#game-review # Metaphor ReFantazio ![]() [Console:: PC] [Status:: Played] [Approximate Start Date:: 2025-02-13] [Finish Date:: ] [Clear Time:: ] [Total Play Time:: 100m] [nReplays:: 0] ## [Rating:: 75] # Playthrough Notes - Started on PC, might hop between it and Steam Deck - I answered the questionnaire questions for my stats before really critically thinking about what they meant. So Of course, I ended up going for Magic as my starting bonus. - Named my protagonist "Benvolio" - Started him off with an investment in Magic. I'm gonna let it rock and not try to metagame super hard. - Will come back to this, it's just such a big game and I want to be "lucid" playing it. - I am setting this one aside for now to play through the other JRPG on my radar, [[Dragon Quest III HD-2D]] ## Racism and Prejudice - Protagonist is an Elda, and people call him filth to his face - Soldier dying in the Northern fort chooses to hate an Elda in his final moments. How pathetic, # My Thoughts - Every single game these days wants my real dang name. - Guess [[EarthBound]] really was a trend-setter, huh - In the span of like the first fifteen minutes of the game they've had two scenes that demonstrate poverty and immense wealth in back-to-back shots. - This is a class structure story - The fact that our protagonist talks and has a voice does throw me off a bit. This ain't a silent protagonist. - Te book is OUR WORLD - lemme tall ya Gallica, real life ain't so much of a fantasy neither. - There's gotta be a commentary here about fictional worlds and oppression, and imagination. - Naming the creatures "humans" is definitely amusing ## This is Fantasy Persona - goddamn Makoto Yuuki [[Persona 3 Reload|Persona 3]] looking protagonist - The way he manages to summon his "archetype" is *totally* not just awaking his Persona. - I mean, he even does that thing that they all do to summon it, ripping out his heart. - Compare to SEES shooting in the head, [[Persona 4]]'s card crush in hand and [[Persona 5]]'s mask rip - Gallica definitely feels like Morgana in terms of function and presentation - Alejandra Reynoso definitely sounds similar to Cassandra Lee Morris ,that's for sure. - Oh funny, she's Liko in the [[Pokemon Horizons The Series]] anime. # Favorite Moments / Memories - # What were you doing when not playing this? - # Relevant Links - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-games-2024/ - I knew about the game before I started playing it, but before I started the game, I was scrolling NYT and THIS was the picture they used to advertise the game. I froze, mouth agape. - Yes, that's an ATLUS boss, alright.