How Metaphor ReFantazio pulled Atlus out of its Persona rut
Year in Review | With fewer similes, for starters
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Atlus makes consistently great games. Both Persona 4 andPersona 5are all-timers, but it’s true that they are all a bit…samey. Every game has the same familiar setting, a Japanese high school, and shares the same character archetypes. There’s the klutzy guy, the reserved smart girl, the athletic girl, and so on.Metaphor: ReFantaziohas made the key improvement that was necessary for Atlus – it shook the studio out of this rut.
When I got Metaphor at launch, it took me a good few …
