Persona 3 Reload datamine points to The Answer expansion being reinstated as DLC

Fans are hopeful that expansion The Answer will come to Persona 3 Reload after dataminers discovered references to DLC.

Persona 3 Reload released last month as a remake of the 2006 original. However, it was criticised for being incomplete without the inclusion of The Answer expansion and the female protagonist featured in revised versions Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable.

The latest hint to an expansion comes from YouTuber Faz (thanks PCGamer), who discovered an in-game message for completing the game on the highest Merciless difficulty (or at least using a cheat engine to skip ahead).

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Upon finishing the game on Merciless, the character Elizabeth delivers a blue envelope item, which when opened includes a message to the protagonist reading: «At the end of a great trial, the answer illuminates my path.»

Could this simply be a reward for the playthrough, or does the mention of «the answer» hint at possible forthcoming DLC?

Fans have been speculating in the comments to Faz's video, claiming The Answer is too integral to the story to be ignored, as well as noting recent datamining.

That comes courtesy of dataminer ruinedstego0, who claimed via a post on social media platform X that six pieces of DLC are in the works as a P3R Expansion Pass.

Some of this is simply costume and music sets, but there's also seemingly a reference to Episode Aigis — with Aigis being the main character of The Answer.

There will be 6 new pieces of DLC for <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/P3R?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#P3R

<a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/Persona3Reload?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#Persona3Reload
*Exploration Item Set
*P4G EX BGM Set
*P5R EX BGM Set
*Velvet Room Costume Set
*Velvet Room BGM Set
*Episode Aigis / The Answer
*Episode Aigis BGM Set

All seemingly under the name «P3R