It’s such a shame - and such a bizarre decision - that this is based on the vanilla Persona 3, not the Portable edition with the optional female MC and all the extras.
Probably so they can sell the remastered DLC later. I don’t want to think Atlus would do that, but this is the modern age.
I would honestly rather have FES than Portable, but considering they are starting from scratch there is absolutely no reason they couldn’t have gotten the FES content, shove in the FemMC option and do it.
…unless the endgame is DLC, of course.
I’m firmly in the “no FeMC, no buy” camp, but I’m not really surprised. Including FeMC in this project would have dramatically increased the amount of dialogue, and they’ve already said P3R will have the most voiced lines ever for a Persona game.