably Episode Aigis, based mostly on how devoted Reload is to Persona 3 FES — you play as Aigis just a few weeks after commencement and the demise of the Chief character (which the sport explicitly calls out). In the event you look again on the last battle in opposition to Nyx, the protagonist makes use of the Universe Persona to carry out the Nice Seal potential. The price for casting Nice Seal is the same as the Chief’s max well being, suggesting that he gave the whole lot to cease Nyx.

The demise is a little bit extra complicated than that, however we’ll go away you to find these solutions in Episode Aigis. Simply belief for now that — until Atlus makes a completely large change to the story — the Chief is useless.

Are you able to save the Chief in Persona 3 Reload?

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No, technically. When you can select to get the unhealthy ending for Persona 3 Reload and kill Ryoji again in December, it’s understood that everybody on Earth will ultimately die in that actuality — even if you happen to by no means see it. To ensure that everybody else to outlive in Persona 3 Reload, the Chief should surrender their very own life to cease Nyx.

Sacrifice is a part of the principle story thrust of Persona 3 Reload, with many gamers shedding family members to heroic moments of sacrifice. Yukari and Mitsuru’s fathers are each nice examples of this theming at work. By dying for his buddies and the world, the protagonist’s demise completes the sacrificial theme.

Benefit from the sport’s stunning last moments figuring out that you simply did nothing improper right here. You bought the sport’s good — albeit bittersweet — ending.