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Metaphor: ReFantazio rewards JRPG players with buffs and bonuses for using the toilet and remembering to shower

Your protagonist can get permanent buffs just for having a bathroom break

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Metaphor: ReFantazio's turn-based combat excels, but its brief action-based fights are what's made me fall in love with the JRPG grind all over again

I forgot how fun it was to kick back and wail on weaklings in the same dungeon for hours on end.

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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"

The game is admittedly "pretty voluminous"

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For fantasy JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona director gave himself a crash course featuring classics like The Lord of the Rings, but "if we tried to copy that it would just be a copy"

Director Katsura Hashino wasn't as familiar making fantasy worlds, so he studied the best

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Persona director and JRPG veteran says the amazing menus in Metaphor: ReFantazio were "really annoying" to make, just as Persona 5's were "impossible to read at first"

Never underestimate the power of a good menu

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Metaphor: ReFantazio Metacritic score confirms a new certified JRPG banger, as the Persona devs' latest effort ties with Astro Bot as one of the best games of the year

It looks like we have yet another Game of the Year contender on our hands

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Metaphor: ReFantazio players could complete an entire Persona with the 60 hours some of them have spent in the JRPG's demo

Metaphor: ReFantazio's Prologue demo is taking most people 4-6 hours to complete

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First review for Persona devs' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio gives it the exact same score as Persona 5 Royal and confirms it's at least 80 hours long

Another meaty JRPG for an absolutely stacked 2024

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After admitting he was a Master Chief fanboy years ago, Atelier Yumia producer says the crafting JRPG's "biggest reference" is Halo

Combat Evolved shaped the upcoming alchemy RPG

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Metaphor: ReFantazio's Prologue demo is rolling out now, and save data will carry over into the Persona developer's new JRPG

The demo shows Metaphor's opening hours and can be "played repeatedly"

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Metaphor: ReFantazio devs say the JRPG's high-stakes elections are just like driving a race car, which is why they're sponsoring F1's most lovable losers

Yes, they're putting Hulkenberg on Nico Hülkenburg's car

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The first gameplay trailer for a long-missing JRPG series hitting Xboxhas just landed

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land, the latest entry in the Atelier JRPG franchise, has just received a new trailer showcasing the title's gameplay and story.

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Nier creator Yoko Taro says Persona devs' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is "so stylish I almost wet myself," and no, he "didn't get any money" to say that

Those menus really are stunning

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JRPG icon Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons Final Fantasy 6 is the "most complete" game in the series, "especially because it was the last Final Fantasy to use pixel art"

That puts him at odds with fellow FF veteran Tetsuya Nomura, who thought the classic game could've been better

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Final Fantasy 7 community effort to mod unused content back into the classic JRPG takes another big step forward

New costumes, fixed localization, and restored FMVs are all here

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13 years later, retail listings spark hopes that beloved JRPG Tales of Xillia is getting a remaster

Could the rumors be true?

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After 22 years, the remastered version of a cult classic Game Boy Advance JRPG just appeared on Steam with a bunch of user-friendly updates

Now's your chance to play Riviera: The Promised Land

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Trails lead doesn’t see hits like Persona 5 as "rivals," reckons it's "a good thing" that the West is finally "hungry" for more JRPGs

"Rather than a feeling of competitiveness, it's more a feeling of cooperation," Toshihiro Kondo says

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After 20 years, one of the longest-running JRPG stories is "about 80-90% complete" and finally coming to an end

We might yet see the end of Trails

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With one day left in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale, don't miss best-ever discounts on RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon's Dogma 2, Persona 3 Reload, and Cyberpunk 2077

Some of the best, biggest, and even newest RPGs and JRPGs hit record lows on Steam

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Elden Ring is "maybe not quite" a JRPG, but Ys and Trails head says it's "difficult" to define the genre in general: "It can't really be described"

There's "kind of an ineffable thing" that makes JRPGs what they are, Toshihiro Kondo says

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Metaphor: Refantazio and Persona studio isn't a "rival" to other JRPG devs trying to break through: "It's more a feeling of cooperation"

Ys and Trails head Toshihiro Kondo says the more the better

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Shin Megami Tensei 5’s excellent re-release sells 500,000 copies in 3 days, pushing the Atlus JRPG series closer to its more popular spin-off Persona

Persona 3 Reload sold one million copies in its opening week

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"It's definitely harder than Persona": Shin Megami Tensei lead explains that his new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio needed more challenge or else "it won't feel right"

Buckle up, gamers

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I finally spoke to the director of the 21-year-old JRPG that kicked my teeth in, and I didn't expect an apology: "Shin Megami Tensei 3 is the hardest game I think I've ever made"

Katsura Hashino explains Nocturne's reputation

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