Why Metaphor: ReFantazio is Special
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
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From the creative minds behind Persona 3, 4, and 5 comes Metaphor:
ReFantazio, a unique fantasy world, where your protagonist will journey
alongside his fairy companion, Gallica, to enter the Royal Tournament and
lift the curse from the kingdom’s lost prince. Control your destiny, face your
fears and awaken magical "Archetype" powers that lie dormant in your
heart. By awakening to an “Archetype,” you will unlock the power to
channel and combine the abilities of unique job classes. Strengthen your
bonds and build your party to take down powerful foes and discover the
kingdom’s true nature.
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Metaphor: ReFantazio. Atlus’s latest and greatest title that’s brought to you by the same minds behind Persona’s 3, 4 & 5. As a long-time fan of this company, it’s a bit surreal to see this game finally come out. I’ve been following this title since its reveal way back in 2016 when it was referred to as “Project ReFantasy”. To put that into perspective, at the time, I just started my senior year of high school and Persona 5 hadn’t come out in the West just yet. For the longest time, it felt like this game was never going to come out since we went years without hearing anything about it. But lo and behold the game was officially re-revealed last year as Metaphor ReFantazio and is now finally in our hands. Not only that, but Sega and Atlus decided to reach out to me and sponsor this video. So if you’re interested in checking out the game for yourself then click the link below to get started. There’s even a free demo to try out if you’re interested. And hey, the game debuted with a score of 94 on metacritic making it one of the highest rated games of the year. And outlets like gamespot and ign have also been singing it’s praises, so you’re gonna be in for a good time. But let's say that you lack the time currently and just want to hear what I think of the game. While a full review of metaphor is on the cards, that’s not what we’re going to be doing today. Instead, I wanted to focus on a different topic surrounding metaphor.
During the lead-up to release, I heard a lot of people criticize this game for just being “more of the same” and if you don’t play many Atlus games or only look at metaphor from a surface level, then I can see where that group is coming from. However, this sentiment doesn’t hold a lot of weight when we get down into the nitty-gritty of it all. Sure, metaphor borrows ideas from the Persona series like the followers and the callander system, but the game also takes inspiration from all over Atlus’s catalogue; it's just the most obvious with Persona because those games are easily the most popular ones. There’s also the fact that it’s being made by the same people who worked on the modern persona games to take into consideration. Some people might see these superficial similarities and assume that metaphor is a derivative experience and pass up on it as a result. But as someone who has played a lot of Atlus games in the past, I can assure you that not only does metaphor do something unique with those returning concepts, but offers plenty of unique mechanics and ideas that allows the game to stand on its own feet.
Why Metaphor: ReFantazio is Special. Metaphor: ReFantazio is one of my most anticipated games of the year and in this Metaphor: ReFantazio discussion video, I'm going to be highlighting some of the criticisms surrounding Metaphor: ReFantazio and explaining why they aren't as absolute as people think. This Metaphor: ReFantazio video isn't a Metaphor: ReFantazio Review, Metaphor: ReFantazio Critique, or Metaphor: ReFantazio Analysis. A dedicated Review of Metaphor: ReFantazio will be coming later, but not right now as the game is brand new. Instead, in this Metaphor: ReFantazio Discussion, I will be breaking down and highlighting Why Metaphor: ReFantazio is Special and hopefully you all will check out Metaphor: ReFantazio afterwards because it is an amazing game. Nam's Compendium will make a Metaphor: ReFantazio Review, Metaphor: ReFantazio Critique, and Metaphor: ReFantazio Analysis in the future and I can assure you that it will be one of the best videos by Nam's Compendium.
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Hey man, I know that a lot of people were upset over your P3R review but personally, even though I disagree with your conclusion, I still think you brought up some really good points and I still have a lot of respect for your opinion. Looking forward to the Metaphor review!
lets hope a future vid titled "great but flawed", "why it missed the mark", or "a style heavy but soulless game" arent in the pipeline
Me when bad faith argument
Does brilliant but flawed count
already coping? lmfao
@@lachlanwoolacott8698 yes
@@yatora6865 nah i just know how these atlus yters function atp. they will gas tf outta a game just to 2 months later be like "yeah so the game was actually ass the whole time" just like the rest of twitter
Something that stands out to me is that this is a new IP by a big-name company that earned my trust. Not a remake, not a remaster or a port---just a very solid new game. Im here for it
I would just wait for about 3 years for Alus to make a Definitive Edition of this game like what they did with P5 and SMT5
I’m not gonna lie i was extremely excited for metaphor and that it was going to be good but I wasn’t expecting it to be called a Masterpiece worldwide on Release. Atlus really is on another level
Wonder how much they paid the reviewers
@@t_bone2145you must be fun at parties
@@t_bone2145wonder how much you’re coming
@@somehaterate6310 No, he's right. Western reviewers hate giving positive reviews unless they are paid or there is a political reason for giving a good review. That's just a fact.
@@Arcessitorno its not?
it's Persona but like, COOL!
Persona but cooler it is!
They heard all the “high school setting” complaints regarding the other games and made Persona 6 entirely different OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm actually stoked to play this game, but three things are holding me back from playing it at launch: 1) My state is recovering from a hurricane so my home comes first, 2) My gaming backlog is as long as a CVS receipt, and 3) Atlus seems to have the pattern of an expensive at launch price followed by an expensive DLC, only for that game to go on sale months later.
I purchased Reload at launch, and by the time I was able to actually start playing it It was on sale on Steam; I don't know if this is sacrilege for a video sponsored by the developers, but that experience taught me to wait to play Atlus games.
I have my copy arriving tomorrow. Liked the prologue. Ftr DO NOT EVER take IGN or game spot reviews into consideration they don’t know what they’re talking about. Also I don’t trust sponsored “reviews” either. How could they NOT be biased? I mean cmon dude. Anyways I’m excited to play this all weekend after work tomorrow
I mean a 94 on metacritic means thats its at least good to some degree.
So you don't trust this review either?
I still haven't beat the demo, but this game looks amazing, and I really wanna play the full release
I’ll play it eventually. There’s just way too many great RPGs these days.
Thanks just finished downloading. Loved Persona 4 and 5.
Its persona vanilla mix with final fantasy/bravely default chocolate!
the combat encounter borrows from trails series latest one Kuro and it is cool
I kinda wish they dialed it back on the visuals. The over-stylized UI worked in P5 for the phantom thieves but for a high fantasy game it's a bit busy for me.
Really? I found it a lot more restrained than P5.
So you are saying its not persona5 reskin but persona 5 x Etrian Odyssey reskin. Got it.
Not really… more like persona mixed with final fantasy and smt. The archetype system is way more similar to the job switching where you’re collecting and customizing a bunch of jobs that any character can switch between at any time, and inherit skills from each other. EO has the classes progress on a more open skill tree but without the ability to have a character switch classes and combine learned aspects of them
@@304Blaise
If you take EO's job system, and you combine it with the persona switching ability called "wildcard" from the persona games, I would reckon you get... exactly what they made.
It resembles the final fantasy job system, in some of its incarnations, but not all. It was effectively reverse engineered into a similar system, using only in-house parts.
@@tonylawson2222 nah the game has way more similarities to DDS than persona combat wise.
Metaphor this! Metaphor that! I’m still on the Switch version of SMT 5 and they delisted the DLC!!!???
After playing through P3 Reload and Persona 4 Golden at the same time and beating them both, I need a break from ATLUS games for a while. This game defintiely seems similar enough to Persona (Reload especially), to where I think it’d worsen my fatigue if I played it now, so I’ll wait to play it later down the road. Looks gorgeous though, love the character designs!
Maybe Christmas time would be good?
what is the point of having bad grafix? Theres like 2 polygons and they cant anti-alias them. Switch port on all platforms :(
I hear SJ peak ost!!!
Love this game so far but it's a lose lose situation with it. It either
Gets a ton of praise and everyone uses it as a weapon to disrespect Persona
Or everyone will switch up on it and say it's just a lesser Persona or "Great but flawed"
There is the possibility that this is just great on its own.
There's no reason persona has to lose for this to win. 6 hasn't been made yet, and it is never fair to compare games from different generations that aren't even in the same series.
@@tonylawson2222 I said this same thing with SMT5 but you wouldn't believe how many people are so DETERMINED to put down Persona to bring that game up. It's such a shame
I haven't played this yet, but it gives me vibes of a blend between P5 and FE3H (two games I adored).
Would you say that's accurate at all?
Story wise (mind you I'm 5 hours in) you can feel a few Fe3h beats. That's about all you get, even the settings don't really line up outside of medival. You get the time mechanic and UI/appearance from P5. Job system from etrian odyssey. Combat from DDS. All with a few little things to make it its own
@@DJ-uu3pz Sounds really good, thanks for the info.
Because it's Persona 6: SMT
Is it a masterpiece tho?
@@macsis6338 Demo is *gas*
And it's *free*
@@tonylawson2222so it smells bad?
When friends are asking me how the game compare to Persona my response is mostly: it's Atlus Elder Ring. The culmination of everything they learned from previous games. At first glance it doesn't appears to be nothing new but it is easily proved wrong
@@maoulegna
I would argue that a culmination of all their previous work into one cohesive, functioning whole, is, in and of itself, an original thing to do.
Elden ring is a big deal, more than any souls game, for this same reason. It isn't really new. What it is, is well cooked. So is Metaphor Re:fantazio.
@@tonylawson2222 Elden Ring had a ton of problems related to trying something new, wdym
"NO GUYS ALL THOSE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE GAME ARE JUST MAD THAT IT HAS THE SAME GAMEPLAY AS PERSONA AND SMT NOT THAT THEY REWRITE THE DIOLOGUE PLEASE BUY THE GAME PLEASE BUY THE GAMEPLEASE BUY THEPLEASE BUY THE GAME GAMEPLEASE BUY THE GAMEPLEASE BUY THE GAMEPLEASE BUY THE GAMEPLEASE BUY THE GAMEPLEASE BUY THE GAME"
Not funny.
@@Gokuvsnaruto22 go buy the game consumer
@@spaz-the-space-wizard meds schizo
Pre-ordered and it's already downloaded . Ready when all of you are . Lol I'm really excited
i'm really annoyed by people who are putting persona down in order to praise this game. Like, persona is amazing, leave it out of the conversation please? This is something else, something special on its own. It can stand on its own. Also, its way more a Final Fantasy x SMT game than a persona game anyway.
@@zupasha
Atlus worked too hard on the Etrian Odyssey series, and it's complex class and subclass systems, for people to keep giving final fantasy credit here.
Square deserves no credit. It's Atlus programmers who slaved away for low wages and long hours making DS dungeon crawler games that didn't sell very well for decades, in order to give us the bones of this new game.
Bro knew I was waiting for my countdown clock on when I could play this game to hit 0
99% passive animé, 1% active gameplay
nah lol
I'll definitely give the demo a shot but if I do end up liking it I'll wait till it goes on sale as I avoid 70 dollar games on principal. Also as someone who has played quite a bit of Atlus' SMT catalogue it just comes across as a Persona structure with an SMT coat of paint and a job system. Now if the story hooks me I'll be all in but if not then again going on sale. Also the hype, i've had experiences where games and movies were hyped up to be the second coming of Christ only for them to be average at best (Horizon Zero Dawn, The Outer Worlds, Star Wars The Force Awakens and the Spider-verse movies.) and I don't want to go through that again. On top of the fact I'm going for SMTVV's platinum and starting to get burned out on massive JRPG's.
Hate to burst your bubble but the story is the worst thing about this game. Games better than persona 1 so far but that’s about all the praise I can give it. Unfortunately Hashino is not back, guess p5 was just a fluke of a masterpiece
@@t_bone2145with 2008 graphics as well😂
@@t_bone2145 You said the reviewers got paid off so why would anyone take what you say and run with it clown?
The story isn’t bad if you can’t even give one valid critique about it.
I wish it played more like SMT or even Etrian Odyssey, but i'm having fun carrying on from my demo run. Have to say Im not the greatest fan of some of the heavy P5 copying, and the menu can be overly messy at times
Fr it’s the little things like the tournament rank that doesn’t make sense at all and feels like it’s only there to be an alternate version of the online poll in p5. I wish this game felt more unique
Xbox marketing is the worst. No way in hell those Xbots will play a weeb game.
Coming out near sparking zero was a mistake
Lmao
You’re on drugs if you think a JRPG is competing with a anime fighting game.
2:37 I still see social links and social stats what’s so different
It's an SMT game with Persona's formula. The vibes are SMT, the battle system is SMT, the dungeons are SMT, but all in the Persona formula.
@@t_bone2145 everybody is the wildcard, but nobody can change personas in battle.
Archetypes, the new "personas," are more of a class system than individual fusable creatures. They each have unique passives and active skills. They can all inherit one skill from any other Archetypes to start, and more as you level up your social link with the corresponding follower.
What weapons and armor your characters can equip depends on their Archetype.
You can't date or sleep with party members. Perhaps some social links, which are called followers here, but I haven't gotten there to know.
The story is more mature, political, and serious, yet also firmly High Fantasy. The Characters vary in ages and aren't high school students.
The 3 physical damage types are back as resistance and weaknesses. Slash, pierce, and bludgeoning.
There are more and varied dungeons, which feature optional overworld combat. There are items from Etrian Odyssey, such as the Ariande Thread that let's you teleport out of a dungeon immediately.
Those social stats effect your access to necessary merchants, as well as to followers and side quests. They are part of the metric used to judge your worthiness as a leader, to potentially become king, so they are probably the most important they've ever narratively been, as well as their status as a merchant gate.
The plot isn't persona or smt. It's something new.
@@backupschmliff1156You just made up shit for youtube likes, get a life
You should compare this game to something else using a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them. Just make sure not to use "like" or "as". That would be a simile.
So I have to make this fun note will quick. It about encounters. It sounds similar how the recent trails(the legend of heroes) series does it combat encounters. I just wanted to make an note of that since the legend of heroes series is underrated along with series life tales and star ocean.
Oh look, another 3 anime characters in a row game. Yawn
Was hoping it was more SMT than persona. Pass
Have you played the demo? I'd say it's in between.