Atlus’ new fantasy-meets-Persona RPG launches in October

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Metaphor: ReFantazio is the inscrutable sanction for Atlus’ adjacent RPG project. The institution launched a caller trailer and a 30-minute video introducing players to the story, gameplay, and societal elements of the game, and astatine archetypal blush, it looks beauteous damn intriguing. Check retired the gameplay video below.

Metaphor: ReFantazio is an enactment RPG from Studio Zero, a caller interior workplace spun up successful 2016 and headed by Katsura Hashino. Atlus truly wants you to cognize the bona fides of the developers moving connected Metaphor. Hashino himself worked connected Shin Megami Tensei III, Persona 3, 4, and 5. The game’s mechanical decorator is Ikuto Yamashita, who helped plan the mechs successful Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Shoji Meguro, who did the euphony for the Persona series, has returned to enactment connected Metaphor. In 1 of the gameplay video’s funnier moments, it’s revealed that each the combat euphony is the effect of a magic spell that plays euphony successful the protagonist’s head.

The crippled combines real-time enactment combat with tactical turn-based gameplay. Weaker enemies you tin termination successful 1 stroke without the request to dilatory down the crippled with turn-based fighting. But for tougher opponents, you tin onslaught them to weaken them and summation the constituent of astonishment earlier calling successful your enactment members to decorativeness them disconnected successful turn-based combat. Based connected the video, it looks similar Atlus is remixing Persona-style combat with an enactment RPG twist that looks beauteous interesting.

Another constituent Atlus shared was the game’s societal activities. The gameplay video didn’t expressly authorities determination would beryllium nary accelerated question successful Metaphor; rather, the protagonist and unit volition get from spot to spot riding a conveyance consecutive retired of Howl’s Moving Castle. It was called the Gauntlet Runner, a ample RV-type contraption that uses immense legs to move. While you question to your adjacent destination, you tin usage the clip to get to cognize your enactment members, navigator stat-boosting food, oregon instrumentality a nap.

With Metaphor: ReFantazio, it surely seems Atlus has made another RPG hit, dripping with creator style. (Atlus’ paper crippled remains unmatched.) Better yet, Atlus has shared the game’s merchandise date: October 11th connected Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.