Persona 3 or FES?

Just finished P5 and I want more Persona. P3 seems dark as hell and I dig it, but I've heard alot of division over which version is better. What do you think?

Persona 3 is shit so just play FES. Much better game by a cooler company.

You mean Persona 3 Portable or FES. Persona 3 vanilla is just Persona 3 FES without the FES.

Anyways go with FES and if you wanna check out a femc playthrough later on play P3P.

Go for FES, there's no contest.

Ahh, I see. What makes P3P inferior?

FES is objectively better than P3. You're probably thinking of the debate over FES vs P3 Portable. FES is definitely better than P3P for a first playthrough. P3P loses a lot of the atmosphere that makes the game so memorable.

What tips would you have for someone replaying persona 3? I remember having a hard time with it, but it was also my first "SMT" game. Honestly don't remember much about it which is why I've wanted to replay it.

No cutscenes, overworld is replaced with a VN menu.

You can't actually walk around the town. Instead, it's a map that you navigate with a cursor. Also, all the awesome anime cutscenes are replaced with slideshows, and the dialogue doesn't have any character models actually interacting with eachother on the screen. Instead, it's like a visual novel. The game is still good, but the atmosphere is kind of fucked up, so it's only really good for a second playthrough as the Female MC.

P3P has you able to control your party members' actions, but it wasn't rebalanced for this feature, resulting in a much easier game than P3 normally would be. P3P also lets you play as a girl with a few different social links from normal.

P3 FES has your party members' actions determined by AI as influenced by your orders (such as commanding them to focus on offense or support spells), which is what the game was originally balanced for. FES also comes with a bonus chapter called The Answer, a story taking place after the events of the main game, which P3P lacks.