Thank you for showcasing Metaphor: ReFantazio, the new RPG from Atlus, the team behind Persona 3, 4, and 5! I feel well-informed about this game and influenced to make a purchase decision thanks to this video!
Yes, thank you, Woolie, for showcasing this product I was unaware of up until this point! This video has surely influenced my decision to purchase Metaphor: ReFantazio!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO Every time Woolie is sponsored, it's for a game I want a full LP of, and he just does a few episodes. Add this to the pile with RE4 remake, SMTVengeance, and P3Reload.
I love how when anyone advertises this game no one mentions the fact that they have people that *also* worked on mainline and spinoff SMT. All the way back to Shin Megami Tensei If... Hashino has worked on If, Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, Soul Hackers 1, Raidou 1. The DNA of those games are absolutely everywhere in Metaphor.
How do you expect people who never played or even saw some of those games would know? But yeah. Hitting stuff in the overworld feels like Raidou swinging his sword, Press Turn is mainline staple, Calendar and Social Links from Persona, Archetypes are a bit like Demon Forms from DDS. It's quite literally "what if we made a game with all the good ideas we had over the years?"
@BNik92 Didn't mean to sound passive aggressive or anything, I'm just genuinely shocked that even people who are in the know and have played SMT just call it "a different take on Persona". Just haven't seen alot of people talk about it. Maybe I should make a video about it. 🤔
@@populatethemoon Don't. A lot of people have talked about it. Enough for people to be annoyed at people saying "Um, actually it's not a persona game." The comments in Eyepatch Wolf's vod of the demo was full of it to the point it became a problem.
9:50 Finally. Maybe we can for once not have these awkward, immersion breaking conversations where the other person has to carry both sides of the conversation. Silent (or rather wordless) protagonists don't work in conversation heavy games, unless you really do get full sentence responses very regular aswell to actually make them normal conversations again, like in Disco Elysium or Dragon Age: Origins.
@Serahpin Esperanto is a conlang, a language engineered by humans. It has very few native speakers, but is one of, if not the most successful, conlangs around. It was designed to act as a bridge to bring together different communities in a rather divided late 1800's Polish border town where many people of multiple different nationalities would rub shoulders. By using very simple and consistent rules with no exceptions and using root words from various other European languages from surrounding areas, it was intended to be a very easy to pick up language. The fantasy inherent to the language was of a united city and population. Some may have even fantasized about mass adoption globally. It's creator sure did.
dangit i thought i didn't like fantasy stuff OR SMT... this game is gorgeous, sounds amazing, and made me buy P5 on sale. (i'm GETTING this when it's cheap!)
A month already stacked with Dragon Ball Z, Silent Hill 2 and Black Ops 6, Metaphor Refantazio is throwing hands with Shadow the Hedgehog lurking in the back.
22:25 "No. Luck is a stat." - Haughty Captain. 24:05 Watersday aka Wetsday. 50:45 Ah, nice fakeout of not giving him to you as a full party member to make you more likely to think he died by having the doesn't-join-the-party death flag on him.
I've been sitting on the demo for this for a week or so now, and this opening cutscene alone is enough to make me finally actually interested. I always liked Persona 4, but no matter how many times I've tried, I can't seem to commit to 5 Royal. Once you get into the creepy coach's dungeon proper (when you come back after busting out the first time), idk, I always seem to drift away and go back to games of my preffered style: active, fully controlled combat. The only turn-based RPGs to ever truly captivate me were Persona 4 Golden, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and a good bit of Yakuza 7 which I also drifted away from and need to finish. I can get into turn-based RPGs, especially if the gameplay is particularly unique and engaging like those games, but even then, my raging ADHD just gets bored and finds excuses to only play a little at a time, never truly digging in. Three Houses was actually the one I got deepest into and the most obsessed with the little details, mostly because the combat was not the typical JRPG "party lined-up and stationary, except for when they attack" battle style.
Is there a way I can watch the original stream? I looked on Twitch, but I couldn't find it. This video seems to have a lot of aggressive cuts in it and sometimes entire conversations are basically missing
@@SoushinSen That's interesting I guess the deal must have been significantly different than the deal Pat got then since he seemed to just stream it normally no problem
i actually dont mind the skips. probably shoulda said it somewhere in the video, but coming from twitch, i think its smart to cut some stuff out to get more in the video. im also only mildly interested in the game so i appreciate only getting the best bits
Fake spoilers: I'm calling it now. The story is a metaphor for an irl corporation to replace their ceo with a child of the ceo while exposing a crime that would end the author, but instead the mc is the childhood hommie of that ceo's kid, to rule over every irl japanese location in video games. IM CALLING IT!
i dont know why racism in a JRPG is suddenly a novel concept again when it's been occurring as a major theme for so long in so many titles that it's considered boring and trite cliche.
I've tried P5, SMT5 and going backwards from there would feel kind of painful. I couldn't get into the hardcore game over screens of SMT5, I only got halfway through P5 before I ran out of steam. This game feels above and beyond what Atlus has done with their other games. The story they're going for seems pretty strong, the multi-media aesthetic is working, but the gameplay innovations are really doing it for me. There's just enough bite to what your enemies can do to you if you make a mistake, grinding for things feels fast and fun. It's got it's hooks in me.
I can't tell how much of this is sponsored shilling and how much is genuine hype, I feel like it's like 60% hype and then a 40% thick layer of shilling on top, creating a weird vibe. EDIT: weird, it feels like there are segments cut out, to the VOD I go I guess
woolie and pat have been joking around about the sponsorship on CSB, but they both genuinely seem to really love and be interested in it even before woolie recorded this, when pat was explaining the game's systems and themes and whatnot to him, he seemed pretty invested. also both of them just like atlus games in general- theyve been hyping up megaten and persona long before atlus ever partnered with them- so i dont think hes being pushed that hard to give a positive review of things edit: also yeah, there is no VOD
- Horrible name - Lame protagonist (would I vote him to be King? No) - Meh characters (for awhile) - Grius is pretty weak for a "mentor" character (Will could beat him up) - Standard combat / inventory management - Persona roots to a ridiculous degree that didn't need to be there I'm enjoying the game 8 hours in but it's not perfect for sure. The banger soundtrack and sword skateboarding is keeping me in the game.
I'm so glad I changed both the voice and display languages. Everything about this game in English is just so... wrong I'd go insane trying to explain it. Thankfully the French version got it right this time.
![Metaphor ReFantazio [Told by Geese]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dc0IegLdpCQ/mqdefault.jpg)
>Pat mentions a game having racism on the podcast
>Woolie begins playing it within a week
Like clockwork.
Woolie has a refined, patrician taste when it comes to media racism.
He must sample all dishes.
Woolie really likes his racism.
no no, you got it wrong, the Racism reached out to Woolz and gave him money to play it within the week. It's a symbiotic relationship here
*money
Do you think Woolie would like Rogue Trader?
I want the camera to point upwards towards the sky to show a semi-transparent Wakka smiling.
'I'm just sayin Bruddah, them Elda..'
They have a mount rushmore but just for Wakka
Racism Bruddah Yah
He is the patron saint of prejudice.
Replace the giant stone face in the sky with Wakka and the game is infinitely better
"I'm Just Saying Bruddah, Maybe theres a good reason that Elda's home was burned down"
Grand Wizard Wakka will never die 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Like happy festival fireworks, ya?"
*BLEETZBOL... Pass da ganja...* XD
💀💀💀
Truly the GOAT of bits.
Reggie's eyes visibly grow 20% larger once Brigitta appears on screen.
I genuinely can’t tell what is making Woolie smile more, all the cool sick shit in the game or the racism.
Woolie likes cool stuff in games, but he _loves_ racism.
@@Serahpinthe best games tend to come with conflicts like racism, NPCs cooking with Grand Wizard Wakka energy
Biblically Accurate Humans is banger title ngl
Tru. Got the Biblically Accurate Homo Sapiens
The Fantazio got me speakin' Esperanto.
this blunt was rolled by the heroes of old
We smoking that shit that had the Demi-Fiend going on cute dates
Woolie hasn't even seen the real pause menu in this game yet.
Unlockable Menus.
You have to work and play the game and progress to unlock the REAL Pause Menu.
Thank you for showcasing Metaphor: ReFantazio, the new RPG from Atlus, the team behind Persona 3, 4, and 5! I feel well-informed about this game and influenced to make a purchase decision thanks to this video!
Yeah!
Yes, thank you, Woolie, for showcasing this product I was unaware of up until this point! This video has surely influenced my decision to purchase Metaphor: ReFantazio!
But is it on Xbox?
@@bej4987 yes.
Is this how they are checking return on investment now?
9:57 "We're people!" - From what I've heard most of the other characters in the game might not agree with that
One of them literally says "you're not a person". Atlus honestly nailed racism as a feature
I live for Reggie’s constant wide-eyed faces
26:41 Reg I got bad news; MC’s race isn’t even on the tier list
With Louis, I'm so glad they aren't even playing, he's Lucifer. He's so Lucifer they're not even bothering to make his name Louis Cypher.
"Lemme just change my last name, no one will notice."
This is the most Char-ass motherfucker I've ever seen. All he needs is a mask.
He legally changed his last name to Goodguy
"say it wit yo chest" the game
The hard A
I can only guess how much joy woolie might derive from this game
Hope he saw the real pause menu she’s a beauty. Pretty sure if he would’ve hit menu instead of the save shortcut at the end he would’ve seen it 😭😭
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Every time Woolie is sponsored, it's for a game I want a full LP of, and he just does a few episodes.
Add this to the pile with RE4 remake, SMTVengeance, and P3Reload.
He'd be playing this game for two years
I love how when anyone advertises this game no one mentions the fact that they have people that *also* worked on mainline and spinoff SMT. All the way back to Shin Megami Tensei If...
Hashino has worked on If, Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, Soul Hackers 1, Raidou 1. The DNA of those games are absolutely everywhere in Metaphor.
How do you expect people who never played or even saw some of those games would know?
But yeah. Hitting stuff in the overworld feels like Raidou swinging his sword, Press Turn is mainline staple, Calendar and Social Links from Persona, Archetypes are a bit like Demon Forms from DDS. It's quite literally "what if we made a game with all the good ideas we had over the years?"
@BNik92 Didn't mean to sound passive aggressive or anything, I'm just genuinely shocked that even people who are in the know and have played SMT just call it "a different take on Persona". Just haven't seen alot of people talk about it. Maybe I should make a video about it. 🤔
One of the classes is literally called Soul Hacker lol.
@@populatethemoon Don't. A lot of people have talked about it. Enough for people to be annoyed at people saying "Um, actually it's not a persona game." The comments in Eyepatch Wolf's vod of the demo was full of it to the point it became a problem.
people say its a persona game cause its literally just a persona game in nearly every way mechanically.
Aw man I hope Woolie picks this back with Reggie on stream when they have a slot available. This game just hits sooooo hard!
Same but chances are low just based on the previous sponsored streams
Dumb of him not to tbh
9:50 Finally. Maybe we can for once not have these awkward, immersion breaking conversations where the other person has to carry both sides of the conversation.
Silent (or rather wordless) protagonists don't work in conversation heavy games, unless you really do get full sentence responses very regular aswell to actually make them normal conversations again, like in Disco Elysium or Dragon Age: Origins.
Welcome to Bibically accurate social issues: The Atlus RPG.
That's every game they make
@@Foogi9000 but now it's a High Fantasy setting.
@@Dracobyte We went from High School to High Fantasy. Which i genuinely prefer to the Modern setting of Persona. You can do so much more with Fantasy.
WE'RE STOPPING THE ECLIPSE WITH THIS ONE!
Bruh why'd you remind me.
I can’t wait for him to experience the UI leveling up as the game progresses
Also on Playstation just in case anyone was wondering
And Xbox!
@@Dracobyte so much Xbox!
Dammit, Woolie dodged the REAL pause menu.
GET THAT SEGA BAG
The only reason I’m not watching this is because I want to play it for myself.
And then I’m gonna come back. This, I promise.
I love that the choir is in Esperanto. It really adds to the fantasy tone.
Earth language. Fantasy.
@Serahpin
Esperanto is a conlang, a language engineered by humans. It has very few native speakers, but is one of, if not the most successful, conlangs around. It was designed to act as a bridge to bring together different communities in a rather divided late 1800's Polish border town where many people of multiple different nationalities would rub shoulders.
By using very simple and consistent rules with no exceptions and using root words from various other European languages from surrounding areas, it was intended to be a very easy to pick up language.
The fantasy inherent to the language was of a united city and population. Some may have even fantasized about mass adoption globally. It's creator sure did.
@@SophiaSanders61 Earth language. Fantasy.
The critically acclaimed series Persona starts at 3, so of course they start their new IP at Phor.
Atlus said no more highschool, it's time for berserk and racism
I think a huge demo is a sign that the creators of the product know they made something great👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Woolie's favorite Archetype: *GRAND WIZARD*
the war starts.... fairy best girl
Nonono, you're right (post 1st dungeon)
Love to see a full playthrough of this.
Woolie talking up the temporary UI lmao
wait wdym temporary
He's like a half hour away from unlocking the real stylish pause menus that you would expect from Atlus
@@TheLemuroid I missed that in the demo....
@@melynxforce8918 It might honestly happen once you get your first party member. Did you just not change your gear or something?
@@qrowing I didnt get too far into it, since the demo said some things may change in the full game
10:20 Unfortunately, that isn't the real menu yet
Oh man, Woolie's awkardly fake hype yet disappointed reaction to the not-so-stylish first menu made me cringe a little.
I would've loved to see Woolie react to the actual menu design once you unlock it
16 hours deep so far. game is gonna be one of them ones, pure fire
Proving once again that subtlety is for cowards.
*SAY IT WITH YOUR CHEST*
Those sand-blasted grease monkeys!
We can only hope someone mods in Grand Wizard Wakka into the game.
Woolie made me buy this game. give him and Reggie more sponsors so I can be influenced more
oh man, there's so many moments i'd like to see Woolie and Reggie react to, but i'm sure they have their hands full
Damn, they're really metaphoring all over the place
Okay, I genuinely have to say that the canonical music is fucking cool
Thank you for playing this woolie I have bought this amazing game
dangit i thought i didn't like fantasy stuff OR SMT... this game is gorgeous, sounds amazing, and made me buy P5 on sale. (i'm GETTING this when it's cheap!)
I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.
The game is literally called Metaphor, though. A metaphor, by definition, requires subtext.
A month already stacked with Dragon Ball Z, Silent Hill 2 and Black Ops 6, Metaphor Refantazio is throwing hands with Shadow the Hedgehog lurking in the back.
Just saying wind like talim in my head everytime
Hope it becomes a full series 🙏
This video convinced me to buy this game immediately, and I haven’t played full price for a new game in a few years.
Now this is a Caste Super Beast title proper
:3
Gee, Reggie, what's YOUR favorite thing about Metaphor: ReFantazio by Sega™ Atlus™ available now on Windows and XBox?
Wow, it's like when Woolie's videos are edited, they're somewhat watchable.
Really looking forward to this LP
Damn that intro was smooth
WOO ANIME RACISM
When he ask for a skill it is just the indicator for base stats so your luck is the highest of your stats
I hope Racism: the Game gets a full LP sometime. It deserves it.
Woolie and Will will figure it out, feat. Reggie
22:25 "No. Luck is a stat." - Haughty Captain.
24:05 Watersday aka Wetsday.
50:45 Ah, nice fakeout of not giving him to you as a full party member to make you more likely to think he died by having the doesn't-join-the-party death flag on him.
It's at the very end of the demo, but I do hope woolie finds the racist child.
Can we get more of this? Please Woolie?
please make this a full playthrough!
I give it a meta4 out of meta5. Everyone's a metacritic and every metacritic has it's metamorphosis
-Lyle Rath
... Does anyone remember that Persona 5 Tactica was a thing? Felt like it just came out, and that was it.
I played through it back in January. It was......ok, just ok. Liked the gameplay, but ultimately underwhelming compared to other persona spinoffs
Definitely their weakest spin off but it wasn't bad by any means
The less anything related to P5 is remembered, the better.
I recall thinking it was pretty good.
@@CaffeinatedKing Cap, P5R and P5S are peak, P5X is looking good but yeah P5T and P5D are just aight. I will not accept P5 slander
Biblically accurate Esperonto
I really hope they finish this one
I've been sitting on the demo for this for a week or so now, and this opening cutscene alone is enough to make me finally actually interested. I always liked Persona 4, but no matter how many times I've tried, I can't seem to commit to 5 Royal. Once you get into the creepy coach's dungeon proper (when you come back after busting out the first time), idk, I always seem to drift away and go back to games of my preffered style: active, fully controlled combat. The only turn-based RPGs to ever truly captivate me were Persona 4 Golden, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and a good bit of Yakuza 7 which I also drifted away from and need to finish. I can get into turn-based RPGs, especially if the gameplay is particularly unique and engaging like those games, but even then, my raging ADHD just gets bored and finds excuses to only play a little at a time, never truly digging in. Three Houses was actually the one I got deepest into and the most obsessed with the little details, mostly because the combat was not the typical JRPG "party lined-up and stationary, except for when they attack" battle style.
i refused the fairies help
I wasn't interested in this guy, but than I saw that there's astounding amounts of furry bait. So, what can I do? I see catboy, I buy catboy.
Is there a way I can watch the original stream? I looked on Twitch, but I couldn't find it. This video seems to have a lot of aggressive cuts in it and sometimes entire conversations are basically missing
This was not a stream, it's a TH-cam exclusive video. The sponsors demanded that the recorded footage must be cut short to under a hour.
@@SoushinSen That's interesting I guess the deal must have been significantly different than the deal Pat got then since he seemed to just stream it normally no problem
Play Silent Hill 2 Remake, so good
Maybe this are "hooman". And they drop normal loot.
Not sure if due to being tired the usual misread, but I misread the title as Basically Accurate Humans
i actually dont mind the skips. probably shoulda said it somewhere in the video, but coming from twitch, i think its smart to cut some stuff out to get more in the video. im also only mildly interested in the game so i appreciate only getting the best bits
This was not streamed on Twitch, it's a TH-cam-exclusive video.
Of course he's a good
Woolie would rather do full LPs for games that no one cares about than Refantazio
Cutting so much of the gameplay feels weird, but I suppose this is a sponsored one-off and not a normal video.
Hype and hype.
Why are there odd skips in the video tho
I just noticed a few different times it skips like
What would be 5 or 10 minutes of game?
Edited for spoilers I assume.
They skipped some tutorial prompts, talking with the "JRPG first town NPCs", and the tutorial dungeon. Probably cut it to keep this as 1 video.
It's also available on PS5. (:
Tbh I thought the title would be biblically accurate racism but that works too lol.
this video is not long enough to even get *to* the tutorial.
Yippee:D
Wonder why woolie didn't mention it's also on ps5
Because it's a Microsoft sponsorship.
Whats the deal with all these skip cuts smh.
Fake spoilers:
I'm calling it now.
The story is a metaphor for an irl corporation to replace their ceo with a child of the ceo while exposing a crime that would end the author, but instead the mc is the childhood hommie of that ceo's kid, to rule over every irl japanese location in video games.
IM CALLING IT!
i dont know why racism in a JRPG is suddenly a novel concept again when it's been occurring as a major theme for so long in so many titles that it's considered boring and trite cliche.
oh man that console aliasing is a lot
I will buy this game because of woolie and reggie
I've tried P5, SMT5 and going backwards from there would feel kind of painful. I couldn't get into the hardcore game over screens of SMT5, I only got halfway through P5 before I ran out of steam. This game feels above and beyond what Atlus has done with their other games. The story they're going for seems pretty strong, the multi-media aesthetic is working, but the gameplay innovations are really doing it for me. There's just enough bite to what your enemies can do to you if you make a mistake, grinding for things feels fast and fun. It's got it's hooks in me.
Full LP maybe?
What resolution is he playing this at? It's on PC? It looks awful!
Hrm. Can't say I'm a fan of this video just skipping constantly. Guess I'll go back to Pat's videos on this instead.
I can't tell how much of this is sponsored shilling and how much is genuine hype, I feel like it's like 60% hype and then a 40% thick layer of shilling on top, creating a weird vibe.
EDIT: weird, it feels like there are segments cut out, to the VOD I go I guess
There is no VOD.
woolie and pat have been joking around about the sponsorship on CSB, but they both genuinely seem to really love and be interested in it
even before woolie recorded this, when pat was explaining the game's systems and themes and whatnot to him, he seemed pretty invested. also both of them just like atlus games in general- theyve been hyping up megaten and persona long before atlus ever partnered with them- so i dont think hes being pushed that hard to give a positive review of things
edit: also yeah, there is no VOD
Literally stabs a guy to death, i.e. murder.
"Morally dubious/grey"
Bruh
I feel like I should be excited for this game given the general feedback but idk man, it's just not pushing the buttons, I can't say why
Probably the fantasy esthetic right? It’s not for everyone.
probably cause of the lingering aftertaste by wokalism
- Horrible name
- Lame protagonist (would I vote him to be King? No)
- Meh characters (for awhile)
- Grius is pretty weak for a "mentor" character (Will could beat him up)
- Standard combat / inventory management
- Persona roots to a ridiculous degree that didn't need to be there
I'm enjoying the game 8 hours in but it's not perfect for sure. The banger soundtrack and sword skateboarding is keeping me in the game.
I'm so glad I changed both the voice and display languages. Everything about this game in English is just so... wrong I'd go insane trying to explain it. Thankfully the French version got it right this time.
I heard the localizers did a lot to make sure it fit the West.