this was just awful

>t. retard

>>717840119
we don't sign our posts here

>>717840027 (OP)
I loved it. I honestly think that it could become better than Persona if they continue to flesh it out
>but muh dating!
You'll survive. These games were never about dating. All the "dating" amounts to is a 2 minute cutscene in a 100 hour JRPG. The social links in Metaphor are excellent because they aren't all teenagers.

>>717840027 (OP)
Okay brainlet

>mogged by CCP33

>>717840027 (OP)
It was ok. We could have had Disco Elysium anime edition but they decided to make it bland fantasy Persona instead

>>717840027 (OP)
It's crazy how poor it looks compared to P3R
>low poly everything
>AA isn't implemented
>lighting is ass
>textures are horrendous
>story is the same clicheed Persona stuff minus the romance
The reviews don't make sense

>>717840027 (OP)
>PS5
yeah i can imagine that being pretty miserable. anyways, metaphor refantazio was one of the best games i've played on PC this year

I’m overdue for a blasting of the sound track, thanks for reminding me faglord OP.

>>717840370
the reviews didn't play the game past the first dungeon lol it's blatantly clear as well.

True Clair Obscure Expedition 33 is where jrpgs peaked and they'll never get better

>>717840370
I like how you threw that bit in about the story when its clear you've never played the game. P3R is made in unreal. Metaphor is using the p5 engine from the ps3.

+33 social credit

>>717840027 (OP)
From this day, the only JRPG and ANIMR game to ever get a Bafta award.

the story takes a nosedive after the opera house event

>>717840602
>when its clear you've never played the game
It's literally get to location > power of friendship > go to next location. The social links are arguably even worse than Persona in that regard

>>717840670
BAFTA's for gaming lost even the most miniscule amount of relevance they had the moment they gifted one to the Miles Morales guy (while snubbing Ben Starr)

>Excremation 33 fags join the thread

>>717840872
Lol look at the size of this cope lmao AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH

>>717840484
The big intro city is probably the most offensive part of the whole game graphicly. Sections of it look like they came out straight of day 1 PS2 games like Summoner

>>717840027 (OP)
>What if persona but liberal propaganda

>>717840183
kek

>>717840027 (OP)
I liked it, but I have zero desire to replay it. And this is from someone who's played personas 3-5 at least three times each.

>>717841372
>

>>717840183
obliterated

Nah, it was great. My favorite game from last year. I know this is just a shitpost thread but the only thing the game was missing was having the Mage Academy as another dungeon. Besides that it was pretty amazing and Im looking forward to Hashino's next game.

>>717840602
The power of friendship ending ruins any level of nuance the plot had by that point. They don't even try to justify why the (liberal democratic) player is keeping the evil empire together and just say everyone is so happy under their new god emperor

>>717841769
It's crazy that there's people out here who honestly think this slop was amazing, bing bing wahoo behavior

>>717841648
I mean there isn't really any reason to replay it. One hard boss fight in the library, that's about it I think? No other content to redo everything for.

>>717840027 (OP)
Actually enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. I thought Metaphor had a lot stronger writing than Persona has had in ages, and the fantasy road trip gimmick was a nice shake-up to the calendar system.

I thought the archetype system was fun too, though I think the Royal Archetypes kind of bungle it up by giving the late-game an obvious best-choice end-goal to work towards instead of forcing you to come up with your own fully customized party choices.

>>717840027 (OP)
Why does the MC look like the MC from P3?

>>717841769
>>717841862
you didn't play the original game you played a fanfiction interpretation of localizers.

>>717841862
you had to ruin it at the end
>le I just hate everything >:(((

Are there mods to fix the liberal propaganda localization?

>>717841862
Sounds like a (You) problem, OP.
>>717842029
Strohl is still best boy.

>>717841868
Well i did start a solo character run like i do with most rpgs, but it's kind of a pain in the ass since you can't swap your entire party out for a long time, so i have to use cheat engine to lock everyone else's hp to 0.
Except since everyone's "supposed" to start at 1 minimum, having anyone dead when you start an encounter causes the game to crash, so you have to keep flipping their health around which got annoying.

>>717840027 (OP)
Don't talk about persona 5 like that.

>>717840027 (OP)
>woke
>:[
>woke, anime
>:D

>>717841769
Yeah, Rella and by extension Junah's backstory arc was the one thing I felt was rushed. I'd actually welcome the Persona Royal treatment if it gave the the chance to fill in what was probably supposed to be there in the first place, but I kind of doubt they'll go for it, being the first game of a new IP.

>>717840027 (OP)
That had to be one of the worst game cover arts I've ever seen.

>>717842171
Strohl's best bro but I think Basilio surprised me with my favorite recruitment arc of the game

>>717842585
You have never explored true shovelware

Nothing in this sht game is compared to Lunes feet

I was not

>>717842361
Demons are sucker punching your head from behind with a windup

>>717841769
Just happy Atlus had a good mascot character for once

>>717840872
Switch E33 and Metaphor. Metaphor is the weakest one of all those RPGs

Has any major game villain from the last few years really been able to compete with Lewis?

Painted Renoir maybe? And the Subway Slammer.

I think Metaphor is an okay first entry for a new ip, combat was notably better than persona games, but the story and characters were notably mediocre in comparison, was like a 7/10 for me. The calendar mechanic did fuck all and did not need to be there though

>>717843341
I don't know, maybe I'm just down on Persona 5 but I liked having a cast focused more on adults for once. You get to explore a cast that's actually okay with their primary mission being a political assassination, rather than awkwardly dancing around its own moral quandaries while writing villains that are cartoonishly evil enough to star in Captain Planet.

>>717840027 (OP)
The translation team doesn't know japanese

>>717840027 (OP)
chuds only hate this game because it promotes anti-racism

>>717843661
I wonder what he says in the original text

>>717840765
>>717841785
yep, you've never played it. Your opinion means nothing

>>717842361
The people who like this game are not the people who hate woke shit, anon.

>>717840872
Where is the Rebirth edit?

>>717843945
If only there were people out there going through the game and cataloging all the problems. Maybe even re-translating some things.

>>717843896
>shitty, rizzless protagonist
>no waifus, no dating elements
>no memorable moments
>music devoid of substance
It just doesn't hit

I think the optional dungeons are a chore by the end and they should have let me put Junah in a cute witch's hat instead of her default outfit, but beyond that I had fun

>>717843810
I noticed this fucking thing localizers do where they change the original wholesome, cute, funny text into something out of rick and morty, full of snarkiness, hatred and bitterness. sad people

>>717844152
yeah maybe

>>717844207
>he doesn't know that you get married
You fags don't play video games

>>717843998
There were plenty of people defending this shit saying it wasn't woke. Sure, a lot of it must have been falseflagging and shit but there were definitely some people who legitimately thought that, just like with BG3.

I have anit-woke fatigue

>>717843810
Seems fine to me. Shitty localization is when the entire message is written out or replaced with a topical meme and internet speech.

>>717843970
cope

The game says that the government probably shouldn't blindly genocide minorities so people here want to bitch and moan about it

>>717844839
>the (((government))) probably shouldn't blindly genocide minorities
AAAAAAH SHUT IT DOWN

>>717843341
Yeah it wasn't bad and I enjoyed my time with it but it was just so painfully mid and kind of boring sometimes

expanded version with my wife when?

All jrpgs are dogshit, what did you expect, retard?

>>717840765
I don't recall the power of friendship saving all the dead kids from the serial killer who ends up being publicly executed despite her tragic backstory

>>717840183
>we
Samefag

>>717840027 (OP)
Rebirth chad here

Rebirth > Exp33 >>>>>> Metaphor.

No, im not being a hater. I genuinely thought metaphor was pretty mediocre for all the hype it had.

Racism…is LE BAD

what a riveting message

catherine is a far more interesting game than atlus rpg #74

Nobody played this everyone bout Clair Obscure Expedition 33 instead

>>717840872
LMAO

>>717840027 (OP)
It's not a bad game but I don't like it as much as Persona, and all the dialogue about discrimination gets really repetitive and grating.

>>717844719
They fucked up the lore. Nidai being treated as worthless happened in the distant past. And then the race as a whole used magic to make themselves look better. So it's a racial trait. Junah didn't individually learn magic to look better. Her people did a long time ago.

Ummm it's okay that it's preachy and cringe because it's called METAPHOR?!?!?!? Do you even media literacy!?!?!?

>>717844839
Atlus paypigs try to deflect to the narrative that metaphor is maligned because of culture war bullshit. The reality is every single facet of the game is mediocre at best and in some cases, like graphically, outright bad. If metaphor was properly rated as a 6 or maybe 7 out of 10 there would be no push back. It is the egregious claim that this middling forgettable and uninspired rehashed leftovers of typical atlus fare is deserving of a 9 and goty contention that sparks so much ire. Imagine if pokemon fans claimed scarlet and violet were 9/10 games and goty material. It's literally the same situation to a T.

Metaphor stings even worse because at least there was the hope that Atlus would shake things up and do a little innovation. That's what hurts the most. And atlus pay pigs defend this despicable behavior? Get the fuck out.

is the crack fully playable?

>>717845170
Both those games aren't even in the ballpark of Clair Obscure Expedition 33

Metaphor god here

Metaphor >>> E33 >>>>>>>> Rebirth

No, im not being a hater. I genuinely thought Rebirth was pretty mediocre for all the hype it had.

>>717843130
Louis is up there as one of my favorite JRPG villains this decade, I love how he gets off on being a manipulative bastard

>>717845376
I liked playing in a setting where humans are the bottom of the food chain only to save the world again, hope we get more games like that (with fairy companions)

I finished the demo when it came out and it was mediocre at best (while also looking like ass because AA didn't work). Does it even improve somewhat later on?

>>717840027 (OP)
Outside of the wild tonal shifts, one of the best games I've played recently. It would have benefited by being more 60 30 10 harsh drama, character drama, comedy instead of 33 33 33

>>717845708
Not really, what didnt you like?
The game gives you more jobs but they are useless lvl 1 so you have to grind them. The social links are pretty boring, disconnected from the plot, retardproof since thye will always move forward (meaning you dont have any agency on how they develop) and MANDATORY so you can get better jobs.
As for the combat itself, its just more of the same.
The graphics stay ugly.
The demo already gave you all the music you will be listening for the rest of the game, mostly.
The story is meh.

>>717845170
>>717845562
Hey, I really liked Metaphor and Rebirth. They were my favorite games of 2024. Is E33 really that good? I've been deterred from playing it because people are so hyperbolic about it, and its clear to me that a lot of people praising it don't play other JRPGs. The two of you are clearly JRPG fans, so I would like your informed opinions.

>>717845572
HIs voice actor did such a good job. The multiple fights with him were pure kino

>>717845963
You wont regret it playing it, but the story kinda falls apart in act 3, and the combat balance is broken

S T A Y
M A D

>>717845887
So I didn't miss anything. Shame.

>>717846028
I hate that his third fight uses the standard boss music

>>717846493
At least his final boss theme is amazing
https://youtu.be/yZOIelz11bg?si=y-YQPODhYlCnvLeE
>mfw 2:15

The pacing is way better than anything in the Persona series, but the archetypes feels very uninspired, like they didn't knew how to make proper jobs and decided to recycle the formula

>>717845963
Its literally the best jrpg on the market

>>717845396
Her stating that she learned glamours doesn't imply that other Nidia didn't.

>>717847723
Buy an ad

>>717846034
Thanks, I think I'll pick it up around the holidays. Have a lot of other games to finish first

>>717845572
What's funny is that as manipulative as he is, he doesn't really lie to do it. He's very blunt about most of the atrocities he commits, he just knows how to play to people's fears and anger to justify it.

This game wasn't awful but it was a letdown for me.
I expected a new great RPG from Atlus, but what they delivered was a watered down Persona.

It was so extremely formulaic with boring as FUCK dungeons and enemy variety and encounter design.
Atlus is capable of much fucking better.

>>717844782
80gb? Goddamn

>>717840027 (OP)
filtered, nothing much to say

the final stretch of bosses were complete dogshit

>>717840027 (OP)
It really, reeeaaaally lost steam after the first dozen hours or so. Even more than Persona 5 did. I dropped it somewhere in that horrendous dragon temple after meeting the chick with the eye in her forehead. What is it with Atlus and dogshit dungeons.

>>717848508
Shit taste

>>717840226
>Teachers
>Old people
>A journalist
>A school psychologist
The social links in Persona aren't all teenagers too. But I agree about the dating. Plus it's kinda in the game anyway. You can get flirtatious with basically all your female party members at the end of their links.

>>717848580
>filtered by the best dungeon
Etrian Odyssey is dead but still is filtering imbeciles.

>>717843661
>多様性を認める事は、個人差を認めtるという事。。。 つまり、どうしても強者や弱者が現れる
>不平等のまったく無い自由競争だからこそ弱者がすり潰されることもあるはずだ。
So the basic thing here is that it's a Utopia reference(the novel) and they're counter arguing against Utopia. So the jist of Heismay's argument here is that if you accept diversity and by proxy the individual differences between people, there's going to be strong people and weak people(Note this doesn't just mean physically it can also mean advantaged/disadvantaged). That will happen no matter what. And if there's no discrimination, then you have free competition which leads to the weak being crushed. So where they really screw up here is that they don't understand the actual debate.
>You cannot pretend at diversity without acknowledging individual differences
Which is wrong. He's saying individual differences are inherent to diversity. And it's not that people will be judged as weak or strong but that weak and strong will exist. That's another inherent component of diversity.
>Equal competition doesn't mean equal footing
is again wrong, No discrimination = free competition. And if you have the weak and strong freely competing, the weak will lose.
It's like they don't understand "equality" "diversity" are very broad concepts. This could apply to a lot of things, like using tariffs to make foreign goods more expensive and incentivize buying locally produced goods(This is historical use of tariffs). Or any kind of isolationists policies, showing preferential treatment to natives to maintain cultural identity. A lot of stuff like that. Or just the rationale for having government to begin with. Like Hobbes man in the state of nature thing.

>>717848118
Yea sure, but he does love manipulating the masses, first with the funeral and then with making Wil transform. And he really did enjoy that.

>>717845396
>Oh no, they re-wrote dialog to have a more human flow because direct translations to EN make every Jap sound like a robot with zero character voice.
This is just autism. Especially because no, they still very much explain that it's a racial trait. Junah implying she learned glamors doesn't imply others don't. Bad translation is adding shit that wasn't there/adding your own fanfic. This is just sentence restructuring with clearer character voice.

>>717841479
>The big intro city is probably the most offensive part of the whole game graphicly
You're having a laugh if you think the city is bad when the N64 sand zone immediately before the city exists

>>717845963
It's parry slop, so if you hate most JRPGs, you'll like E33. It was specifically designed for people who don't like stats. So do you like parrying? Your enjoyment is 100% contingent on that, it's the only real gameplay. The rest of the "builds" are completely illusory, you can wipe your ass on the stat screen, it's impossible to make a bad build, and the game throws you free respects literally all the time, so no builds are ever permanent either.

>>717848508
What's the problem?

>>717840370
P3r is the most disgusting plastic garbage I've ever seen come out of UE

>>717842064
>>717848712
>>717845396
Reminder you are not Japanese, you will never speak Japanese on a native level, and you will never understand Japanese culture.
Additional reminder you do not have any way of understanding the intent behind the original Japanese script, and that means you have no frame of reference to judge whether any translation or localization is more faithful than another, literal or otherwise.
Final reminder that even if you were an anthropologist or a linguist, you would have at best a dog's level of understanding of what Japanese people mean when they say or write something in Japanese. But you are neither of those things. You are a fat fuck who consumes media and creates nothing.

>>717845396
It's exactly like that in the localization. Junah being a Mage Academy dropout is a different thing

>>717850234
you got sucker punched?

>>717850234
>you will never speak Japanese on a native level, and you will never understand Japanese culture.
If you are a native japanese speaker and disagree with my comments about Heismay. Go ahead, shoot, explain where I went wrong.

>>717840027 (OP)
I didn’t like royal archetypes. Made me feel like I should only use them by the end of the game.
I would have just made unique passives or something for each character to individualize them beyond the stats

You can tell how hard this game mogged the competition when it still lives rent free in a couple retards' heads like this

zero cultural impact

ITT:

>>717850784
It seems like it completely devastated SEA culturally tho

>>717850712
Stillbirth snoys really can't help themselves.

>>717850784
Yeah, Rebirth made zero cultural impact.

>>717849307
>See, I can parry every single attack!
>I never take damage! Builds don't matter!
>takes 30,000 turns to win a fight
Retard

>>717840353
japs cannot into computer roleplaying and it's so painful because it's clear that hashino is familiar with tabletop rpgs and has played them and has said in interviews how much he enjoys them but he's either completely missed the point of them or he's genuinely just too stupid to implement any roleplaying in his games

>>717851057
It's better to be a parry spammer than engaging with that gachashit picto system desu

>>717851109
Someone from the current persona team wrote this post

>>717851109
>t. Wada seething

>>717851253
And they'd be 100% correct

>>717845562
Post hand

>>717840027 (OP)
Ugly ass game.

Nah, it was solid.
It's actually a little funny to me how Rebirth, Metaphor, and E33 are each the epitome of a 7/10, 8/10, and 9/10 game, respectively.

>>717852949
more like 9/10, 9/10, and 7/10

>>717852949
They are all 7/10s

It's almost as if Persona/SMT is only popular because of a meme of two autistic friends sperg on YT and the demon designs.
And without that it sucks ass.
Weird, huh?

>>717840027 (OP)
Fatlus is most overrated dev ever. I barely got through Persona 5 and this shit is holding a higher meta score than Chrono Trigger and FF7. Amazing.

>>717853043
Wrong
>>717853134
Nah

>>717853380
frenchoid games will never be more than a 7/10, and even that is being generous

Atlus is just the fancy version of Game Freak

>>717851057
You do damage. There's no way to fuck up your build. In fact, that gachashit picto system was so broken that the game caps your motherfucking damage until lategame. Because they knew the system was that easy to break. So instead of re-balancing it, they just punish you for optimizing your build. You'll never do more than 9999 damage until you unlock the endgame.

>>717853363
>I barely got through Persona 5 and this shit is holding a higher meta score than Chrono Trigger and FF7. Amazing.
Stay mad

>>717840027 (OP)
I liked the part in the Heismay dungeon where the whole story of the dungeon is given to you in the last five seconds by Strohl speedreading a book he finds on the floor

>>717851057
Fucking what? Did you play the fucking game? Being good at parrying means you'll win. Not to mention you get a massive counterattack if you perfect parry consistently enough. So not only do you take zero damage and your build is irrelevant, it's the best way to deal punish damage to enemies too. It's what the gameplay hinges on completely. If you don't like parrying, don't fucking play it. I thought it was fun, for parry slop, but not a 10/10 masterpiece and I fucking hate all stories with a retarded "all a dream" twist. I predicted it was set in a painting at the very start since everything is paint terminology, and when they started revealing that bit I was genuinely groaning.

bump

>>717853915
>linear snake ass dungeon you can only go through once on a timer
>sewer level
>quarter of a mansion
game legitimately has like 3 major dungeons and one of them was straight up stolen from Etrian Odyssey it's impressive how half assed everything is

>>717850453
I'll double dip here anon, If (You) explain how I messed up some basic Japanese, it would be purely beneficial. I would much rather make a mistake and be corrected by expert like (You) than make claims I think are true but could be false.

>>717854130
>It's what the gameplay hinges on completely
Yeah, it's the perfect way to add a skill curve to turn based battles.
You start every battle being cautious and dodging and failing a lot because you don't know the attacks. Then you start to learn the patterns and can dodge consistently, and then you start trying to parry and get punished for missing until you can finally parry consistently.
If your build sucks you won't survive long enough to learn because getting hit will wreck you. Every boss battle has its own incredibly satisfying arc of defeat, struggle, and triumph as a result. It also solves the problem of repetitive encounters because you've learned their patterns and can counter every time, making them take a fraction of the time. It's frankly astonishing so few JRPGs have tried this up until now.

>>717840027 (OP)
Nah. Has some of my favorite bosses in a MegaTen game. I fought the hardest Tower Trial Dragon before all the others and 10 levels under level and it was a fucking blast adjusting my strategy to win. The game really takes some of the best aspects of various MegaTen games. I don't even need them to reuse the setting for a new game, I just want more of this alongside regular SMT and Persona releases.

>>717855623
Nta but that sounds like absolute garbage and it is and the retarded parrying mechanic sucked the fun out of that game. You know the industry is fucked when people are praising quicktime events as innovative gameplay

>>717856796
Nope, it was a blast and I hope all JRPGs are like this from now on.
Fortunately, many will be if this is any indication.

>>717840027 (OP)
it wasn't awful, just poorly designed in an attempt to make it as close to Persona as possible even when it didn't really work or make sense
and the characters are awful, the plot has potential but went the most boring route
the gameplay is great tho

>>717845072
uh, because its an specific story you picked to disprove the fundamental core loop? kill yourself

>>717842083
you type like a fucking faggot

>>717840027 (OP)
>woke persona
no shit

>>717856238
You mean the bosses that typically die in one turn late game?

>>717858419
anon should kill himself because he countered a claim with in-game evidence?

ninten-yearolds are still seething huh

>>717844246
dancer juna is the best outfit anyway
actually all Etrian Odyssey outfits are the best ones

>>717859306
yeah he was nitpicking

>>717840027 (OP)
I just couldn't take that faggy MC seriously. Let me play as a normal adult man, is it too much to ask?

>>717860125
think about the female audiences, and by female i mean $$$$$$$

>>717840265
>mogged
Opinion discarded. You talk like a faggot.

>>717840027 (OP)
>5 hours of farming good-boy points, followed by another 5 hours of grinding the same gobln to reach the next level check
>rinse and repeat
The fact that this game got 90+ scores is a genuine crime. And this is before we even get to the terrible japanese storytelling.

>>717850784
Worse than zero cultural impact.
It negatively impacted culture by forcing players to grind dungeons to advance.
Atlus released another game full of low-effort bloat, and got rewarded for it.

>>717860887
>terrible japanese storytelling.
They thought it was a good idea to make Heismay welsh. Why do you trust the translation team to get the storytelling across?

>>717850784
There have been less than 20 games in the history of video games that had any "cultural impact"

>>717861858
Expedition 33 did it on their first try.
No excuses ShitLus.

>>717862257
This rivalry is forced. Are you only capable of conversing through fandom wars garbage?

>>717862430
>le heckin fandom war
That's your forced perception.
I've been railing against Atlus' way before Expedition 33. The only difference is now they can't get away with it because we have undeniable evidence they could have done more.

>the Excremation 33 shill is at full force
Back to your ad thread, frog.

>>717863720
That just shows how low JRPGs set the bar.
People actually thought Metaphor Refantazio deserved a 93 last year which is horrific in retrospect.

>>717864182
>That just shows how low JRPGs set the bar
>99% of JRPGs are 70 or lower
Such low bar.

>>717840027 (OP)
Not a fan of the gameplay. Found the job system barebones (playing it right after Crystal Project certainly didn't help), the dungeon design was very average and i don't like the social sim stuff from Persona. Didn't care for the story (to be fair, i don't care for 99% of video game stories, including stories that people usually praise like RDR2, TW3, etc.). The in-game graphics were genuinely subpar and the OST while not bad is my least favorite from any Atlus games since Strange Journey and Devil Survivor.

Overall a 6/10 for me. Crystal Project, Romancing Saga 2 and NEO The World End With You are much better JRPGs from this decade.

>>717864294
Yea? I mean, you're proving my point.
But I think Atlus is especially nefarious because it gets a free pass for its lazy mechanics. Whenever you rate an Atlus game, you're alwaays grading it on a curve (i.e. "It's good for a JRPG!" ,"ATlus is a small company prease understand!"), never on its contributions to the genre. Because if you actually did, you'd be forced to admit that Metaphor Refantazio is a subpar visual novel with hours of mindless grinding.

Genuinely question: why do people praise the Press Turn so much? Isn't it bad when a battle system makes the choice-making part obvious for the player? Why shouldn't i abuse the enemy's weakness when i have the chance?

I dunno, when i think of a great battle system i think of Saga, not this.

>>717864402
I'm never touching that Crystal Project shit but the Romancing SaGa 2 remake was good.

>only the devs I don't like have bonus scores
You're a subhuman brown.

>>717864832
>Why shouldn't i abuse the enemy's weakness when i have the chance?
This applies to literally everything.

>>717840872
i laughed

It just looks so faggy.

>>717840027 (OP)
Awfully good, Atlus did it again

>>717865524
Your family says the same about you.

It's not bad, but it's not good either. It's meh. I would have preferred if all the monsters were surreal Bosch monsters instead of only a part of them, and also if the fighting mechanics weren't based on summoning persona-like things.

He doesn't look strong like a fighter, he doesn't look wise like a wizard, he doesn't look cunning like a rogue. He doesn't look like anything. He's neither cool, nor is he interesting in the slightest. I can't begin to fathom how how someone looked at this and thought this design was worthy of greenlighting

Can any Metaphorers sell me on this loser's design?

Am I safe to participate or is this a bad faith thread hater thread ?

>>717840027 (OP)
I liked it a lot
>based as fuck characters and dialogue
>fantastic ost by Meguro
>fun combat with many different archetypes and skills
overall just a ridiculously comfy game.
just thinking about it already swells me up with nostalgia and it was just last year.
https://youtu.be/heHWE89k220

>>717866617
He's Will Metaphor

is this one of those "Body Type A or Body Type B?" type games?

>>717867620
No.

>>717840183
GOTTEM

>>717851109
jap ttrpgs are either analog jrpgs, coc, or have single digits of players

got a link to that interview?

>>717847609
>The pacing is way better than anything in the Persona series
Not a very high bar

>>717866617
Soejima is washed up and recycling design elements

>>717a847609
>The pacing is way better than anything in the Persona series [a series known for 12hr+ cutscenes]
That's genuinely the only improvement, which is so fucking pathetic. I am genuinely ashamed at gamers for giving Metaphor Refantazio anything higher than an 82. Were we that delusional in 2024? I know people have a turn-based fetish, but this should not be the only metric for a JRPG.

>>717871953
>The pacing is way better than anything in the Persona series [a series known for 12hr+ cutscenes]
That's \the only improvement, which is so fucking pathetic. I am genuinely ashamed at gamers for giving Metaphor Refantazio anything higher than an 82. Were we that delusional in 2024? I know people have a turn-based fetish, but that should not be the only metric for a JRPG.

>>717872192
>Soejima is washed up and recycling design elements
While winning awards around the world I guess...

>>717840027 (OP)
I skipped this after the demo. Atlus needs new material. I’m not gonna buy the same game over and over.

>>717840027 (OP)
I would play it but can't get past the faggy protag and the elf with the square ass. I hope they don't make the Persona 6 protag even gayer.

>>717858676
Maybe if you're super optimizing the game with a guide or over leveling. Do it basically first opportunity on a first time playthrough on hard and tell me it's not tough.

>>717866962
it's a shitposters' thread that he keeps trying to bump out of desperation

>>717841862
>eight hours into the thread and he still hasn't explained what was wrong with the game
You love to se it.
Also a game can't be terrible with an antagonist this great. It's rare to have a video game were you root for the "villain"

>>717866617
This is what cool looks like to Japanese people sadly. Men with effeminate features. Meanwhile tall, muscular men with a buzz cut, which is what's cool in America, in Japan they think that shit is gay. They are literally the opposite of us.

Also just noticed if you zoom in and only look at the legs you would think is a woman. lmao

>>717872827
Of all the awards that Metaphor Refantazio won in 2024, this was the most insulting. The game has literal anime episodes that play in between scene transitions. Not model-based. Not pre-rendered. Just fucking anime. That basically guaranteed the tranime vote.

>>717866962
any thread that starts with a short setence saying some stupid shit like "this us awful" and the threads gets to bump limit is a bad faith thread. The only reason this one hasn't faded is because the schizo keep bumping it. this is what they do.

>>717872827
Still baffled by this when the in game environments look like they have ps1 textures while running like shit

i feel like theyre gonna release the enhanced version at some point and probably make the rabbit girl playable

>>717873751
The outfit designs are so genuinely off-putting. It's like sojima got high while watching fashion show while forgetting that those outfits are purposefully made to look to grab your attention and not in a good way

>>717840027 (OP)
now that the dust has settled, what was the metaphor?

>>717875082
The false idolized perfect world of a fantasy that is our reality.

>>717840696
My theory is that they had more planned but it got scrapped. The story really rushes to the finish by then, and you realize that most of the church villains are completely pointless and just fade away hoping you don't notice after Forden dies. Rella's conflict is also rushed then pushed out of the way ASAP.

>>717840027 (OP)
Atlus tards have the lowest standards of any demographic

>>717873089
The "optimizing" is pumping either offensive stat then killing everything with a physical team with Masquerade Charge. It's trivial to do and only a retard would need a guide to point out how busted it is.

>>717873751
>>717874581
You didn't play the game

>>717876279
You can literally just up the designs even if you didn't play the game

>>717876431
>admits it
yep, opinion discarded

>>717876473
I played the demo and was put off by the writing and ugly graphics. Why would I continue and pay for it?

indeed, it could have been a good game if there was romance and another region

Great game

>>717850234
i dont care, ill settle on cake if i have to
絶対に諦めないよ

>>717876203
Again, you're over leveled if you're winning in one turn. Also how exactly do you plan to kill the Trial Dragon that I'm talking about, that Repels literally fucking everything except Almighty with Phys when there is no skill that grants a Phys weakness that isn't already a Phys skill? You didn't actually play this game or you played on Normal.

>>717840027 (OP)
Honestly, the only part of the game that really stuck with me was the whole Moore reveal. That was peak.

>>717840027 (OP)
commie tranny game for niggers

Overall I enjoyed the game but the only thing that fucked me up was each character seemingly being on a different set of rules for their naming scheme.
Some use their last name as "main" when their first name is perfectly fine and applicable, some use their first names only etc.
I thought about this for the entire 80 hours i put into the game trying to rationalize what could have been the decisions from JP devs, EN devs and whoever else would be involved in those decisions.

>>717878373
Rampage Slash+Royal Sword+Masquerade Charge, just like all the others. It's baby shit.
What, do you have to be told that skills that ignore resistances are going to be strong?
lol