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Metaphor: ReFantazio is far more than just Persona in fantasy clothing, it could be a new high bar for the genre

The battle music in Metaphor: ReFantazio is incredible. Urgent, insistent chanting builds tension over dramatic string …

It began at the start of the game, outlining events in the United Kingdom of Euchronia: the king has been assassinated and leaves no heir, meaning the royal sceptre and its world-shattering magical power is up for grabs. The Gauntlet Runner vehicles are where you'll hang out with party members | Image credit: Atlus Where the Persona games blur the real world with fantastical nightmares and political parallels, Metaphor does the same but in reverse (hence its symbolic title). That's especially true of the visuals: the main city is an intriguing amalgam of Parisian elegance and futuristic skyscrapers, while elsewhere swords and magic mix with steampunk technologies - the walking Gauntlet Runner vehicles the party journeys in, for instance.

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