Metaphor: ReFantazio

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a great game.

First time in a while I play a solo game for more than 4h on the first day.

Mais uma canetada da Atlus, vale muito a jogatina!

Отличная игра, но чтож японцы так затягивают их?

This game holds a special place in my heart. When this game first released, I had been living through a time where I was completely wracked with anxiety. Funnily enough, the foundational theme in this game is overcoming anxiety. The others main ideas being confiding in the people you love, casting aside your pride to ask for help, and being there for people, even if you think yourself incapable of being helpful. Halfway through the game I had found a way to save myself from that overbearing anxiousness. This game helped me do that in some small way. Not only in its themes and its very inspiring dialogue, but in its music. Ode to Heroes and the Virga Island theme were both songs that genuinely made me feel better. Two years later I find these tracks especially nostalgic. This game is difficult, or at least it WAS difficult my first time around. I've beaten SMTV and almost all of the newer and older Persona entries, yet I remember struggling with a few of the encounters on my first playthrough two years ago. The reason for this is that the game wants you to experiment with your highly customizable party's skills, and it REALLY wants you to grind your brains out. There are a handful of fights that might require you to load a previous save and completely change your party composition and grind; that is, if you weren’t over-leveled (which you likely will NEVER BE unless you intentionally grind for hours to get ahead, yes EVEN IF you do all side quests). If you get stone walled by a fight you better get ready to load up a save, because you’re going back to Akademia! But why am I bothering to say this if it comes with the territory of playing an Atlus game? Because it takes so long to grind. In other Atlus games I gain a meaningful amount of levels from using all of my party's SP, but in Metaphor I find myself slowly refilling my empty MP bar with mage over and over again. You end up realizing that spawn camping enemies you one shot without entering battle is very lucrative, but it gets old fast, and you will do it a LOT. But maybe it's because I have already played the game. I did find myself blasting through the dungeons just because I knew what I was doing this time. Two final gripes. [spoiler] The final boss wasn’t fun, just annoying. I got permanently stuck healing and reviving my party and there was no chance at recovery. I reset, changed almost nothing about my strategy, and somehow completely bent him over my knee. [/spoiler] The achievements are a pain. If you’re a completionist and want it all in one playthrough, you better be thorough or you’re doing ALL of NG+ for the last one or two achievements. No thanks. Hulkenberg and Eupha are the best! Every single follower is lovable! The accents in this game are SO ENDEARING! Especially [spoiler] the Paripus Brothers [/spoiler], Catarina, and Eupha!

这游戏带给我的震感程度不亚于6年前在ps4上第一次玩ff7 remake，当然仅限前中期，后期它给我的失望程度也不亚于ff7 rebirth 在游戏初期，它从种族、阶级、信仰、民生等多个角度与玩家探讨社会、宗教甚至是哲学议题，以一款jrpg来说是非常大胆的一步，但可惜的是起点越高、步子迈得越大，跌落时就会越惨。且不说前期红毛女、歌姬等人觉醒剧情写的太过仓促，等到后期你跟我说主角根本不是白手起家汇聚伙伴消除歧视草根革命的人设，而是靠宣传自己是皇家血统来为自己争夺王位正名，甚至声称自己“永远不会撒谎”的路易都要向国民隐瞒自己真正的种族以此来笼络民心，你们口口声声说要改变国家让种族平等，可自己却无法言行一致。主角能走到最后跟路易决战，可以说有一半因素是因为他有两位知识渊博的老爹和精通魔力的精灵老妈，他们用自己的生命为主角铺路，这种血统论的走向在jrpg里已经太套路了，当然在看到主角团为了续写幻想继续旅程的结尾，旁白诠释“幻想”题材背后的含义时，还是有那么一丝感动，只可惜成也jrpg，败也jrpg 至于战斗方面，回合制部分依旧做的很有挑战和趣味性，可以说集atlus游戏之长，特别是前期缺魔法时，在迷宫每场战斗精打细算，最后boss房前存好魔法或是找个小怪群靠阿基态免费回复都是不错的手段。可是在战斗外角色攻击、翻滚的手感仿佛回到了2010年左右国产单机仙剑之流的水平，简直让人无法相信这是2020年后制作出来的游戏。最后队友的阿基态不能随主角解锁也是非常逆天的设定，新队员入队，几十种阿基态要一个个激活、一个个练级太折磨了 Ui设计、美术风格和音乐水准是唯一没法黑的地方，毕竟这么多年的老资历，这部分再做不好这品牌还有哪些凯子能买单呢 7/10 总体来说是个前中期十分惊艳，后期让人有些失望的作品，还是那句话，成也jrpg，败也jrpg，哎

弱智剧情，战斗臭不可闻，游戏还能越做越烂的

Игра огонь! Не жалею потраченного времени

[h1] Just play Persona instead [/h1] I wanted to like this game, and it has some really cool stuff to offer that is unfourtantely mired in a lot of bad design choices and horrid pacing. I'm not the first to say this but Metaphor is just worse Persona is every way, The unique world is interesting but not enough to justify the lacklustre Archetype system or the plot that takes 10 hours to get going on an interesting premise only to abandon that premise 2/3rds of the way in for the most cliche thematically defeating reveal [Spoiler] The Nobody Mc was actually the most super special boy all along who has the special blood that gives him the divine right to be King and we will just maintain the royal family status quo and not really address the inherent issues with the system [/Spoiler] . The entire game feels half baked but coated in excellent production quality so you don't notice until you've taken a few bites.