Persona 3 Reload - Game Difficulty Guide

Game Difficulty Guide for Persona 3 Reload (P3RE)

List of Difficulty Modes

Gameplay Elements Affected by Game Difficulty

Combat difficulty changes based on chosen difficulty.

Battles become more challenging as you play on the higher difficulties. Enemies become harder to take down as they will deal more damage and take less from your attacks.

The accuracy of your attacks also becomes lower on harder game modes so applying buffs and debuffs on foes become increasingly important even during regular encounters throughout the game.

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Experience (EXP) is reduced on higher difficulty modes.

You gain less experience (EXP ) when playing on Hard or Merciless compared to the easier game modes. This means that you will level up more slowly on the more challenging difficulty settings which makes grinding more time-consuming. If you prefer to spend time leveling up your party, adjust the game difficulty to something lower.

Carry-over features are disabled on Merciless difficulty.

Starting a New Game cycle (NG+) on Merciless mode after beating the game on any other difficulty prevents you from carrying over features such as character level, Social Stats, Persona Compendium progress, and Vision Quest and Monad Depths progress from your previous run.

You will essentially be starting from zero if you choose to play on Merciless so only choose this setting if you want a challenge.

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Best Difficulty to Choose at the Start (New Game)

Start the game on Normal mode.

For beginners and new players, it is recommended to choose Normal difficulty for the first playthrough (New Game). This allows you to get a feel for the game’s standard level of challenge as a starting point to learn many of the game’s battle mechanics.

Afterwards, feel free to adjust the game difficulty based to your preferences if you find enemies to easy or too hard to take down.

How to Change Game Difficulty

Can be changed any time under System.

Game difficulty can be changed any time from the game menu by going into System. You can also freely adjust the EXP gained and respawn options after getting a Game Over from this sub menu to your liking.

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