Stan owes their love of turn-based RPGs and all other things gaming to a second-hand Game Boy Advance SP and Wario Land 3. Persona, Zelda, and Pokemon rank among their all-time franchises, but they ...

After receiving a Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards 2024, and multiple accolades at numerous other award shows, it's safe to say that Metaphor: ReFantazio was one of the most acclaimed ...

When faced with enemies in Metaphor: ReFantazio's overworld, players have the opportunity to assess their situation and gain preemptive combat advantage, depending on their approach and archetype ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio's Akademeia, like the enigmatic More who presides over it, is teeming with magic. The room, which operates as More's study, exists outside the confines of Euchronia, a beautiful ...

At the recent G-Star 2025 conference in Korea, Katsura Hashino, the visionary director behind Atlus’s Persona series and ...

ATLUS’ Persona series is known for its memorable characters but also for its brutally difficult combat. This was also the case with Metaphor: ReFantazio, the Persona-like RPG developed by ATLUS’ ...

In both cases, the Prime 1 Studio Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor: ReFantazio figure reveals were quite vague. Only the game logos appeared. Each one did note that “collectibles” would be made, which ...

Sega is officially the best-rated publisher of 2024, according to Metacritic - and the first publisher to ever snatch the crown in three different years, mind you - thanks to a blockbuster line-up ...

Composed by Persona’s Shoji Meguro, the game’s music made the world of Metaphor: ReFantazio one of magic and melody, feeling ingrained into every aspect of the title’s almost 80-hour runtime. From its ...

Hidden JRPG super-bosses are at this point a genre tradition, making players test their mettle after conquering every other challenge in the game. But even in a crowded field, Atlus' end-game ...

Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio director Katsura Hashino claims Japanese role-playing games — often categorized as JRPGs — are entering a new age, dubbing the resurgence as JRPG "3.0." Reflecting on ...