Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis Will Be Locked Behind Expansion Pass

Atlus has now confirmed you will need to buy pieces of content you probably don’t want if you wish to play the Episode Aigis DLC for Persona 3 Reload, as the expansion is locked behind the £28.99 / $34.99 Expansion Pass. It won’t be up for purchase separately, with a PR representative telling Push Square “the three parts of the Expansion Pass will not be available separately, and only available as part of the full pass”.

As such, to gain access to Episode Aigis in September, you’ll need to buy the complete DLC package, which bundles in a musical track pack and additional costumes. The former launched yesterday and the latter is out in May, then Episode Aigis releases at some point in September 2024. It’s generally standard procedure to allow DLC packs be available for purchase outside of a season pass, as was the case at Persona 3 Reload’s launch when Atlus dropped a ton of day one DLC. However, that’s not happening for Episode Aigis.

In a recent interview with Famitsu, it was claimed that Episode Aigis — which remakes post-game content The Answer from Persona 3 FES — was going to be part of the base game, but Atlus encountered issues during development. “We wanted to make it happen from the first drafts of P3R, as we felt that it would be essential to have the concluding arc if we were remaking Persona 3. Due to various circumstances, however, there were a lot of difficulties which had to be overcome in order to make the remake a reality, with challenges from the outset of the main P3R project.”

However, based on the positive public reception to Persona 3 Reload, the team decided to push ahead on production of the expansion. “Deep down, I couldn’t just give up on it, so even while developing the main story I kept searching for ways to make it happen,” said producer Kazuhisa Wada.