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Metaphor: ReFantazio - a sublime game let down by bizarre technical choices
Digital Foundry reviews Metaphor: ReFantazio - a truly superb RPG marred by older tech, odd technical choices and inconsistent performance.
However, Metaphor features a lot of higher production budget scenes too, including lengthy fully-animated 3D cutscenes, which often depict pivotal action moments that wouldn't really work as little dialogue dioramas. Firstly, the game's overall level of rendering tech is reminiscent of the PS3 era, so we're not getting the sophisticated baked global illumination, physically-based materials and TAA that defined PS4 and Xbox One efforts, never mind the ray-traced lighting that is increasingly characterising the current gen. It seems like the size of some of the outlines scales with rendering resolution on PC as well, which means that you do lose a bit of visual stylisation as you step up the res, and the finer lines tend to shimmer obviously.
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