Metaphor ReFantazio vs. Persona 5: Better, worse, or more of the same?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Is this new PlayStation, Xbox and PC JRPG worth it?
Is Metaphor: ReFantazio riveting or really rather boring?
Is it as good as, better or worse than Persona 5 Royal?
Well, that's complicated...
Fortunately, we're here to help.
That 'Back Page Podcast' review (11 October '24):
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Where do you stand on Metaphor ReFantazio?
Podcast link mentioned: sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6249ec6c14fbed0013d3ce7e/e/67043096c88f09c3e00ae7b0/media.mp3
The game is different, the "confidants" or followers in this game are better in my opinion, this time around your choices don't make the ranks advance faster, so you can be true to yourself qhen choosing options and don't feel the need to be optimal
The combat mechanic are so much better and ask for much more strategy, you archetypes actually matter, your synthesis attacks are your strongest tools at the risk of wasting your turns if you don't exploit the right weaknesses
The row system is genius, if you're struggling in surviving you can go to the back row to take less damage at the price of doing less damage
Leveling up archetypes gives you access to more skills and more weaknesses to exploit, passing turns has actual value since it only consumes half an action
The real time combat does make a difference, half of the enemies in the first dungeon were defeated with the action combat for me, each time I entered a new floor enemies were strong enough to not be killed on field, but a couple of battles later and they started to go down in the action combat and I wasn't even overleveled, I was on par with what the game asked of me
Dungeons are also different, you have a much more aggressive approach, you don't have to hidr from enemies, there are much less puzzles to solve, it doesn't feel like a heist, it feels like a siege. Mementos are also substituted by a bunch of side dungeons that make the experience much more consistent, instead of a boring randomly generated dungeon you have multiple smaller dungeons with their own small puzzles and boss to fight at the end, it works quite well
Say what you will, but this game isn't persona and it isn't SMT, it takes good aspects of both games to create something unique, yes it has their dna, but it's very much its own thing
Ace comment, great detail. Thank you for the balance!
calling a game made by atlus a "p5 reskin" is insane... a LOT of the systems/battle mechanics in p5 can be found in older atlas titles
No one called SMT4/5 a Persona reskin, or Etrian Odyssey a Persona reskin, or Trauma Center a Persona reskin, or Radiata Historia a Persona reskin, or Catherine a Persona reskin and so on. Guess why they're calling these latest Atlus games Persona 5 reskins and other original titles were not? It has nothing to do with Atlus or a turn-based battle system based on exploting the enemy's weaknesses (very very similar to SMT's).
@@fiaschampion3379They call it a reskin cus its not a persona game yet feels like a persona game- but its not a persona game once you play it and not yapping it becomes Metaphore refantazio.
The social links, calendar system, turned based system is obviously will be similiar to previous titles but its there owm kitchen just let them cook with the ingredients what everybody loves from them.
@@fiaschampion3379 I get what you’re trying to say but you just named a bunch of games that released before Persona was even a relevant name.
My biggest complaint with Metaphor is everything feels like "instead of". Like instead of what we did in Persona 5, we did this!
A great way of putting it!
All true, i suppose im in the "adore all persona/smt" camp
Brilliant - always great to find series you love.
Great infos in the video, but dude work in the delivery, it sounds like you half fell asleep
Yeah I'm a bit under the weather but still managed to bash it out (as it were).
That said a lot of people say they like my languid delivery and find it more relaxing than the more shouty TH-camrs. It is what it is!
Thanks for watching.
great video!!
Thanks! Great comment 😍
I don't think it's boring tho. I do think Persona 5 is the better game early on tho
That's good. Would love to know if you still feel the same 40 hours in...
I'm early into it n yes it is just a reskin of P5
Reskin is a very narrow way to define the game and never heard anybody complaining that fromsoft making the same game always before.
Metaphore is a culmination of what Atlus did before not just persona but smt.
Saw the androgynous female companion and passed
What are you yapping about
U talking about Hurkenberg? Nothing androgynous about her mate
You should google her old design when the game had less Persona vibes and more Dragon Quest. She looked like this cool elf lady knight, it remains one of my favorite designs ever.
@@fiaschampion3379I didnt like it.