Metaphor: ReFantazio

Игра полная ♥♥♥♥♥, я так устал когда её прошёл, ещё эти ♥♥♥♥♥ последние заезды 5 раз в конце

It's an okay game, but the gameplay isn't very intuitive. If you've played the Persona series, you'll probably find it easier to get into. The Archetype battle system is quite interesting, and the combat itself feels fresh and original. However, all of that is undermined by how completely useless melee attacks are. Why include them at all when combat is almost entirely dependent on Archetypes, which constantly consume MP? If you run out of MP, you're basically out of options...not even your melee-focused characters can save you. On top of that, the game feels incredibly mean-spirited when it comes to recovery points. They are few and far between, and because the game is constantly pushing you to manage your time efficiently, you can easily end up five hours into a dungeon or quest only to realize you didn't buy enough MP recovery items. At that point, your only realistic option may be to reload an old save and start over. In a game with this much dialogue, that's an especially painful realization. If you decide to play this game, make sure to buy MP replenishment items whenever you get the chance. Otherwise, you'll likely struggle with resource management throughout the game. Overall, it's a no from me. That said, if you're a Persona fan and enjoyed those games, you'll probably have a much better time with this one. Just wait for a sale instead of paying full price.

Игра огонь! Не жалею потраченного времени

弱智剧情，战斗臭不可闻，游戏还能越做越烂的

[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.

Mais uma canetada da Atlus, vale muito a jogatina!

fantastic world filled with wonders and whimsies that you can easily sink hours into.. fantasy is everything

Based on it's widespread praise, I'm actually shocked how much I disliked my experience with ReFantazio. While the narrative and characters may be above average for a jrpg, I found it's combat mechanics incredibly unfun due to how snowbally and one-sided they were. Which ever team went first won, likely finishing their opponents before they even got to take a turn. This happened to every enemy I attacked in the overworld, and occasionally if one got the drop on me it would happen to me too. Furthermore I found it's narrative and character writing undercut by the boisterous gamification of character relationships. A vulnerable and heartfelt moment would be interrupted by blaring trumpets and a giant image of clasped muscular arms (Dillon, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!) interposed over it, with the text "Character relationship level +1! Level 3 reached! +10% cooking speed! Incredibly obnoxious and distracting. Even if you want to make some number go up somewhere to incentivize the extrinsicly motivated to talk to your npcs, please don't do it like this. That's the whole review, the rest of this is just going to be me breaking down the specifics of my gripes with the combat mechanics, because they're so uniquely terrible in a way I've never seen or even concieved of before, and I just need to vent my thoughts. In traditional gameplay, mechanics like attacking an enemy's weakness are incentivized by dealing more damage, while an occurance such as missing an attack is undesirable because... you've missed your attack, and dealt no damage. ReFantazio needlessly feels the need to double down on these relationships, making attacks against an enemy weakness not only deal double damage, but also cost half an action, letting you act again. Meanwhile hitting a resistance doesn't just deal half damage, it also takes two actions, causing your next character to skip theirs. This makes an optimized team that exploits enemy weaknesses x4 as powerful as a neutrally effective one, and 16x as strong as trying to fight through a type disadvantage. *Sixteen times* Think about how large that gap is, the result of doubling the intensity in both directions, positive and negative. Obviously the game's balance cannot accomodate such a wide gulf, and so type match-ups become essentially the only thing that matters. Add to this the fact that you can get an entire free turn at the start of combat based on overworld interactions with the enemy, and mobs are getting annihilated by my team taking 8 double damage attacks before they even get to move. However, these mechanics apply to the player as well- your characters have weaknesses the enemies can hit, and the enemy can get a full free turn over you if they're the ones who instigate combat in the overworld. You cannot survive combat beginning with your team taking 8 double damage attacks before you get to press a button, and so I almost never had an experience I could honestly call a "fight". Just one side obliterating the other in an overwhelming pre-emptive strike, one way or the other. But it gets worse, I mentioned missing an attack earlier. This doubling down doesn't just apply to weaknesses and resistances, but mechanics like missing and crits. Crits take half an action, missing an attack takes *two*. (I guess their teammate is too busy gawking at the fumble to move this turn.) This doubles the influence of random chance on the combat balance compared to traditional turn-based games, a decision I absolutely loathe. Because a miss takes two full actions, while hitting a weakness takes half of one, missing a super-effective move can essentially cost you 4 attacks total. Attacks that would have done double damage. See how severe this is? Wait until a boss lands some lucky crits and stacks addition attacks on top of the extra damage from the crits to instantly swing the fight. Furthermore, the game has multi-character, collaborative supermoves that cost multiple actions, and these multiple actions also interact with this system. Missing a 2-action attack consumes all four of your actions, skipping your turn entirely. Obviously with how snowbally the game's balance is, the prospect of a boss getting two turns in a row without player intervention is a death sentence. I think I finally lost all patience with these dubious balancing decisions when I encounted an enemy boss designed around buffing it's own evasion. A notoriously obnoxious strategy, just making you miss all your attacks, escalated by the game multiplying the severity of this happening. I looked through my available tools to find a countermeasure, maybe I had some sure-hit attacks, maybe I could boost my accuracy or remove enemy buffs. I had, at this stage of the game, only a single way to interact with this boss' mechanic: a 2-action supermove that lowered enemy evasion. Ok. Every time it raised it's evasion I'd just spend half my turn lowering it again. I go into combat, I use the move- It misses and skips my entire turn. The supermove meant to lower enemy evasion doesn't have a bonus to it's accuracy. It can't hit evasive enemies. Actually pretty funny, in an absurd way. Not in an enjoyable way, but in a way that keeps me thinking about it long after I've pressed 'uninstall'.