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![Metaphor: ReFantazio screenshot showing a woman with long, straight blonde hair holding onto a leather-bound brown book](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qV7inhUSdML28MGsEjdMoA-320-80.jpg)
Persona and Shin Megami Tensei lead reveals you won't be able to see every dungeon in Metaphor: ReFantazio in just one playthrough as the new JRPG offers "a lot more freedom"
By Anna Koselke published
News You simply "can't do it all"
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As Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail looms, fans gather to wave goodbye to the expansion that ended a 10-year saga
By Hirun Cryer published
News Farewell to Endwalker
![Final Fantasy 14 players gather around a new activity on the moon](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pizDbm4hWSh8eUuMW59qx-320-80.jpg)
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail maintenance - when the MMO's servers go back up for patch 7.0 and Dawntrail early access
By Iain Harris last updated
News The 48-hour countdown is on
![Screenshot from Final Fantasy 14's new graphics update, showing a character in an action pose.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iyB3Cf8D9j2cD7jFcSwMLQ-320-80.png)
Final Fantasy 14's MMO account sign-up process is an "endless labyrinth and rube goldberg machine," and one fan's built a tool to save you from all the hassle
By Dustin Bailey published
News This tool finally makes it make sense
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Director of hit JRPG Shin Megami Tensei 5 echoes FromSoftware's stance on hard games: "Our intent was never to make things difficult for difficulty’s sake"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Elden Ring and Shin Megami Tensei have some surprising similarities in difficulty design
![Metaphor: ReFantazio's protagonist shakes the hand of a character with bright pink hair.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oBmiFYfD5AQDJyWGu5hvdF-320-80.jpg)
You can't date your friends in the new JRPG from the Persona 5 devs because it isn't a game about flirty teenagers: "It's part of the realism of the setting"
By Catherine Lewis last updated
News Metaphor: ReFantazio brings a different tone to your party
![Metaphor: ReFantazio](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/589CR8QU2yF8yTjPVRD5iR-320-80.jpg)
"It's not like we wanted to distance ourselves from Persona": How Metaphor ReFantazio turned years of work on JRPG icons into what's now my most-wanted game of 2024
By Austin Wood published
Feature Interview | Director Katsura Hashino and character designer Shigenori Soejima, both Persona 5 veterans, dive deep on Metaphor: ReFantazio
![Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hero Cloud shown against purple light](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zyTBfzLEnge3nULoKCBwM7-320-80.jpg)
Final Fantasy 7 art director says there's an "alternate timeline" where the classic JRPG could've been a pixel art game, and I kind of want to live there
By Jordan Gerblick published
news Yusuke Naora has commented on a viral image of an early development screenshot of Final Fantasy 7 with pixel art
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