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In a post-Baldur's Gate 3 world, was Metaphor: ReFantazio right to ditch romance?

Opinion | The GamesRadar+ team discuss how romance is only one way to build a strong relationship with your party members in an RPG

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'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Has 'Very Positive' Reviews on Steam, 4.7 Stars on Google

Find out what gamers have to say on Steam and Google Reviews about Metaphor: ReFantazio, which was released on October 11, 2024.

Player One

Just one week after Metaphor: ReFantazio's release, Persona director Katsura Hashino says he's already cooking up his next JRPG

It's not Persona 6, though

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After Metaphor: ReFantazio, I'm not sure I can go back to Persona

Metaphor: ReFantazio features so many quality-of-life improvements that make it a must-play Atlus RPG.

Tom’s Guide

Metaphor: ReFantazio breathes new life into Atlus’ tried and true RPG formula — and it's the perfect post-Persona 5 evolution

Atlus took a lot of risks veering off the beaten path with Metaphor: ReFantazio but its bold, fantasy-inspired experiment has managed to pay off.

Tom’s Guide

Metaphor: ReFantazio's director does the smart thing, avoids reading comments as much as possible: 'Constantly looking at reactions isn’t good for your mental health'

Everything in moderation.

PC Gamer

Metaphor: ReFantazio lets you snag thousands in fantasy dosh pretty early on, all you have to do is smack some dogs and worms around with an abacus

Makin' that Merchant moolah.

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Does Metaphor: ReFantazio have romanceable characters?

Please say I can take a break from all the racism to smooch someone.

PC Gamer

New Metaphor: ReFantazio patch aims to resolve game-breaking progression bugs in the JRPG, with a PC release coming "at a later date"

Patch 1.03 is available now on PlayStation and Xbox

GamesRadar

Atlus brings the hammer down on Metaphor: ReFantazio spoilers with a new rule prohibiting video thumbnails and titles from ruining the JRPG's story

Keep those spoilers hidden, please

GamesRadar

Metaphor: ReFantazio review: truly a turn-based RPG for the ages

With Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus builds on its challenging turn-based combat formula amidst the backdrop of a politically-charged fantasy world, and it rules.

TechRadar

Metaphor: ReFantazio lets you snag thousands in fantasy dosh pretty early on, all you have to do is smack some dogs and worms around with an abacus

Makin' that Merchant moolah.

PC Gamer

Metaphor: ReFantazio's turn-based combat excels, but its brief action-based fights are what's made me fall in love with the JRPG grind all over again

I forgot how fun it was to kick back and wail on weaklings in the same dungeon for hours on end.

PC Gamer

Director of stylish JRPGs Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 isn't excited by "highly polished games that look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom"

Atlus' Katsura Hashino clearly values originality and creativity

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Metaphor: ReFantazio's director looked to classic fantasy like Lord of the Rings before deciding doing that 'would lack that originality that defines us'

Atlus decided to "abandon" its fantasy research during development.

PC Gamer

Games that 'look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom' aren't exciting or interesting to Metaphor: ReFantazio's director

Katsura Hashino wants a game "to give me a glimpse of the humanity behind it".

GamesRadar

Metaphor: ReFantazio is yet another 80+ hour JRPG from Atlus, but its director says the studio "didn't want to bore our players by keeping it the same the entire time"

The game is admittedly "pretty voluminous"

GamesRadar

Lord of the Rings initially inspired Metaphor: ReFantazio, before Atlus "threw out" all its fantasy research to preserve "the originality that defines us"

Katsura Hashino decided that Atlus' own ideas are what makes its games special

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Metaphor: ReFantazio's original fantasy world gave the Persona 3, 4, and 5 director "freedom" to work on ideas "that we couldn't put into other games"

Persona's high-schooling setting put a "limit" on what was possible for Atlus

GamesRadar

Metaphor: ReFantazio combines real-time and turn-based battles because its director wanted to integrate "the idea of manga and movie-style combat"

"That balance of the tempo of fast and slow is something that we brushed up in terms of the combat system in our previous games"

Windows Central

The Persona devs just shattered their sales record with Metaphor: ReFantazio (and it's well deserved)

Metaphor: ReFantazio has become the fastest-selling game in Atlus history, breaking the record set earlier this year by Persona 3 Reload.

PC Gamer

Metaphor: ReFantazio is the new fastest-selling game in Atlus' history, selling a million copies in its first day

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?

GamesRadar

New JRPG giant Metaphor: ReFantazio beats all Persona games to become Atlus' fastest-selling title and biggest Steam launch

It's a fantastic start for Atlus' new fantasy JRPG

PC Gamer

Persona series director says Atlus's flashy menus are 'actually really annoying' to design

Sometimes we suffer for our craft.

PC Gamer

To mark the launch of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sega is going to make someone a real-life noble, but there's a catch—you'll be joining the nobility of an illegitimate nation in the North Sea with only one resident

At least you get a fancy title.

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