Metaphor: ReFantazio

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先说剧情，从龙宫后剧情水平急转直下，八大种族的前身竟是人类，但剧情后面却并没有把往更深刻的人性进行描写，甚至搞出了33号远征队那种可笑的打破第四面墙的现实论，给人一种极速赶工的感觉。感觉编剧已经抛弃这个设定了。 福登死得贼搞笑，而路易稍微有点塑造，但也是莫名其妙，比如为什么拿到龙枪还要结束锁链，那时候他不是无敌了，直接全杀光就好了，看不懂。福登和一群有立绘的教会人员也没故事，极速赶工。 还有一点，jrpg的编剧写到后面伙伴一起治理国家会不会想笑。在现实里和一群盟友推翻旧政权，没有中心权威的情况就会像远哭6的结局，军阀割据，战火重燃，也就jrpg会这么写 不是说路易的做法更好，但主角确实没啥新做法，跟教科书的爱与正义一样，最后也没尽职国王的责任，还是到处旅行。 游戏上比起p3r更像p5r，迷宫稍微没那么无聊，角色成长也更容易（因为p3r的武器都要买，很麻烦），战斗要素有点像隔壁的真女5，而怪物的数值也向真女5靠拢，最终boss打得有点累（至少比p系列那种剧情杀累），一刀砍不死基本结束，挺糟糕的。 人物塑造上不用局限于高中生的身份，所以能写出一些有意思的剧本杀，比如灰雨，男二和小丑（忘了叫啥）的剧情都挺有意思的。但人物立绘都很难评价。 最后一个月的体验简直是灾难，一共就六月，最后一个月还没内容。就一些悬赏，爬塔和拉五维。那悬赏前几天没刷新，我在塔对着高我10级的小兵刷了几个小时，才勉强打掉一条龙，后面做悬赏就砍瓜切菜，没什么游戏体验。这龙的隐藏支线就是学的真女5的人修罗，全是数值和机制。 最后一个月剧情差，内容空，很难想象后期被删了多少。

Metaphor: Refantazio is one of the best atlus games I’ve ever played, I only originally picked it up because I thought it would be similar to persona 5 but I ended up liking it multitudes times more Unlike the persona series it feels like you actually have to plan out your combat The archetype system feels so much better then fusing personas since it allows you to develop in the way you like instead of fusing two personas and getting a persona that has completely different abilities (except the ones you can inherit from the two you made tk fuse it) Developing bonds feels a lot more fun since you don’t have to worry about getting the “correct” awnser and missing out on time slots since you screwed up a dialogue The characters have a lot better designs too (in my opinion than in persona) The only issues I have is Once you get to the late game it can become a bit easy with all the recources you get to give yourself extra turns, which in some combats can feel necessary And also I feel like a lot more of the game could’ve had voice acting since in the only bonds there are voice acting is in the final rank of the bond I have a lot more to say about the game but this is all I feel like writing :p

While some parts of the worldbuilding are interesting. The character, the interactions, and the events that take place as just so lacking and written so poorly that it's hard to recommend this game.

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A good enough Atlus RPG, but too close to Persona for its own good Metaphor ReFantazio as the first full-fledged RPG from Atlus sub-studio Studio Zero feels a bit too safe. Every other RPG series has either stood on its own from the beginning, or been honest about being a sub-series (looking at early Persona). An Etrian Odyssey, Persona and SMT game stripped of any sort of setting or unique style would still feel drastically different from each other. Do the same to Metaphor, and it would feel like a "social-link/calendar" era Persona game with some things altered. What sets it apart from persona also doesn't feel interesting either. Instead of the protagonist being a blank slate, and all other party-members having obvious strengths, weaknesses and elemental associations, everyone gets to be a blank slate that can more or less assume any role with at least fair proficiency, doubly so since you can swap around some skills you've learned with other classes (here called archetypes). More than ever can you just pick your favourites and let the other party members sit out the entire game. The calendar and social aspects are also mostly for the worse. Fewer interactions and fewer bonds makes the cast feel very small and underexplored, and the lack of things to do in the calendar system makes the daily grind rather uninteresting. The setting similarly feels unrealised. For how invested we are supposed to be in the world, we get really little of it (even if that was on purpose). Atlus isn't that good at creating a larger world, their RPGs usually excel at smaller-scale settings and when they are free to go through something written by Jung or Crowley nicking names and vague outlines of concepts, so I can't be that annoyed when their first attempt at a fantasy world bigger than a few menus doesn't hold up, but I also can't just say that it's fine. THAT BEING SAID, it's still a fairly good Atlus RPG, which puts it high on the totem pole of JRPGs. Another interesting wrinkle to this is that long-time director of the Persona series Katsura Hashino, who went on to be the director of Metaphor, stated that he went on to create Studio Zero "due to a shift in creative direction with Persona 5", so maybe we'll in ten years time look back at Metaphor with more appreciation, as this was the continuation of that style of game, whereas Persona goes on to do something else.

GREAT GAME

O melhor jogo disparado da minha biblioteca.

good game c: