Femc Reloaded Project
{{merge to|Persona 3 Reload|discuss=Talk:Persona 3 Reload#Proposed merge of Femc Reloaded Project|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Femc Reloaded Project
| image = Femc Reloaded Project, December 2024.jpg
| alt = Stylized drawing of the female protagonist
| caption = Art of an "All-Out Attack" by the artist Shiosakana
| developer = Femc Reloaded Project Development Team, MadMax1960, and others
| director = MadMax1960
| producer = Fernando Holguin
| engine = Unreal Engine 4
| platforms = Windows
| released = February 19, 2024
| genre = Role-playing
}}
Femc Reloaded Project (or Persona 3 Reload Mod Project: Femc Reloaded Project) is a modification pack for the role-playing video game Persona 3 Reload. It incorporates the female protagonist from Persona 3 Portable, as well as many other changes included in Portable. It was published on GitHub on February 19, 2024, by MadMax1960, and is currently being worked on by multiple other contributors to the project.
Development
When Persona 3 Reload was revealed to not have any additional features from neither FES{{'}} epilogue The Answer (which was remade as downloadable content for Reload as Episode Aigis), nor Portable's female protagonist, there was a negative response from the fanbase of the series.{{Cite web |first=Isaiah |last=Colbert |date=2023-06-12 |title=Persona 3 Fans Upset As Remake Cuts Female Protagonist |url=https://kotaku.com/persona-3-reload-remake-femc-female-protagonist-recast-1850529591 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Kotaku |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716221609/https://kotaku.com/persona-3-reload-remake-femc-female-protagonist-recast-1850529591 |url-status=live }} Kazuhisa Wada, the remake's producer, explained that budgetary and time-related concerns were the primary reasons why the female protagonist was not included. He did acknowledge the demand for the female protagonist, but said that she is still unlikely to ever be added to Reload.{{Cite web |last=Byll |first=Brett |date=2024-08-15 |title=Persona 3 Reload Producer Has Bad News For Fans |url=https://gamerant.com/persona-3-reload-no-female-protagonist-planned/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Game Rant |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815185344/https://gamerant.com/persona-3-reload-no-female-protagonist-planned/ |url-status=live }}
The developers of the project sought to restore the female protagonist along with other features that were exclusively in Portable, such as the optional male Velvet Room attendant Theodore, and the female protagonist's alternate over world, school, battle, and Social Link themes from Portable's soundtrack. The mod was published on February 19, 2024, seventeen days after Reload itself was released.{{Cite web |last=Cryer |first=Hirun |date=2024-02-19 |title=Persona 3 Reload finally gets Portable's beloved and missing female protagonist thanks to some very dedicated modders |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/persona-3-reload-finally-gets-portables-beloved-and-missing-female-protagonist-thanks-to-some-very-dedicated-modders/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=GamesRadar+ |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811173637/https://www.gamesradar.com/persona-3-reload-finally-gets-portables-beloved-and-missing-female-protagonist-thanks-to-some-very-dedicated-modders/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |first=Kenneth |last=Shepard |date=2024-02-20 |title=Persona 3 Reload Modders Are Fixing The Remake's Worst Omission |url=https://kotaku.com/persona-3-reload-female-protagonist-portable-kotone-1851272602 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Kotaku |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925185812/https://kotaku.com/persona-3-reload-female-protagonist-portable-kotone-1851272602 |url-status=live }} The mod continues to receive updates.
Reception
PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens praised the mod as "genuinely impressive," having finished the work in a very short time. He also pointed out that the mod is still in early stages.{{Cite news |last=Wolens |first=Joshua |date=2024-02-20 |title=Modders are achieving justice for Persona 3's missing female protagonist in a way that's only possible on PC |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/modders-are-achieving-justice-for-persona-3s-missing-female-protagonist-in-a-way-thats-only-possible-on-pc/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |work=PC Gamer |language=en}} TheGamer's Joshua Robertson commented that the mod is "pretty well-designed and functional."{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Joshua |date=2024-02-17 |title=Persona 3 Reload Players Are Adding FeMC Themselves |url=https://www.thegamer.com/persona-3-reload-femc-kotone-female-character-mod/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=TheGamer |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://github.com/MadMax1960/Femc-Reloaded-Project GitHub mod page]
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