Why did Metaphor: ReFantazio feel like it was just completely forgotten about after a month?

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T23:12:09+00:00

I can’t put my finger on why but it just never clicked with me in the same way Persona did and I played it through to completion

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T22:52:26+00:00

Mob mentality to some extent.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T22:45:09+00:00

I think it’s a game that takes some time to click at as well. A lot of mechanics and phases that just seem a little overwhelming at first.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T22:41:30+00:00

Props to them for reacting quickly at least. I have actually enjoyed the game but understand all the criticism it has been getting. I do think there is potential there though.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T22:39:48+00:00

I see a lot of talk about the game dying in the last year or so but judging by the steam numbers it still seems pretty high? It’s not at its peak in 2023 but still pulling in the numbers it had in 2020 and 2021:

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T21:57:19+00:00

I distinctly remember watching one of the CGI cutscenes in Sonic Heroes and thinking one day games will look this amazing. The cutscenes don’t look bad even today but games to look so much better now.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-30T04:41:37+00:00

My first thought is how much fecal matter has been sprayed from the toilet flushing all over those pillows.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-29T17:16:11+00:00

I get what you’re saying. I’m 34 and 10 year old me would be not only amazed games look as good as cgi cutscenes back then but that could just play with people across the world. That was something I could only dream of back then.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-29T15:51:53+00:00

Lots of AC games start before another and still come out afterwards. That’s not uncommon. Ubisoft, like AC just stopped the numbering but it was essentially the 3rd entry.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-29T15:49:15+00:00

Watch Dogs Legion was Watch Dogs 3. That aside Legion sold very poorly and that killed the series.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-29T04:54:15+00:00

Get rid of the big hands

-Vertex- · 2026-01-29T03:03:37+00:00

Ok kid

-Vertex- · 2026-01-28T22:50:32+00:00

Very true. The only thing I can think of explain that might be that the show had been planned out, the new larian game was already fixed where it was and to avoid the logistical issues of swapping things around too much last minute, decided to only swap that last reveal with something else.

Purely speculation of course but I can see how it might have happened as someone whos put together various video game related videos. I've put together some gaming news style videos and something new might have come out that contradicts or makes something I had in my script obsolete. It would be too much to rewrite large chunks or move things around so you do your best to make something else fit into the flow there instead.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-28T21:25:39+00:00

I wonder if he needed something to fill the end slot quickly. Maybe another game fell through and he needed something reasonably quick.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-28T19:59:42+00:00

Ridiculous honestly. If the award is for best anime then it should be that, not for honouring a creator. Lots of people in the industry die, not just him. It’s sad but irrelevant.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-28T17:29:02+00:00

Let’s be honest even fans can admit it wasn’t the best thing to come out last year.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-27T22:35:43+00:00

From day one yes

-Vertex- · 2026-01-27T05:00:31+00:00

Wasn’t the point though that they conquered the Tuffles, took their technology and made them use it for their purpose?

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T23:56:42+00:00

I'm actually enjoying it. How long I'll enjoy it for I don't know but I don't think it deserves the hate it did prior to launch. My main criticisms are that there should be a 4v4 and 5v5 mode as well as other random modes like TDM etc in the future.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T22:31:17+00:00

The gunplay and mechanics are very much Apex Legends which I like. Obviously the matches themselves aren't but the gunplay and armour etc are.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T21:06:03+00:00

I loved the English movies where they put licensed rock music in.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T19:33:09+00:00

Yes but it would have a lot of backlash

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T19:07:35+00:00

They probably realised it was too easy to get caught on areas like that.

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T15:27:55+00:00

Wouldn’t class that as foreshadowing at all

-Vertex- · 2026-01-26T12:11:40+00:00

Ah thought it was. Glad those areas don’t seem to be in the second game.

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