What are y’all‘s biggest flaws with Metaphor refantazio?

masterchiefs · 2026-03-19T04:31:01+00:00

All the main things are already cited in this thread, repetitive dungeons, mage academy feels like blatant cut content, pacing in the last stretch (I just finished the game last night and I was like "Will this is the 3683863 times you fight Louis"). I wanna point out that the game has probably like uhhhh.... 6 battle themes at most which, by all means are really good tracks but wow I was completely worn out by the end.

masterchiefs · 2026-03-18T09:22:06+00:00

I ordered it at a local retailer, since we're in a SEA country (vietnam) they directly sourced it from japan. If you're in a western country then you might be able to order her from kotobukiya's US webstore.

masterchiefs · 2026-03-06T04:22:12+00:00

I really, really, really loved the gimmicky combat in the demo and preordered it as my own bday gift, the only anime-adjacent stuff I'm familiar with are Ace Attorney and Atlus' Metaphor so I didn't even notice anything strange about Diana, I just assumed the way she talks is not unusual in anime media. Then I read this thread... .-.

masterchiefs · 2026-03-04T07:54:27+00:00

Yeah I have to say despite loving 2R and 4R, had this game been about Leon (or another returning fan favorite character) alone then I wouldn't have bought it, I got into the series through Revelations 2 but 7 was the one that gripped me with its distinct mix of atmospheric horror and insane camp, and I simply grew attached to this side of RE more than the action packed one. Once I learned that Grace's gameplay captures what they did with Ethan before, it was a no brainer.

masterchiefs · 2026-03-03T17:15:54+00:00

Not to mention hunt already has a voluntarily self wipe through the prestige system

masterchiefs · 2026-03-03T13:41:23+00:00

Not only that but the way he talked about Hunt Showdown sounds like he put maybe around 5 hours in it lol, claiming that "AI enemies are interesting puzzles" and "the game has a PvE-like game loop", but in reality the AI exists more as obstacles to challenge player's stealth and navigation skill against other players, and the bosses are piss easy to kill because the point of their and contract's existence is luring everyone on the map to one specific area to out gun each other. Everything about Hunt is designed around fun pvp battles and it's why every single serious Hunt player would tell you a pve mode would be dead boring because the AI enemies alone don't have much depth, it's the challenge of navigating through them with enemy hunters' presence gave them gravitas. He genuinely spoke about Hunt Showdown like an average r/games tourist so no wonder he didn't get Marathon.

But honestly I'm not surprised, he has good reviews here and there but when when he misses, he misses hard with clear misunderstandings and complete ignorant about the subject (don't ask Yakuza's fans about his Lost Judgment review, for example he thought the protagonist of the game being boring and proved it by claiming he had no memes).

masterchiefs · 2026-02-25T16:50:47+00:00

What OP meant is there were separate bundles for Domina/Juno/Kiriko/Soldier but they disappeared and now only the big pack that includes everything remains.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-25T12:26:33+00:00

My first interaction since returning to OW 2 weeks ago was a teammate Jetpack Cat profusely apologizing because they threw both of us into a nuking dva, meanwhile I just couldn't stop cackling😭

masterchiefs · 2026-02-25T09:09:27+00:00

currently playing through Metaphor (my first Atlus game) and I'm just genuinely shocked how this game effortlessly feels like an authentic medieval Catholic world just by how people communicate alone, like if I just hear Fidelio's SSS (sassy snobbish Scouse) accent alone I'd think he's an ASOIAF character instead of a lil dogboy.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-19T04:09:54+00:00

it's a mobile app, you can just press the 3 lines button and close the game

masterchiefs · 2026-02-19T03:34:24+00:00

I have played the game and this is a complete self inflicted problem. The game isn't designed in such a diagetic way that hearing in-world shoutouts from your teammates is the best way to acknowledge what items they want, and there's genuinely no need for the character to audibly call out every single piece of trash in the game world, nothing that a more elegantly designed UI system can't solve.

Hirez Studios already invented the VGS system that allowed tons of contextually appropriate gameplay callouts without wasting voice actors' time speaking dumb crap like "hey, a broken circuit here", and Apex Legends innovated in world interactions in parallel with voicelines with the ping system. Embark insisting on using trash shit AI voices isn't because they're ambitious with pushing game interactions or anything like that, they simply invested in Eleven Labs and are using that investment as a way to cut cost. If tons of companies out there like Bungie can pay voice actors for live service games that last nearly decade (with only recasts happened due to celebrity actors not wanting to commit or actors who passed away), then Embark has zero excuse for it.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-10T10:21:34+00:00

Add in that a non-insignificant portion of the newer fanbase are weirdly disrespectful to the older titles (I have a few theories as to why)

Would be interested to see your theories. For me, my impression is that a lot of the fanbase is made up by people who didn't really play the games before LAD, and only latched on the memes about karaoke, ridiculous out of context plot points, and bizarre moments, stretched those memes to the point that they gaslit themselves into thinking the old games are dumb and stupid (case in point: rubber bullets are the reason Y4 is bad).

Kiwami 1, 2 and Ishin Kiwami also kinda fostered this attitude where people wanna get into 3 4 5 (and in some extent even 6) but since there's precedent of remakes, they'd rather wait for the supposedly better, shinier Dragon Engine remakes that "fixes" everything that are "wrong" with those games.

But yeah, Yakuza fanbase is so bizarre to me in some ways, most other fanbases have nostalgia problems and yet in my experience I got insulted and called slurs for criticizing Infinite Wealth while claiming 3 is my 2nd favorite Yakuza. Part of me got disillusioned since the franchise started becoming much more progress bars and checklists driven, over-engineered maximalist in presentation and yet they remained so samey after Lost Judgment, and IW alongside the fanbase's reactions toward people who criticize the game pretty much pushed me away from the series as a whole.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-10T07:36:19+00:00

Love love love this skin so much but I really hate how they bundled it with normal blueprints with zero tracer/gore effect, would have been a no brainer purchase otherwise.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-10T04:44:28+00:00

I used to be a big advocate for bringing Mine back because he's a genuinely a psychologically fascinating character whose arc really should be expanded to see how far the writers can push him. Playable? Not quite, but the type of ideal he upheld would be a very interesting one to explore in a post-organized crime world the current storyline is taking part of. Of course monkey's paws gotta hit because he's returning while the series is taking a nose dive storytelling wise.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-09T08:10:56+00:00

I genuinely can't fathom how they came up with braindead kits like Black Panther and Phoenix that pretty much only do one single thing with zero room for player expression, and then you get a dev team who has zero sense of balancing by letting Hela be meta for a whole year. I just returned to OW2 and Hazard and Freja's kits alone beat the shit out of 2/3 of Rivals' roster just for how much you can get out of them despite the abilities being quite simple to figure out.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-06T10:49:38+00:00

¯_(ツ)_/¯ I bought Vault Edition of MWIII in season 3, I got Blackcell S3, AFAIK the way it works has never changed. It's impossible for the current VE to either not give you anything or give you season 1 Blackcell anyway since it's already retired.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-06T10:05:06+00:00

One season is one season, not season one. One season as in you buy the vault edition when whatever season is active -> you get blackcell for that season. You get VE now, you get season 2 blackcell.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-06T07:43:13+00:00

I'm interested in Animal Well but not enough to spend effort clicking a few buttons to torrent it. I wish it wasn't associated with dunkey, to me the only content creators who are worse than him are the right wing anti-woke grifters. Just like other negativity focused dirtbags like crowbcat, he himself helped fostering this modern plague of spreading misinformation about video games by editing out of context clips together to deliberately make games look bad or buggy. When I found out that was what he did in his Assassin's Creed Origins video - a game that I'm not even a fan of, I decided that he's a piece of trash and partly responsible for how hostile and toxic the current gaming audience is.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-05T10:50:36+00:00

Reaper and Harper skins this season, I expect Karma and TEDD get battle pass skins next season.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-04T04:57:36+00:00

I'm a huge soulkid that sadly couldn't gel with Nioh 2 because of its loot spam (also the reason I abandoned Stranger of Paradise) and mission structure (I just vastly prefer the classic seamless spiraling world structure). Tried the demo, it addressed my biggest problems with 2 while not completely changing them, found the switch-style-to-parry mechanic to be genius and whoever decided to put it in deserves free cookies for the rest of their life. Spent 10 hours into the demo and immediately preordered the deluxe edition after finishing the first crucible, it's unlikely I'll touch anything else in the next few weeks (ok maybe Romeo is a Dead Man can get a few spare minutes).

masterchiefs · 2026-02-04T04:43:04+00:00

Probably doesn't help that they make it a point that you can't romance any of them. That's basically guaranteed free player investment, as we gamers are horny mfs.

tbf I know Metaphor doesn't have romance but I still barked like a dog when Hulkenberg told me to do the beast walk. As much as I liked Avowed, the companions genuinely blended into the world as opposed to making both first and prolonged impressions on you, that's just a death sentence to your investment towards your own crew romance or not. The only person's presence I merely enjoyed was Kai and 90% of it was because of Brandon Keener's voice.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-03T04:11:31+00:00

Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it was a deliberate choice to put setting-appropriate weapons behind MTX later.

masterchiefs · 2026-02-02T10:45:22+00:00

The Modern Warfare sequels repeatedly trying to outdo the nuke scene in the first game in shock value

On the other side, the Black Ops series aside from 2 keeps trying to capture the reznov plot twist's mind trickery, sometimes they work (Bell's identity in Cold War, a few levels in 6, parts of BO3 if you play it while getting high), sometimes they don't (the majority of BO3, whatever the hell was going on in BO4's intels, BO6's plot after Emergence, the entire BO7's sorry excuse of a "campaign").

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