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Metaphor: ReFantazio looks surprisingly good on the Nintendo 3DS, even if it's the crunchiest form of the JRPG you could possibly play
News It works, but at what cost?
Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is "not retiring" after his next JRPG Fantasian Neo Dimension, but taking more time for "the music I want to make"
News "Everybody calm down!"
Metaphor: ReFantazio rewards JRPG players with buffs and bonuses for using the toilet and remembering to shower
News Your protagonist can get permanent buffs just for having a bathroom break
One of Metaphor: ReFantazio's best upgrades over Persona isn't just a time saver, it's becoming my go-to get-rich-quick scheme
News The JRPG's Merchant Archetype isn't one to miss
Director of stylish JRPGs Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 isn't excited by "highly polished games that look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom"
News Atlus' Katsura Hashino clearly values originality and creativity
Discord's creator is such a Final Fantasy 11 fan he essentially created the entire platform just to talk to friends while playing the MMO
News Stanislav Vishnevskiy is also fond of Final Fantasy 14 but hasn't built anything quite as comparable as a result
Metaphor: ReFantazio is yet another 80+ hour JRPG from Atlus, but its director says the studio "didn't want to bore our players by keeping it the same the entire time"
News The game is admittedly "pretty voluminous"
Lord of the Rings initially inspired Metaphor: ReFantazio, before Atlus "threw out" all its fantasy research to preserve "the originality that defines us"
News Katsura Hashino decided that Atlus' own ideas are what makes its games special
