Persona 3 Reload - Day-to-Day | Part 4
6More social links and social stat grinding.
There's only 3 social stats in this game, but they're more demanding and lock more things than in 4 and 5. You straight up can't start Mitsuru or Yukari's social links without max Academics/Charm respectively. So now's the ideal time to focus on raising them before their social links are even available.
You can really tell Persona 3 was made by a "younger" team. Almost all the female social links just have people going "OOOOOH IS THIS YOUR GIIIIIIRLFRIEEEEND!?" and there's a fat guy social link that has "haha poop joke" as a running gag. Definitely a lot less nuanced than ones in later games, almost feels childish. But there are some that I like, mostly all the out of school ones, like the sweet old couple that run the bookstore. And I'd totally date Maya, the MMO social link, if given the option. And not just because her real identity is your teacher at school. But, "that's the best part", of course.