Metaphor Re:Fantazio

I'd say it's pretty similar to P4/P5 in the MP stakes. Those were always a case of see how far into the dungeon you can get each day before you run out of MP for me, and it feels like the exact same with this.

I made the mistake of starting from the beginning and struggled to get through the demo content, but I'm past where I got up to in the demo now and loving some of the options that are opening up with archetypes and skill transfer.



Runs nicely on PC too with the fans barely kicking in with a 60 FPS cap.

I've got VSync on, so assume that my frame rate is capped. For some reason, my Nvidia overlay refuses to show me what my FPS it is running at with this game, but it does say that it is using 80-90% of my GPU. Probably should lower the resolution scaling (150%), but no AA options, so I'm guessing it will look jagged at 100%.

Does look pretty though, even if it isn't technically advanced. Runs absolutely fine for me too.

Really enjoying it as well. Not massively beyond the demo (or what I assume is beyond the demo, at least, as I didn't finish it - just rescued some hostages and found Catherina's friend in the first real dungeon). As I mentioned before, Persona 5 ended up frustrating me as I always felt like I was being handheld to do very specific things in the 20 or so hours. It was just one long tutorial. Here the structure is similarly guided, but it doesn't feel as tutorialised and I'm not feeling as restricted.

Yeah, the save carries over.

When you think you are going to finish the first dungeon in the city, do it with a few days to spare at least, I thought I was at a point where I only needed one day and it's put me miles back as I didn't have enough time. Lost most of today's session.

I put this on at lunchtime and suddenly its gone 6 and I have a headache.

I must have been abducted by aliens! It's the only possible explanation!

Persona is a series with lots of time limits, time management and missable content. You get many save slots for a reason, save often and keep many save files.

For the first dungeon I found there wasn't a huge amount of things to do before the deadline (apart from sitting on a bench or talking to old codgers/religious nuts), so I just dipped into it 3 times early on and got it out of the way.

Finished that earlier and then did the optional level 15ish dungeon and it's properly clicking with me now. Excellent stuff!

I'm sure there will be "how to do as much as possible in one playthrough" guides out in a couple weeks anyway

For my part (as far as the demo goes) I defeated then did in-city stuff on day 1, took on the request of Short of maybe figuring out a way to do the last bit on day 2 as well instead of having to regroup, I don't think there's anything I would have done differently, but we'll see...

The closest I've come to Persona before this was Tokyo Mirage Sessions, so I cried uncle

(I'm still on Normal, IIRC the second highest difficulty available -in the demo at least-, though)

Started the demo over the weekend too. Not quite sure what to think yet. I wasn’t expecting it to be quite such a blatant “Persona but fantasy” game. It even has the long warbling velvet room sections to skip through as quickly as possible.

Not 100% sold on the overarching story setup. The humans and glimpses of modern worlds feels a bit naff even if I don’t exactly know what they’re going to do with it

Combat is enjoyably familiar though.

I'm not quite that far yet but I'm loving it as well. I get genuinely excited to try a new archetype out when I get one, although one of them will bankrupt me if I dont stop using it 😂

Think it does a really good job of establishing a clear goal, setting, central antagonist right from within the first few hours unlike Persona. Playing on Hard mode too is generally OK if you've the upper hand going into a fight but if you're ambushed you can be in trouble. Some of these harder bosses is actually making me resort to using items in order to exploit an enemy weakness to get another turn to do something else, which isn't really the case in Persona where you could have a lot of options covered already. Even the Grand Cathedral dungeon is a bit more involved, secret passages and such. The game's great, can't stop playing. But I guess any JRPG is until you reach that 60 hr mark or so. Just hope the story can keep up, but so far so good.

If it's the fight I'm thinking of (the one that teaches you the importance of switching your characters from the frontline to the backline), its big telegraphed attack only hits the frontline. Move your characters to the back and they won't get hit at all, and the rest of its attacks are more manageable.

Classic Persona, honestly. Even having barely played the series myself, I know that targeting opponents' weaknesses and avoiding their resistances and immunities (and conversely, making sure the opponents can't strike yours) is enormously more important than just taking a bit more/suffering a bit less damage, like in your typical RPG.

Then in this one there's knowing when to pass the turn to another party member rather than use it up needlessly, calculating your turns to potentially take a full action when there's only a half action remaining, avoiding having dead party members like the plague because the fewer party members you have alive the fewer actions you can take (and likewise finishing off enemies is usually better than spreading out the damage because it cuts into their actions)...