played some of that metaphor refantazia demo
everyone's complaining that it runs like shit but it seems okay to me, which is just that regular reminder that i'm apparently some kind of troglodyte when it comes to what i will accept when it comes to graphics
truly by the persona people, it's got an aggressively slow start. also considering my current state of constant dizziness, the slight waver to the UI elements is really fucking me up.
okay i played another few hours.
thing that stands out most to me is like... this is meant to be the Persona team, yeah? I imagine that one of the things that helped P5 stand out, is that it had big bespoke, unique dungeons with cool setpieces and such.
In Metaphor, the current dungeon I'm in is a mine. A regular-ass mine. The first dungeon was... a fort. A regular-ass fort. Almost indistinguishable from pretty much any 3/5 JRPG that came out in the past 30 years.
I know this is meant to be "a return to classic fantasy RPGs" but it kinda stands out.
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