Metaphor: ReFantazio

El poder de crear un nuevo mundo; se puede mientras la confianza en los ideales sea plena y resiliente. Si se bebe de la fantasía de Metaphor ReFantazio, la fortaleza y convicción de héroes de antaño formará la pasión necesaria para el cambio. La fantasía está viva.

TL;DR VERDICT: 6.5/10 Great all-around but lacking sorely in the narrative department (even more so when it comes to social links), gameplay really carries the game outside of the slog that is late-game dungeon crawling. Get on sale. The archetypes are a great concept, because they add a decent bit of strategy to the game that some of the afformentioned "other titles" don't have; however, these turn out to be a double-edged sword since the amount of grinding required to master all of them or get the royal archetypes at the end of the game (Metaphor's equivalent to ultimate personas) is frankly appalling. The game's story is definitely solid and the worldbuilding is quite interesting, but there's nothing here to write home about; despite the main villain being incredibly well written, the main plot and the protagonist's arc are both really cliché and lack depth. For a game that tries to be more mature than the majority of Atlus' most popular titles, it's dissapointingly childish: the entire messaging and plot of the game revolve around a really shallow view on morality and class struggles. The MC and his party are Superman-tier good guys who want to believe that everything is actually sunshine and rainbows, and, as for the game's view on class struggle, all the racism and xenophobia in this game is utterly nonsensical. Racism in reality is borne of stereotypes or deep-seated fear/hatred, however, racism in Metaphor: ReFantazio is completely senseless; none of the races are very different to one another outside of appearances (with the exception of the Mustari that actually stick out somewhat), none of the races are shown as "criminal" races like Skyrim's Khajiit for example, and none of them have any political/historical reasons to hate eachother. The social links and plot-twists are also quite stagnant, I found myself predicting pretty much every majour plot-twist in the game way ahead of time, and I struggle to recall memorable social links outside of perhaps Alonzo and Heismay. In short, the game's story and worldbuilding have great potential, but it's as though the writers were too afraid to really go at it. The gameplay is an improvement by almost every metric from a lot of Atlus' other titles in my opinion, you're almost never bored unless you have to deal with the slog that is the late-game's grindfest or some of the longer main story dungeons like the Dragon Temple and the Skybound Avatar. One of my main complaints outside of excessive grinding however (I'll have you know that I generally like grinding in RPGs so I'm not exaggerating either) is that you run out of MP far too fast and there are virtually no ways to replenish it. Every Persona game for example had some way to replenish SP without leaving the dungeon you were in provided you had the money to pay for it, however in Metaphor you will often find yourself having to return to a dungeon 2-3 times and still having to carefully conserve mana, which really does kill the momentum of the gameplay at times when you're in massive dungeons full of enemy encounters. Finally, the music and artstyle of this game are nothing short of incredible; I do however take issue to the fact that roughly 70% of this game's tracks sound identical to one another when you're actually invested in the gameplay. This is indeed a bit of a harsh critique on my behalf, however, considering that Atlus' primary strong point outside of storytelling is their music, it's hard to let even the littlest things slide here. In conclusion, if you're a fan of Atlus then you're going to love this game. However, don't be surprised if it doesn't live up to the grand expectations you've had for every other work of theirs, as there are many things in this game that feel largely experimental.

I like this game, it was racist, wonderous, depressing and exciting. Made me cry a couple of times and I love a lot of the plot twists even though some of them gave me whiplash when it escalates so much without break then gives you a whole month of free time before the end boss which you're forced to fight on a certain day so you can't even finish early XD An amalgamation of many atlus published games turned into something both new and familiar. I'm a bit miffed that out of 8 tribes only 1 is distinctly different than a normal person compared to the rest but that's just a personal preference I have for fantasy stories where nobody is supposedly human XP

Esse jogo é uma obra prima, desde seu enredo e atmosfera até trilha sonora e gameplay, o jogo em si se passa em um mundo de fantasia, o rei foi assassinado em um golpe de estado e vc têm que salvar o príncipe que está sob efeito de uma maldição, você participará de uma corrida contra o tempo para ganhar uma competição para se tornar elegível pra se tornar representante do rei, esse é o resumo do resumo, existe várias reviravoltas e situações bem legais, desde motivações pessoais de personagens com os quais você vai aumentando seu relacionamento e npc´s no mundo afora que viram seu aliado. A gameplay é maravilhosa, a Atlus faz jogo de turno nos jrpg´s como ninguém, combinar os arquétipos trazem combinações das mais diversas e exigindo criatividade para montar sua build, o jogo em si não é fácil mas é muito satisfatório pegar o jeito. O tempo no jogo é linear como nos personas, vc escolhe o que fazer e o tempo avança, exigindo gerenciamento do seu tempo para determinados afazeres. Esse é um jrpg que marca geração, fechei ele há um tempo atrás nos consoles e comprei ele aqui na Steam (a melhor plataforma para jogos) vale cada centavo e tempo investido é uma história que fica guardada na memória para sempre!!!

メタファー：リファンタジオ』は、僕のゲーム人生の中で一番、心の琴線に優しく触れてくる作品だった。分断や対立、憎しみがあふれる今の時代だからこそ、このまっすぐに理想を追い求める叫びが宝物のように深く突き刺さる。 [i]※ストーリーのネタバレを含みます。[/i] システム面において、[b]WEAK[/b] を突いたときのボーナスや、[b]Block[/b] / [b]Reflect[/b] / [b]Miss[/b] による手番のペナルティなど、コマンドバトルの戦略性はアトラス作品の中でも最高峰だと感じた。「パス」の選択が重要な戦術になり、味方全体の [b]MP[/b] 管理を含めて非常にダイナミックな駆け引きが楽しめる。アーキタイプを組み合わせて必要な [b]BUFF[/b] などを継承させるシステムも奥深い。 その一方で、物語後半のボス戦（「全ての人の魂を喰らう者」やルイ最終形態など）が急に「超高[b]HP[/b]＋超火力」のゴリ押しバランスになる点は気になった。こちらのターンで [b]BUFF[/b] を盛り敵に [b]DEBUFF[/b] を叩き込み、特定の確率スキルで手番を増やして数ターンで秒殺するしかなく、理不尽なセーブ＆ロードを強いられる場面が多かったのは少し勿体ない。 ビジュアル面は極上のアートスタイルで、技術的な解像度は粗いが、手書きスケッチ風のアートとインクが滲むようなUIアニメーションは完璧な組み合わせだ。敵への不意打ち成功から流れるような演出と爽快感は素晴らしい。モンスター（ニンゲン）のデザインが絵画『快楽の園』へのオマージュなのも、物語のテーマと深く結びついている。 また、今作は「旅」そのものが特効薬になっている。完全オリジナルのファンタジー世界で、様々な街や現地のグルメを巡る楽しさがある。現実の旅行が終わった後の虚脱感（ゲームへのモチベ低下）に悩まされていた僕の心を、完璧に癒やして引き戻してくれた。 新王となった主人公が再び仲間と旅立ち、「世界のすべてを見に行こう！」と叫ぶエンディングや、瞳を輝かせるマリアの姿に心の底から共感した（当方30代だが、16〜20歳の少年の物語に一番没入できる）。僕自身がINFPタイプということもあり、「不安に立ち向かい、変化を信じて一歩を踏み出す」という今作の理想主義の解釈には強烈に共鳴した。自由がある限り分断や衝突は消えないけれど、だからといって絶対的な秩序に逃げ込むべきではないのだ。 本作のラストを締めくくる、あの言葉。 [b]「この幻なる旅の記憶が、あなたの生きる現実においても、眩い希望の光とならんことを。」[/b] ――このゲームは、それを本当に成し遂げてくれた。一本のゲームを遊び終えて、ここまで前を向く元気が湧いてくる感覚になったのは初めてだ。間違いなく、僕の思想の一部になった傑作。

makoto yuki with heterophobia got isekai'd and now he's experiencing medieval racism great game atlus cooked

let me preface with this: This game sucks if youre a fan of SMT/Persona, which I am the combat is fun and i like that you get what is basically ryujis instant kill on enemies lower level than you, and the ability to reset an encounter is pretty neat the story (i never finished the floating castle dungeon for reasons i will get to) is fine so far but the "rushed" parts of it stick out so bad (i.e. the butterfly girl being the big bad for like 10 ingame seconds) the archetypes, while cool and unique at the start, get so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ exhausting to deal with past the midgame because you get overwhelmed with them, and to get the "super" archetypes on each character you have to max out archetypes you would probably never go out of your way to use normally, also grinding levels feels so unintuitive spell casting is expensive and i felt inclined to NEVER use spells in combat and i was underlevelled despite going out of my way to grind for levels for maybe 2 ingame dungeons. travelling taking 1-5 ingame days was alright with me as a gimmick until they introduced the ability to teleport between major POIs, completely killing the whole gimmick strohl is the only character whos name i could remember off the top of my head. tldr if youre expecting an smt/persona styled game it sorta is that but its a mix of both worlds, persona mechanics like the calendar system and relationships, and the harsh unforgiving combat from SMT where every turn matters. but thats where the similarities end, it becomes less and less fun as the story reaches its end just wait til atlus does what they do best and rerelease the game in like 5 years to fix all the issues the original release had

我当年居然没给这游戏写评测。真的真的太垃圾了。只有前20小时有新鲜感的时候好玩。作为jrpg居然剧情拉人设也拉，画面还差，牛逼了。而且还能上年度游戏提名。jrpg是个错误