History YMMV / Persona3Reload

** Remember how one of the people who believed in the apocalyptic rumors randomly exploded into a Shadow upon seeing Nyx's true form? Well, that's still here, with additions of it happening to ''even more'' people and those shadows ''consuming'' anyone nearby -- and it's not limited to just people outwardly welcoming the arrival of Nyx either. The second person to become a Shadow is a relatively normal looking woman, who consumes the man next to her.

** Akihiko is an odd example of a party member being considered a letdown, due to how Characteristic and Theurgy are phrased. They are worded as though his stat buffs like Tarukaja and his Theurgy are only affected if he himself casts the buffs, when in reality they are impacted by anyone casting them. This combined with numerous other factors (namely, the loss of almost all of the debuff spells that made him so good in original versions of ''Persona 3'' and his JackOfAllTrades skill set leading him to have rather weak attacks throughout most of the midgame) led to Akihiko being widely disliked by players who were not made aware of how exactly his Buff Amp and Theurgy work.

* LowTierLetdown: In contrast to the original game, Mitsuru is seen as a bit of a letdown on the higher difficulties. While most other party members were buffed, she lost Ice Amp and her healing skills, trading them for an increased repertoire of ailments which are ineffective against most bosses (which doubly hurts as her Theurgy gauge relies on them), leaving Rakunda as her only utility. On its own this might not be so bad, but ''Reload'' added many new tools to buff physical attackers (Auto-Rebellion equipment, Bloody Charge) and all physical specialists in the party got huge buffs from their Characteristics (Junpei's [[CriticalHitClass Critical Amp]], Aigis' [[BoringButPractical Phys Amp]], Akihiko's Buff Boost) or in other ways (Koromaru naturally learns the boss-killing Getsu-Ei and the party crit-boosting Revolution). And as most bosses have no weaknesses, magic damage has a hard time keeping pace with CriticalHit setups. In fact, Mitsuru's own Characteristic (Boosting crit rate vs enemies with ailments) makes these setups even better without doing much to improve her own damage. The other magic users have ways to remain useful (Yukari's cheap healing, Ken's utility skills and Akihiko's [[JackOfAllTrades buffs, debuffs and physical options]]) while Mitsuru's are limited and she has [[SquishyWizard the worst durability in the party]], which is only exaggerated with Merciless' higher damage output. While she does get Diamond Dust, it's her ''last'' skill, and her damage output falls behind in the midgame until she gets Concentrate at Lv 55.

** The Social Links for Yukari, Mitsuru, Fuuka, Aigis, Yuko and Chihiro. In the previous versions of ''VideoGame/Persona3'', these Social Links received criticism for forcing the Protagonist into romantic relationships with each girl, something that was further exacerbated when later games (Including the Female Protagonist route from ''Persona 3 Portable'') would include platonic and romantic paths in every Social Link with a potential LoveInterest. In ''Reload'', the aforementioned Social Links no longer force the player into romantic relationships, and those with the female members of SEES actually include flags for the platonic[=/=]romantic paths ahead of time - so the Protagonist doesn't have to break the hearts of his teammates, and can have purely platonic relationships with them.

** Nyx Avatar isn't very hard to beat if your party's level is at Level 85 or above, but they're ''also'' a SequentialBoss. You'll have to beat the first twelve phases (one for each of the first twelve Arcanas) before the real fight begins on the last one. During their last two phases (Hanged Man and Death), it can cast [[ThatOneBoss the Hanged Man Shadow's]] dreaded [[ExtraTurn Grim Transcendence]] to give them extra turns. This, coupled with Nyx Avatar's high damage output, can allow it to wipe players out if they aren't careful.

** The Natural Dancer Monad Passage miniboss will spam a buffed Spirit Drain on your party, and comes in a group of 3. If fought at the ''start'' of a Tartarus session, you'll be forced to either spend Twilight Fragments, use valuable SP items, or have whichever party you brought essentially out of action for the rest of the night. Fuuka's post-battle dialogue even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this.
** Nyx Avatar isn't very hard to beat if your party's level is at Level 85 or above, but it is ''also'' a SequentialBoss. You'll have to beat the first twelve phases (one for each of the first twelve Arcanas) before the real fight begins on the last one. During its last two phases (Hanged Man and Death), it can cast [[ThatOneBoss the Hanged Man Shadow's]] dreaded [[ExtraTurn Grim Transcendence]] to give it extra turns. This, coupled with Nyx Avatar's high damage output, can allow it to wipe players out if they aren't careful.

** The Answer being paid DLC was met with backlash from fans -- Many were displeased that they had to pay extra for content that was originally free in the FES version, and that The Answer was not included as part of the Premium purchase. Negative reviews on Steam reinforce that fans were keen on the content in The Answer but not what they needed to pay for it.

** Tartarus rescue missions were brought in from ''Portable''. And while Elizabeth will warn the player when people wander in, this tends to happen very close to a Full Moon, and occasionally happens multiple times within a lunar cycle. In practice, this encourages putting off going to Tartarus until as late as possible, as that allows you to knock out all recues at once for maximum efficiency. Conversely, players who go to Tartarus early are essentially punished: forced to go back later in the month if they want to avoid the PlayerPunch of [=NPCs=] dying.

* CharacterRerailment: After years of getting [[{{Flanderization}} reduced]] to an [[DumbMuscle unintelligent]] protein-obsessed BloodKnight shell of his former self across ''Persona 3'''s spinoffs and supplementary material, Akihiko is finally brought back to being the level-headed and wise BigBrotherMentor he was original games. In the new content, many mentions of protein are mixed in with a general watchfulness towards his diet and health, and overall the number of times he himself brings it up can once again be counted on one hand.

** The same also applies to Chidori as well. While she's no longer a ZeroEffortBoss due to having more HP, adding Neuron Slash as part of her skillset and her Spring of Life skill being reworked into her own version of Diarahan, the boss fight immediately ends after five turns have passed.

* CheeseStrategy:
** The "Reaper Reaped" achievement can be unlocked on any difficulty level. In practice, this means it can be earned without too much effort on Peaceful, but it will take a very long time if you're underleveled.
** The Reaper fight proper can be farmed to hell and back. If you fight it on the lowest difficulty setting, your HP and SP will be restored whenever you re-enter the battle, and all the damage is maintained. Run out of SP? Throw the battle and retry, and continue on until the Reaper is defeated. Suddenly the formidable boss has become piñata of EXP to bust open, and you can revert back to Normal once you've thoroughly grinded your levels out.
** The Hermit boss can be defeated easily by casting Elec Break on it, setting up [[AttackReflector Makarakarn]] on the party, and simply waiting for it to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard annihilate itself with its own charged electric attacks.]]