Atlus’ new game from Persona designer Katsura Hashino is about to transform fantasy games—with anxiety.

Metaphor: ReFantazio launches this week, with an abundance of high review scores, and a serious shot at game of the year. The RPG from revered publisher Atlus is an enthralling adventure set in a picturesque, fantasy land, but fans of the studio may see this new title as a Persona-like first and foremost.

After nearly a decade, Metaphor ReFantazio is finally here. However, does Atlus’ latest JRPG live up to the hype or does it fall short?

Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming fantasy political drama RPG from Atlus, is only a few days away from its October 11 release date. Broadly, the game takes the social sim and time management mechanics of the Persona series and fine-tunes them to make a truly exceptional RPG that represents a step forward for the studio in a lot of ways.

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Metaphor: ReFantazio is a big, ambitious game with a sociopolitical centric story, and these are the features that are found in the game.

A fantasy Persona game - that's the back of a napkin pitch for Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming Atlus RPG that blends the key mechanics from the Persona games with a novel fantasy setting. But Metaphor marries this with an expanded scope,