Persona 3 Portable first released in 2009 as an exclusive on Sony’s handheld system, the PlayStation Portable. It is an enhanced version of the original Persona 3, which adds a number of features and condenses it all to be playable on the go. This includes a playable female protagonist known as Kotone Shiomi, providing a different set of story events in this path as well. With the remaster only a few weeks away from launch, the achievement list has been posted online, and it is very different from the game’s original release on PSP.

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This achievement list was posted on PowerPyx, where it notes that Persona 3 Portable’s remaster will have 36 trophies to unlock, with one Platinum, five gold, five silver, and twenty-five bronze in total. This set of trophies is much more streamlined in comparison to the PSP release, as that version had 139 trophies to unlock according to the website RetroAchievements.

The major difference is how the trophy list for the game is now more comparable to the vanilla version of Persona 5 along with Persona 4 Golden’s checklist. For example, the PSP release had separate trophies finishing the game through the male and female protagonists respectively. The remaster has this revised to a Gold Trophy that requires players to beat the game with both protagonists. Other trophies have similarly cut the fluff from the original, requiring players to max out one or all of their social links instead of rewarding an achievement for each individual character they maxed out their link with.

This means that players of Persona 3 Portable will at least need two playthroughs in order to completely get everything. While the original was a lengthy affair that took at least 100 hours to complete the game, the quality-of-life improvements introduced in Persona 3 Portable’s remaster should help alleviate some of the tedium required. That said, there are still some achievements that are tied to some tough conditions, such as beating game’s superbosses.

Persona 3 Portable is launching on January 19, 2023 for PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Source: Powerpyx, RetroAchievements