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PC Gamer
Mollie Taylor

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

Gallica and the protagonist from Metaphor: ReFantazio.

So I just took a week off work, which is usually time I would spend doing actual responsible adult things like running errands or deep cleaning my apartment. Well, I did none of those things. I did, however, spend a helluva lot of time smacking monsters in dungeons while trying to fix racism in a fictional kingdom.

Metaphor: ReFantazio is a bloody good game. Atlus has really nailed something by mashing together the best bits of Persona and Shin Megami Tensei before throwing it into a fantasy setting where I get to play as actual adults rather than a band of horny teenagers. It's the first JRPG in an awfully long time to reel me in and, more importantly, keep me in its clutches for the duration.

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