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.

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.

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

Atlus has once again created an incredible game with Metaphor: ReFantazio building up an epic story, deep characters to discover, and combat and exploration that levels up the Persona formula

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ReFantazio follow. The Persona series has a history of carving out time to belittle queer people and women, even when it spends large swaths of its runtime advocating against the systems that keep those people down.

Metaphor: ReFantazio brings a lot of gameplay mechanics from other Atlus games, but also has a lot of things that make it unique.