Persona 3 Reload finally gets Portable's beloved and missing female protagonist thanks to some very dedicated modders

Persona 3 Portable
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Persona 3 R𒊎eload players have resurrected Portable's beloved female protagonist via a new mod.

Kot🧜one was one of the best things about Persona 3 Portable, but she's been left in the past, confined to the PS Vita game. Now, though, several dedicated fans have plucked Kotone from the past and brought her to Persona 3 Reload via the power of modding, and you can see a gameplay clip just below.

Reload's entire blue theme has been redone in Kotone𒈔's pink theme, which was the color the character was always associated with back in Persona 3 Portable. She even has "skirt phy🎐sics," as some Twitter users have said, in response to the brief snippet above.

It's worth p🐼ointing out that the mod still uses Reload's menu UI, which has the original protagonist, Makoto, emblazoned all over it. This isn't a huge surprise, though - to overhaul Persona 3 Reload's entire UI with a brand new character and theme would be damn near impossible.

If you want to dabble with the moꦺd, you can head to the page for the 'Femc-Reloaded-Project.' The modders are even seeking other fans to give them a hand resurrecting Kotone for Persona 3 Reload, so if modding is your jam, you might want to consider giving the group a hand.

Considering that developer Atlus has emphasized a fe𓆏w times that Persona 3 Reload is a remake of the 🍬original PS2 game and not a remake of Portable, this is sadly the closest we're probably ever getting to playable Kotone in Reload.

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