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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.

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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.

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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".

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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"

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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

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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"

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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.

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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?

PC Gamer

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

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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.

PC Gamer

Hungry for Metaphor: ReFantazio, I spent 97 minutes fighting a single godforsaken boss that the JRPG's director made 21 years ago

Now Playing | This is a cry for help

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Bold, bizarre, brilliant – Metaphor: Refantazio is everything I adore about Japanese RPGs

In this week’s newsletter: JRPGs can be an acquired taste – but fortunately it’s one I can’t get enough of. Plus, a bumper crop of games for horror fans

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Metaphor: ReFantazio borrows Persona's iconic calendar system, but devs say players don't need to "worry about missing out on activities due to time constraints"

The team "didn't want players to feel limited by time"

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For fantasy JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona director gave himself a crash course featuring classics like The Lord of the Rings, but "if we tried to copy that it would just be a copy"

Director Katsura Hashino wasn't as familiar making fantasy worlds, so he studied the best

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'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Is a Revolutionary RPG, When It Steps Out of Persona's Shadow

'Metaphor: ReFantazio' is a bold and surprisingly progressive RPG from Atlus that shines in its storytelling and combat, but can't get out of Persona's shadow.

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Metaphor: ReFantazio review

Atlus Persona-lly reimagines its perfect RPG.

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Metaphor ReFantazio review: "An evolution of Atlus' best RPGs"

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Certain gamers won't like one thing, but Metaphor: ReFantazio is absolutely game of the year material

Metaphor: ReFantazio is a brand-new original IP and RPG from the creators of Persona, and it's absolutely one of the best games of the year.

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Persona studio realized it "didn't need to be so strict" about medieval conventions when making its new fantasy JRPG

Metaphor: ReFantazio's world is more in service of its story rather than historical conventions

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Persona director explains why Metaphor: ReFantazio's cast awakens their powers in the most brutal way: "The big theme of this game is anxiety"

The JRPG continues Atlus' trend of brutal battle animations

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Persona's modern high school setting is "sort of limited," but going medieval fantasy with Metaphor: ReFantazio gave the JRPG's devs "a lot of freedom to explore"

Atlus has created "a whole new world" for its upcoming JRPG

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"We had a great discussion with the Xbox team at Square Enix." Xbox leads Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond share pics from their Japanese game dev charm offensive at the Tokyo Game Show

Microsoft's consistency when delivering for Japanese and other Asian gaming markets has been middling at best. However, the firm has maintained a presence at the big Tokyo Game Show for several years now. Is progress finally being made?

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