Pros - press turn system is still GOATED - I love the whole cast of characters - the best Atlus villain - the Archetype inheritance system is a joy to customize // Cons - Atlus has the consistent need to lock away super bosses behind NG+ which is annoying // As a new IP for Atlus, Metaphor is such an amazing success. Rounding out the Persona and SMT roster, Metaphor takes a stab at a fantasy inspired story and it is a joy to experience. The story revolving around a popularity contest for the throne is a genius way to drive forward the plot and get you invested right away. Every step of the journey brings quite a significant amount of tension and that is thanks to the fantastic main villain, Luis. Without a doubt, the best antagonist Atlus has done in the last ten years. Mainly because he has very consistent goals, remains charming in the most insidious way and mainly, he remains as the main villain to the very end. No sudden twist, no sudden: It was actually this random god all along. He is the main villain and he stays the main villain. The rest of the cast is equally fantastic. Strohl is by far one of the best bro characters, Hulkenberg is hilarious, Heismey made me really sad and happy and so on. Even the supporting characters manage to ALL be interesting and fun. This is the first Atlus game where I wouldn't have cut a single character or even a single bonding event. Brilliant. As for the gameplay, I will repeat myself. Atlus still got the best turn based system on lock. The twist this time are the Archetypes. A vehicles for skills, that got the ability to inherit skills off of other archetypes. So for example, a Strohl mastering a Mage archetype, can then add magic skills onto his Warrior archetype. If you let Heismey master Faker, you can add debufs onto his Thief atchetype. Wanna make Hulkenberg a tank who can heal, or Eupha a healer who can hit hard with physical skills. The option is there. So much fun. In conclusion, Atlus knocked it out of the park with their new IP. Even though I wish they left some of their design decisions in the past (NG+ Super Bosses), that wouldn't ruin this game for me. Absolute peak.

Hi Loved this game until the last part, this game has huge and i repeat huge balancing issues, in last 20hours of the game it forces you to grind to reach last archetypes but it is totally useless there are enemies that even at story difficulty they are really difficult to beat and it is because of wrong gameplay there are way to many archetypes and they need to be combined with right formation of the team but even like this bosses hit very hard and you cannot make a good strategy you only have one and one strategy the one decided by devs, this is really really stupid, and SHAME on these corrupted professional reviewers that gave stellar score to this game they are only liars to not point out really issues.

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