Game Review

So I played the demo of the new game from the Persona team, Metaphor ReFantazio. Most of it anyway. I won’t be buying it. Normally I wouldn’t want to post a negative review of anything, but I think my reasons behind that decision are interesting and say something about my identity. So here we are. I’m about 7 hours in. Many of my favorite games are not much longer than that.

Spoilers probably. You have been warned. I originally wrote the following at the beginning of October 2023. It is now the end of November. I’ve been hesitant to post it because, pretty much immediately after writing it, I finally spent some time in the underground after spending 20+ hours solely on the surface. If you’ve played the game, you’ll know that means I unlocked an ability that I probably should have unlocked much earlier, which means some of my observations are a little… off.