Metaphor: ReFantazio is the inscrutable identify for Atlus’ subsequent RPG venture. The corporate launched a brand new trailer and a 30-minute video introducing gamers to the story, gameplay, and social components of the sport, and at first blush, it appears to be like fairly rattling intriguing. Take a look at the gameplay video beneath.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is an motion RPG from Studio Zero, a brand new inside studio spun up in 2016 and headed by Katsura Hashino. Atlus actually desires you to know the bona fides of the builders engaged on Metaphor. Hashino himself labored on Shin Megami Tensei III, Persona 3, 4, and 5. The sport’s mechanical designer is Ikuto Yamashita, who helped design the mechs in Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Shoji Meguro, who did the music for the Persona collection, has returned to work on Metaphor. In one of many gameplay video’s funnier moments, it’s revealed that each one the fight music is the results of a magic spell that performs music within the protagonist’s head.
The sport combines real-time motion fight with tactical turn-based gameplay. Weaker enemies you’ll be able to kill in a single blow with out the necessity to decelerate the sport with turn-based combating. However for more durable opponents, you’ll be able to assault them to weaken them and acquire the aspect of shock earlier than calling in your occasion members to complete them off in turn-based fight. Based mostly on the video, it appears to be like like Atlus is remixing Persona-style fight with an motion RPG twist that appears fairly fascinating.
One other aspect Atlus shared was the sport’s social actions. The gameplay video didn’t expressly state there can be no quick journey in Metaphor; slightly, the protagonist and crew will get from place to position using a automobile straight out of Howl’s Shifting Fortress. It was known as the Gauntlet Runner, a big RV-type contraption that makes use of big legs to maneuver. When you journey to your subsequent vacation spot, you need to use the time to get to know your occasion members, {cook} stat-boosting meals, or take a nap.
With Metaphor: ReFantazio, it actually appears Atlus has made another RPG hit, dripping with inventive type. (Atlus’ menu sport stays unmatched.) Higher but, Atlus has shared the sport’s launch date: October eleventh on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.