Thread 718345801

Metaphor is an underrated masterpiece.

>>718345801 (OP)
It's good, but has problems.
MP regeneration is dog shit, with the only early strategy being to switch the MC to mage to gain 1 MP per character for each attack made on an enemy in the over world.
Some of the higher tier class requirements don't make sense, like Royal Assassin has a bunch of high tier prerequisites, way more than any other (except the MC but that doesn't really count).
The major plot twist is spoiled by any later game footage of the main character.
Traveling is sometimes really lame, like to the dragon tower you have an earlier quest to go to that days several game days to travel to, only to find out you need to go there again later and finish off the tower to fight the dragon on top for amazing gear, once again having to make that multi-day trip.
The last character to join your party comes so late they get no development.
They also set up the magic school to be a cool place, then you just have a fight outside of it without ever going inside in the last act.

>>718345801 (OP)
>no Switch 2 version
lame

mogged by rebirth and e33

>>718345801 (OP)
I like it but I really don't like the Archetype system, which is a pretty big deal.

>>718346512
The magic school bit definitely felt like cut content to me. It was probably supposed to be a proper dungeon with a "x days until" like the rest of the game but they ran out of time or whatever so just cut straight to the boss. That entire section with the bird lady in general felt super rushed, she changes character like 3 times in the course of about an hour of playtime which is super jarring

>>718347586
The royal archetypes requiring specific pre requisite one is really dumb as it defeats the whole purpose of having a job system in the first place when then characters are encouraged to follow a specific progression path

>>718347230
Stop SMT shill, we know that FF fans would never do t... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Catherina should have been the canon love interest. What better way to show you are trying to get rid of the old ways than having a member of the lowest caste be your queen?

>>718345801 (OP)
It kinda sucked actually

>>718345801 (OP)
This fucking sucks actually

>>718345801 (OP)
Its mediocre, more like. I cant think of anything it did great or stand out.

>>718345801 (OP)
My jeet wife

>>718347230
>hey, our games subvert typical fantasy tropes by being set in contemporary settings. Lets make a generic fantasy game.
20 hours into Metaphor and I really don't know if I'll be able to make it through. The reviews for this game were way too generous.

>>718345801 (OP)
Outstanding combat but i just can't stand the music and the generic setting.
If i'm going to be stuck in a game world for 100 hours i need those things to be good.

Plus the writing is insulting, i'm not a kid, i don't need basic themes explained to me by a fairy sidekick 35 fucking times.
Inb4 "but this game is aimed at younger people"..... why is it full of high concept politics and philosophy then? what 12 year old is going to find that interesting in the slightest?

>>718348714
>Jeet

She's a pacific islander. Technically every character in the game is.

>>718345801 (OP)
The game should be 10 hours longer.

THIS IS A FUCKING 9TH GEN GAME, WHY IS EVERY AREA A CITY BLOCK!? Actually I just looked it up and this released on PS4. Even that piece of shit hardware should've been able to handle bigger areas, and I'm surprised it only sold 2 million units when PS4 still has a decent install base in Japan. That Microsoft marketing must've hurt in the long run.

>>718350576
>t. tendie jeet seething

>>718350576
I'm more of a classic Snoy, desu.

Feels like a game that could have been released 20 years ago and not stood out in any way.

I found it boring as fuck played it for an hour and tapped out.

ITT:

Basilio's awakening was the only scene that made me feel something otherwise this is probably the worst written atlus game with how derivitive and utterly lacking in identity it is

>>718345801 (OP)
The fact that Refantazio got higher than an 82 is proof there's a huge tranime conspiracy racket in the JRPG market. Atlus has set the bar low for the last decade and their audience has developed Stockholm syndrome. In any case, I'm just glad E33 came out. It woke a lot people up and something tells me that Atlus isn't gonna get a free pass for Persona 6.

>>718351827
Zoomers are going to be too old for p6 and millennials are too geriatric
Also gacha is more popular than ever

>>718351817
are you me? all the awakenings felt so forced
basilio, ironically, was the only one that i felt was earned.

>>718351817
>awakening
Every single fucking "awakening" moment in Refantazio was pure and utter cringe, lol. To me, this is the best kept secret of the game.

TL;DR. After every character in Refantazio joins your crew, they hallucinate an over-indulgent monologue where they rip out their hearts (for some reason) and proceed to give a speech to an imaginary audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRwuVcZ7YKw

>>718345801 (OP)
>underrated
>has one of the highest metascores in the last 10 years

>>718345801 (OP)
haven't played it yet because I was waiting for the complete edition Fatlus always does for their games but it seem they forgot about this one. Where's the Ultimate Golden Royal ReVengeance Edition? They never take this long to release the complete and improved version.

>>718351584
Hello tendie

>dude, what's edgier than putting a gun to your head to summon a punching ghost?
>what about ripping your heart out to summon a punching ghost?
>BRILLIANT!
I would've enjoyed this game 20 times more if archetypes came with wardrobe changes. Final Fantasy X-2 was built on FFX assets and unironically looks like a more expensive game with more thought put into it.

It's an overrated decent game.
It's just a spin-off of Persona that somehow was more shallow than Persona 5

>>718353070
>>718353126
Damn, tendies falseflaggers are really desperate

A solid 7/10

>>718352283
Agreed, it was such a letdown coming from P5's awakenings

I liked it a lot and think it's overrated. Archetype system was flawed as previously mentioned, story started off very strong but kinda lost the plot near the end, villain turned out to be pretty boring. 8/10

Game needed like 10 more battle themes there was only fucking 3 or 4

>>718345801 (OP)
I agree, it deserved GOTY and Best Music.

>>718353201
I fucking hate Nintendo and am very loyal to Sony.
Hell, I own 4 different PS VIta

Metaphor didn't live up to my expectations

>>718353572
Unfortunately we won't fall for it anymore, tendie.

>>718353201
What do you have to gain from posting like this?

>>718353793
Anon is prolly referencing this thread >>718326604

>>718353201
OP has been doing this spiel for awhile now. Make a shitposting thread against FF, then move onto the next JRPG that isnt on the Switch. And the thread always starts with the most generic game cover you can find. If the thread doesnt take off, he simply bumps the thread as long as it takes.

>>718345801 (OP)
I found it too grindy. I also felt like having a unique role for each character was ultimately pointless since each character has an obvious best royal archetype that they can become which takes away the whole point of the archetype thing. Sure you can just make them anything you want anyways, but why bother when their royal archetype is obviously the best and most efficient choice? It's like choosing to be purposely retarded, of course you're gonna go with the stronger option.

I think the bond system just needs to be removed entirely. I feel like it doesn't do the game any favors and there's very little satisfying character development. It just feels like everybody's problems are resolved on a whim which is the same deal as with Persona.

I appreciate that the villain remained an asshole until the very end, and I also liked the story, surprisingly. I could tell what the twist was ahead of time and still found it enjoyable. I also enjoyed the aspect of telling your dad to go fuck himself and his fake reality, which is a really cool way to show from both a player perspective and an in-universe perspective the love of fiction and that none of it was pointless. It's fucking cheesy and I loved it. I thought the realistic approach to getting your perfect happy civilization was good too. The game tells you multiple times that there's no such thing as this perfect world where everyone gets along, and if you want something close to it, there needs to be actual effort involved, and even then it won't be anywhere close to perfect. For a game that mostly comes across as safe, I did enjoy that the game was avoiding sugarcoating the topic.

The music was all boring. Strohl and Basilio are the best characters and it's not even close.

>>718345801 (OP)
It's far from a masterpiece. It's a badly paced story with very preachy writing that completely lacks subtlety and nuance and hilariously formulaic "social links" that nearly all feel extremely superficial and rushed due to having to fit the same 8 cutscene template.
It's quite sad because they finally had the chance to do something actually new with this game but then it turned out to be this lazy ass amalgamation of SMT/Persona mechanics where Louis was pretty much its only saving grace.

>>718347808
All the advanced archetypes are like that. Besides, it's not a job system. Character stats stay mostly the same and have specific strengths you should build towards.

dogshit, clair obscure rapes it

>>718355208
bonjour monsieur

This was the most overrated gave I've ever played. Coming to it off the Romancing SaGa 2 Remake was such a massive disappointment. The characters are all bland and boring. The story just repeats the same shit over and over. Racism is bad, I got it the last 12 fucking times. Then they introduce a ton of side content for you to do, BUT WAIT, you cant do it until AFTER the next 4 hours of story focuses content. Then right as your get towards the end of that story arc, now youre allowed to slam on the breaks and do all the shit you wanted to do 4 hours ago. Combat depth felt barely a step up from normal bare bones turn based combat. I dont get what people like about this game at all, and I'm so sad this mediocrity completely overshadowed how fantastic the Romancing SaGa 2 remake was.

>>718353984
They are now pushing exp33 against bg3
Of course the fire emblem generals get spared

>>718356249
>Racism is bad, I got it the last 12 fucking times
thats not true man
it also has ANXIETY over and over again

Imagine...

go back to /meta/

>>718353572
game?

>>718356968
Looks like Atelier Totori.

>>718354583
>>718354783
>>718355208
>>718356249
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>>718356690
>all these tendie COPE

>>718345801 (OP)
Created some weird anti-FF schizos, so it may be great but I don't care for it.

>Mfw Phase 2 final boss when the Akamedia motif hits.
Honestly this was my favorite final battle Atlus has done since Nyx.

>>718360065
I thought it was boring. He went down in two turns.