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Metaphor: ReFantazio (11th October 2024)

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Demo is up people!

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Your journey begins NOW! Play the Prologue Demo on [literally every major platform]. 

Saved data will convert over to the full game upon release on October 11th.

Think I'll wait, with how long this game has been touted as being I think I might hold out until I'm off over Christmas. 

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57 minutes ago, drahkon said:

I mean, just listen to it :cool: An instant classic! 

It really is, I've popped on some of the tracks people have pulled from trailers between various rewatches of them (because I love a good trailer) and as someone who looooooooooves me some epic orchestras and vocals, this game's OST has it in spadefuls. 

Look, I know we knew Shoji Meguro was talented as hell from his other OSTs - I pop the Persona 5 soundtrack on in the background in my apartment at least twice a month - but it's crazy that he's gone from THAT to THIS. Like, seriously, it's such an extreme switch up in genres it's insane. It's like being one of the best snooker players in the world and then deciding to take up ice skating. 

Damn it I'm trying to be sensible and wait for this to be my Christmas game while I'm off work for a few weeks with how endless it seems to be but also I DON'T WANT TO WAIT AT ALL :laughing:

57 minutes ago, drahkon said:

Crazy that this is just two weeks away.

Don't get me started – I remember this got announced the year I joined the forums, which was, uh, over 8 years ago now. Where the hell has the time gone? 

Project Re Fantasy was a silly project title then, but somehow Metaphor ReFantazio...is kind of incredibly epic as a title? If still a little silly :p there was that IGN First video with the cool concept art (still a bit letdown she didn't become our protag but whatever). There was also that time they released that really weird, high concept trailer with concept art, random people standing around in fantasy costumes and that guy in a set of armour. 

Is this game's entire existence a metaphor..? :p

57 minutes ago, drahkon said:

These last few months flew by... 😕

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14 minutes ago, Happenstance said:

Just tried the demo on PC and it's a complete mess. Felt like I was getting about 10fps. Not going near this again until I know it's been patched. Even the menus were chugging so it took forever to test changes (nothing fixed it anyway).

Apparently it's an issue where the game defaults to CPU instead of GPU and can't be quick fixed for those of us with AMD chips. Awesome.

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On 9/27/2024 at 2:03 PM, drahkon said:

Gonna savour the beginning again once the game gets its full release!

Nevermind, I'll keep playing.

Now that I've dropped Echoes of GARBAGE ( :p just kidding, it's objectively not that bad but I hate it) and I don't want to/have time to start anything else, I'm gonna spend more time with the demo right up until I pick up my copy :bouncy:

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Did I spend two hours farming exp?
Sure did.
And was I able to fight an enemy which my party recommended to avoid?
Sure did.
And was this fight super easy because I farmed a lot of exp?
Sure was.

Love this game :D

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And did I get a strong sword as a reward?
Sure did.

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First sign of a review, per Famitsu and their weird review system: 37/40. 

This matches Persona 5 Royal (also 37/40), but comes in below the likes of the original Persona 5 (39/40). But yeah that means basically nothing. 

Of actual interest, though, in line with what we've heard recently about the length of the game, Famitsu are putting this down as 80 hours for the main story and 100 hours including extras. So yeah, a big ol' chunky boi of a game. 

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On 10/2/2024 at 9:39 PM, drahkon said:

Might actually try and max out all Archetypes for everyone but that could take 5 hours, maybe even more.

Definitely more...13 1/2 hours in now :D
Unlocked a total of 5 Archetypes now and got them at max rank for the MC. Still only got one Archetype maxed out for each of the other two party members.

Farming all that A-Exp also brought in some sweet sweet cash. Currently sitting at 100k reeve (that's what the United Kingdom of Euchronia's currency is called). :cool: Also got about 100k of the other "currency" which pretty nice, as well.
I would assume that once I sell the "Consider selling it"-items, I get another cool 15k reeve.

No way I'm leaving the current dungeon anytime soon :p

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On 10/1/2024 at 7:33 PM, drahkon said:

Did I spend two hours farming exp?
Sure did.
And was I able to fight an enemy which my party recommended to avoid?
Sure did.
And was this fight super easy because I farmed a lot of exp?
Sure was.

Love this game :D

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And did I get a strong sword as a reward?
Sure did.

Hate to break it to you but I beat that boss just by buying the Ice items and no grinding at all 😜

Just pre-ordered this, because I actually enjoyed it a fair bit. Hope the full game lives up to the demo. It's basically Persona in a new skin, and I'm all for that.

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8 minutes ago, Shorty said:

It's basically Persona in a new skin, and I'm all for that.

I've been meaning to ask some of you this. You say it's Persona with a new skin, but how much of that is applicable?

Does this still have lengthy social sim aspects in between dungeons that are time-limited. Because I like the Shin Megami Tensei style battle system, but I hate that part.

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4 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

I've been meaning to ask some of you this. You say it's Persona with a new skin, but how much of that is applicable?

Does this still have lengthy social sim aspects in between dungeons that are time-limited. Because I like the Shin Megami Tensei style battle system, but I hate that part.

Given from my experience with the demo so far, I'd say: Yes, it's Persona reskinned but without the monster collecting aspect. There's something similar in place but it doesn't seem like there are 192 "Personas" to collect.

Social links are still there, same as certain characteristics that you can level up with activities that progress time.

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28 minutes ago, Shorty said:

It's basically Persona in a new skin, and I'm all for that.

...aaaaaaaand this now has me questioning whether I still plan to get to Persona 3 Reload before this or just leave it until another time and have Metaphor be my fill of Persona for the year. 

Thanks Shorty :p

20 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

Does this still have lengthy social sim aspects in between dungeons that are time-limited. Because I like the Shin Megami Tensei style battle system, but I hate that part.

why-are-you-the-way-you-are-the-office.g

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Reaching the 20 hours mark...
Aside from maybe the PS1 demo discs back in the day, I don't think I've ever spent this much time with a demo :D

Steam Deck + remote play via chiaki4deck + YouTube or Bundesliga = best farming set-up.

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