That’s what makes Metaphor: ReFantazio so powerful, resonant, and in every sense of a word that’s unfortunately been bastardized into meaninglessness, woke as fuck.

Metaphor: ReFantazi-go to the polls ... will tell you that we need to get back to a time when games weren't 'woke', and were instead about simple, grizzled tough guys tackling straightforward ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio ponders these questions ... but before I knew it, I’d wake up with the melodies of the battle and town themes stuck in my head, humming along to them as I got deeper into ...

But here, with Metaphor, and with its story of a small heterochromatic boy and his fairy pal on a quest to end apartheid and wake up his boyfriend (or something, I haven't finished it yet), the ...

It’s no surprise that Atlus explicitly references Bosch in the not-at-all subtly-named Metaphor, because it’s doing the same thing. And it does it so well. It’s controversial. And weird.

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Metaphor: ReFantazio, the new fantasy RPG from Atlus’ Persona team, is out today. It’s an excellent game that builds upon its predecessor’s ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The greatest strengths of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the latest roleplaying game from the minds behind Persona, come from the freedom the developers ...

We know Atlus' Katsura Hashino and Shigenori Soejima will be part of the show for Metaphor: ReFantazio ... A cryptic message from the Alan Wake 2 Twitter/X account indicates something from ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio is its latest and potentially finest masterwork. Much was said of Persona 5's flashy, grabby menus, but I'd still argue that not enough was said. In turn-based games ...