Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, PS4) (October 11, 2024)

[Gizmo_Duck]

What do yall rate this

9/10 for me



And yall can come back to this after you finish the game…

Spoiler: Final area/mission/boss

I feel like Louis wasn’t carefully fleshed out (pause). I liked him until about the big climatic middle part where he ends up getting the best of you and the church. but i thought he had a better plan at the end then all out survival of the fittest/sephiroth style anarchy. His motivations just didn’t end up making a lot of sense. When the main party confronts him about why he’s doing it and how stupid it is i feel like he had no reasonable retort. He basically did the equivalent to “sony stans “ and said let’s fight. For someone that is supposed to be highly intelligent and in clear mind it just didn’t really fit the character but it felt like they wrote themselves into a corner and needed that big final boss confrontation


As for the characters, i think i got kind of bored of them by the end. People like Heismay and Bastillio have good character arch’s but people like Junah just feel like this games Annne Takamaki. Just very stupid shallow storyline about signing like Anne’s modeling side story.

I think the entire last 3rd of the game kind of runs out of steam. By the time you get your last month, it feels like the 4th disc syndrome where you’re just kind of ready for it to end. Ugly dark sky, optional content to go do, conclusions to side quests, etc. but it last way too long. Then you have another lengthy prologue that honestly isn’t that satisfying. You’re now king but you’re gonna leave your kingdom which is just now starting to prosper again because you’re bored? Well ok…i guess that was all for nothing then

 

[Flexington]

What do yall rate this

I need to finish it, so my score may change bjt is give it an 8.5/10 for now.

Still need to see how the story wraps up, but it had decent pacing and kept me interested throughout. Some themes and story arcs were surprisingly mature and felt refreshing.

However, like a lot of JRPGs combat wise it tends to wear out its welcome towards the end. Some of these later optional fights become puzzles more so than anything. Kinds takes away from the feeling of going in and surviving/figuring it out on the fly.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I need to finish it, so my score may change bjt is give it an 8.5/10 for now.

Still need to see how the story wraps up, but it had decent pacing and kept me interested throughout. Some themes and story arcs were surprisingly mature and felt refreshing.

However, like a lot of JRPGs combat wise it tends to wear out its welcome towards the end. Some of these later optional fights become puzzles more so than anything. Kinds takes away from the feeling of going in and surviving/figuring it out on the fly.

Also not a lot of enemy variety. coming from persona that has like 200 enemies, this only has the 40 or so. Probably because they had to animate entirely new stuff by hand and have them out in the field unlike persona.

In persona you are encountering new enemy types well into the last month, but this kind of taps out early

 

[Mowgli]

Also not a lot of enemy variety. coming from persona that has like 200 enemies, this only has the 40 or so. Probably because they had to animate entirely new stuff by hand and have them out in the field unlike persona.

In persona you are encountering new enemy types well into the last month, but this kind of taps out early

That enemy count is pathetic. I'll wait for the sale.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

That enemy count is pathetic. I'll wait for the sale.

Don’t quote me on that

it just feels really small to me for how long the game is pause

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Animal House]

Got to mid September and damn this keeps getting better and better, already better than Persona 5

I’m in the minority but SMT 5 is one of favorite games this year so I’m highly anticipating the ending to this. Atlus been cooking that crack

 

[winb83]

Spoilers for a late game cutscene involving the antagonist

Spoiler

did this fool just toss some fake horns on the ground after sonning the king's force ghost? Like as a child he went out and bought some fake horns and periodically been updating them to be larger as he grew older. He really ran a long con.

 

[Mr Clean]

Sheesh. I packed up the final boss quick. I don't even know what it does

The amount of exp in the final zone is crazy. Went from 71 to 80 and got enough MAG to unlock the full board on the main character.

Spoiler

Got the helmet frome More that gives another half action and the sword with 500 attack that prevents anxiety. I'm guessing that was the gimmick in the last fight but I wouldn't know . Used the Prince move that gives another 4 turns and gave Strohl 2 turns, one to concentrate and then another for Hassou Kobe after getting charged by Junah. Each hit was doing 2500 damage a piece

I ain't even have to use the 9999 nuke which I had in the back pocket. I brought that out with the 3 headed boss.

This shyt was a massacre in all 3 rounds

Game is classic and maybe top 3 games Atlus made as a total package.

Only thing that let me down was how the archetypes system works. More to do with how much exp you naturally get and how switching to a higher tier class put you back at square one. They should have let you carry a few moves over and then they evolve at certain levels. You can just stay on the mastered class and collect the a-exp material but honestly that shyt was very unrewarding and tedious to do. I wanna level up from playing, not in a damn menu. Would have liked to play these different classes and level up naturally and at reasonable pace.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Sheesh. I packed up the final boss quick. I don't even know what it does

The amount of exp in the final zone is crazy. Went from 71 to 80 and got enough MAG to unlock the full board on the main character.

Spoiler

Got the helmet frome More that gives another half action and the sword with 500 attack that prevents anxiety. I'm guessing that was the gimmick in the last fight but I wouldn't know . Used the Prince move that gives another 4 turns and gave Strohl 2 turns, one to concentrate and then another for Hassou Kobe after getting charged by Junah. Each hit was doing 2500 damage a piece

I ain't even have to use the 9999 nuke which I had in the back pocket. I brought that out with the 3 headed boss.

This shyt was a massacre in all 3 rounds

Game is classic and maybe top 3 games Atlus made as a total package.

Only thing that let me down was how the archetypes system works. More to do with how much exp you naturally get and how switching to a higher tier class put you back at square one. They should have let you carry a few moves over and then they evolve at certain levels. You can just stay on the mastered class and collect the a-exp material but honestly that shyt was very unrewarding and tedious to do. I wanna level up from playing, not in a damn menu. Would have liked to play these different classes and level up naturally and at reasonable pace.

Spoiler: End archetype leveling

it kind of compounds the tedium when they give you the royal archetypes that are clearly the best of the best of everything and then they still want you to level the other ones on top of it. It makes the rest of your effort redundant

 

[kdslittlebro]

How the music hitting on this? That P5 OST is John Blaze

 

[Water]

worth full price? or should I wait until they release a deluxe edition like p5?

 

[Microfracture]

worth full price? or should I wait until they release a deluxe edition like p5?

Worth full price. Haven't beaten it yet but I don't think they'll do a Royal like release with this one

Getting your money's worth is never an issue with Atlus games

 

[Zero]

I HATE yall nikkas


I can't get started until next week

 

[Animal House]

I HATE yall nikkas


I can't get started until next week

My time is limited these days, every chance I got I’m on this. Not done yet but damn it’s Atlus in their bag

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