>Metaphor Orchestra world tour announced for 2026 / 2027https://www.ticketport.co.jp/lp/metaphor_concert/overseas.html>Reshowing of the Metaphor Orchestra Concert set for June 2026>Metaphor: ReFantazio won Game of the Year 2025 from the Japan Game Awards>The manga adaptation of Metaphor: ReFantazio will be published monthly in Shueisha's V Jump magazine, with an anime reportedly in the works.>Resources and useful linkshttps://rentry.co/MetaphorRefantaziovghttps://rentry.co/scenicvista>Metaphor Manga (Chapter releases on the 19th of every month)https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1023739>How to Make an RPG With Katsura Hashino - Metaphor: ReFantazio (ENG)https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EivtGe8xwfWrk7TXZbRqTgXmWk_iSnTW>Metaphor Digital Artbookhttps://mega.nz/file/VisTTLhB#G4epdYn-DfoS9QnkDccPaverj_LjwY35_VpCAsj8kTc>Metaphor: ReFantazio Special Soundtrackhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kT8go1ScWljmvHOjpzywgsnV1fI036Ovg>MetaphorFix (adds proper ultrawide, things, etc.)https://github.com/Lyall/MetaphorFix/releases>A Metaphor in Fantasyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eFkMJzc6ow >Metaphor Orchestra Concerthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwXSEndmlj4 >Metaphor Live Reading Eventhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sLzctQQ9h8 Common Questions>"How should I build my MC?"Realistically anything works, you won't brick yourself even on Hard or Regicide. Common consensus is a hybrid STR/MAG/AGI is best.>"What is the best team comp?"Just about everything works, do whatever you like the most and it'll work on any difficulty.>"How should I manage my time?"There's more than enough time in the game to 100%, do whatever you'd like.>"Which royal virtues should I focus on?"Prioritize eloquence and tolerance and avoid courage boosts.>Royal Slash scales based on the higher of your STR or MAG.Previous thread: >>564566634
what a shitshow
We got caught in a bunch of threads hitting bump limit all at the same time, no specific melty. all the other atlus threads almost went down too but they had at least one post since 11 eastern
lets go to vrpg
Louis is dead no one wants to talk about him anymore
>>566004286never do this unless a thread is dead at all hours of the day and you have no other options
>>566000651Atlus gotta learn that you don't do radio silence like this post covid
>>566004364why not? at this rate might as well
>>566004605Going to any of the alt boards is basically a form of retirement and you will quickly have 0 interest in anyone visiting the thread at all. I get that's exactly what you want but definitely is not something that will be happening when nothing meaningfully changed about this general in a year
>>>/v/738269696everyones clowning on us again..
>>566005720>half the thread is mocking OP for making a fake article >other half is OP desperately replying to himself and probably you shitposting about how woke the game is having the self awareness to figure out the article wasn't real is more than I expect from /v/
>>566004286>vrpgwe literally just need to make the atlus general with /smtg/ only and that would be enough
>>566007274ok whos our spokesman? lets propose to merge
>>566007274>>566008039I would wait until after June to think about merging back with anyone, both us and /smtg/ need to get an idea of whether or not we're getting any content any time soon and between nintendo, MS, and geoff keighley we should know how dead both threads will be in the coming months
>>566008039nobody is our spokesman and do you think it isn't obvious who is pushing for this crap, embarassing
>>566004292I care but you guys hate fujos so you deserve to have your threads die.
>>566015250don't you have a human heart?
>>566015250don't melt down if you don't want people to dislike fujos
>>566015250well fujos as a group always have haters anywhere, as has any group on the internet anyway. Plus this might overlap with flopfag, why give him the satisfaction at all. Either way we have had nothing for ages, june won't change much in our status.
>>566018472The only reason why I would advocate for merging with /smtg/ in particular is because /vg/ is getting worse every month and if we know for sure nothing is happening for awhile it would be the smart thing to push for. We go through threads at pretty much the same rate every time but we've had more of these things happen during sandfolk hours recently
>>566018639well we can see but even if it happens we just revive and go on. Our only lacking factor is posters around sleeping time in euro and burger hours, that isn't a minus in itself
>>566020874Just call them sandfolk hours Metaphor teaches us that there's no cure for racism and there's no point in trying to
>>566021027Fidelio was right all along indeed
If you follow my lead I will all turn us into sandfolk and save the world, what say you
I prefer sandkek or sandnig but just telling someone they're an IRGC shill works too
Opening the Strait of Gallica
Stranger Than Heaven event is happening today and I'm just sitting here thinking I would be much happier to know what the next atlus project is
gay sex with fidelio!
>>566023924right good reminder but after how shitty the story of Judgement 2 was, who knows if they can manage a new franchise
>>566026387I don't think it'll be a problem, Judgment 2 was a victim of its script more than anything else
sorry chuds louis is not your right wing messiah
>>566031865Metaphor still getting daily art is something I fully expected, but I didn't think persona fans would be so butthurt about it
>whenever persona is not mentioned, someone should ask "but what about personafags?"
>>566031998He wants to arrive at what are basically leftist idealisms through a meritocratic system of filtering people by how well they can hold their anxiety but I don't think leftists would subscribe to that because most of their voterbase would get culled
>>566031865>>566032035This was drawn by a fujo that draws Edeni being fucked by the Dragon god btw
>>566032734Gross
>>566032591Louis is just too based for simple right or left
>>566032591Oh and also they hate meritocracy, they thrive on bureaucracy and taxing the donor class of their opposition
>Louis praising you for being earnestly strong with no reliance on cheap tricks followed by a Dumbledore tier HOWEVER right before he hits the prince with the magic Imo that's his best moment in the entire game
>>566035135that was still so funny, I love him
Nobody cares but I just discovered through the textfiles that certain archetypes would've helped you solve dungeon puzzles (that don't exist) such as opening locks and restoring stairs.
>>566041686what? you tell me we coulve gotten those ffx dungeon puzzles
>>566041686>we could have gotten puzzlesGod I wish atlus wasn't so incompetent.
>>566041686There's never any mention of puzzles to go with these, but the closest anything like this got to being implemented was in the royal palace in the teleporter hallway area since that was one of the earliest dungeons they worked on, there's an unused function mentioning class actions in the collision script file for that map. Reminds me of P5 having a treasure trove of this shit in the messages file for the classroom, they had tutorials for an entire stealth mechanic during the daily life section that was cut, references to Shido having unique traps in his palace that you needed strong personas to beat which got repurposed into that whole masked cognitions being Shadows thing. Not a hint that any of it ever got implemented in any way but there was still some text set aside for it.Overall I think they tossed this idea out because they didn't want to make you have certain archetypes unlocked just to interact with a gimmick in a dungeon.
>>566043037>they didn't want to make you have certain archetypes unlocked just to interact with a gimmick in a dungeon.You unlock Prince by default though. And says "temporarily", so likely it'd just simply change your archetype for that specific action.
>>566043585That's all fine for not making you have to physically go in the menu and switch to that archetype but if you don't have Trickster, and you don't have Dark Knight, then you just can't do whatever that is. If they want to stuff something like that in an optional bonus endgame dungeon like the later Kalpas in SMT3 Maniax having event rooms that were influenced by decisions you made throughout the whole game then that would work a lot better than spending time making a gimmick system that you realistically can only use to have something shiny and fancy happen with an archetype the story just gave you. Because that would basically be like the grappling hook in P5R.
>>566044364>the grappling hook in P5R.Kek
>>566044364They kind of already do that anyway with how More gives you the ultimate weapons, it's just in a menu instead of a dungeon.
I love Eupha
when i ascend to neurotypical i will be happy and i will find a young loving foid
>>566059848they love being called foids or so I've heard
Gallica's toes
I just want another game
Morezensky and Ruita Brian
>>566079451There's a racehorse also named Utopia too
>Stranger Than Heaven actually was a yakuza prequel all along :)I like how it looks a whole lot though
Heismay (Otsuka) is in STH
>>566081004looks like they brought back the 1 on 1 brawler combat from kurohyoupretty good
Why is atlus so slow at releasing games compared to other studios?
>>566083265because the only game they've made in the last 20 years as bad as just Pirate Yakuza or Kiwami 3 was Soul Hackers 2 (and I guess P3 Reload)
>>566083265They've always been a small indie company but unironically. Even though P3+P4 put them on the spotlight, it still wasn't enough to save them from bankruptcy before. Their games were always niche of niche for weebs and otakus, but P5 exploded so much with the overall western sphere (more than any other game before it) that Atlus didn't know what to do with all this attention.They always made do with lowbudget but charming games back in the early 2010s, but the market has expanded and shifted so much in the past 10 years that they can't get away with a game made for the PS3 again.
>>566084606You make it sound like they haven't been getting record sales every time they put something that had budget out As much of a dumpster fire as the P3 remake was it still blew through a million copies faster than any Atlus game until Metaphor came out and did 2 million copies faster and both are firmly in the top 5 best performing Atlus games with Metaphor at #2 (or #3 if we split up P5 and P5zoomeR)
>>566084979>they haven't been getting record sales every time they put something that had budget outYes, but anon what was literally the last time they put out a brand new game that wasn't Metaphor? The original SMTV is literally 5 years old by now. SH2 was a failure so I don't count it.
Sex with Gallica
Junah singing Stranger Than Heaven
the sex of berg
there's something very familiar about this
>>566117674WATCH OUT MAKOTOBut the game does seem great, I like the intergration of music as a story and gameplay element, too
>>566117674>the two male leads are named Makoto and Yu>happens to have the exact same kind of opera house that was in Metaphorwhere will the P5 reference be
Stranger Than Heaven is basically what would happen if Gallica directed a Yakuza game and let Fidelio write
would junah let hulk piss in her mouth? would hulk let junah piss in her mouth?
>>566123120no
>>566123120
>>566129923you did offer for me to ask anything
They really fucked
>>566136598Now this probably gets confusing fast
>>566136598louis and rella fucked?!!
https://x.com/megastawiki/status/2052361331882484098Yokoyama mentioned Metaphor by name in the interview he did this morning, comparing it to how they really had to try hard to not get STH to fee like LAD
>>566141159Based yokoyama, he saved RGG
>>566141159>inspired by metakinoIs it literally only chinks and SEAs that simp for Persona these days or what because whenever I see someone bring it up it's someone from some mystery meat shithole that can't speak any english
>>566032470>>566142192
>>566142460Persona is a thing that exists sorry to say
>>566140816They FUCKED
>>566149975sonna bakanna..
bimp
The sex has been berged
>>566141159I'm actually surprised he said they were directly inspired by it, maybe having the exact kind of opera house wasn't a coincidence
>>566165750I'm not sure if you're blind and retarded on purpose but they literally only said that they took a look at the UI and took inspiration from it, not the actual game.
>>566166659No? They used the UI as an example of something they differentiated from what they usually made like RGG is with this game
>>566166659Coping personatard?
>>566032470>>566169338
>>566169506"Yes I am a personatard and I don't like being made fun of"
>>566169543>>566032470
metaphor is much better than persona
the gay avant garde UI is the only thing notable in this game after all...
>>566171102>gay avant garde UIThis isn't a p3 reload thread though
>>566172226>persona out of no where again
canon
basilio gripping fidelio's waist
we need snoop dog in metaphor 2
zorba
junah riding will
>>566191031Playing a paripus definitely
Snoop Dogg as Tyrone Guiabern Snoop Jr. as Zorba Ali
Sexyberger
Eupha protesting the ban on sex before marriage
>>566136598What's their kid's name?
what do you say son, isn't it about time you retire this old general and move on? its starting to overstay is welcome. I hear /pg/ is nice this time of year
>>566224818/pg/ is bad every time of year
Gunner buffs when
Eupha is ugly as shit
>>566248187Your mom is ugly as shit
Would this game have attracted more retarded people to simp for it and make all online discussion worse inherently if Louis was a woman?
>>566250730Louis would just turn into a waifu of the month for people to simp about and be forgotten, it's better he is a guy plus him being a guy and being this beautiful is more impactful. I would welcome a female villain though but I doubt Atlus has the balls to not excuse them in some way afterwards.
>>566224818i must stay loyle to my capo
>>566252223>plus him being a guy and being this beautiful is more impactfulNot really, that just makes him a forgettable Griffith copy. It speaks of fujos shallowness and hatred of female characters if the first thing they think about is how a female villain would be turned into "waifu of the month" as if Louis isn't fujobait of the month. He would have been more impactful as a woman exactly because Atlus makes no female villains and Euchronia has no female rulers whatsoever
>>566005720In general, it feels like there's been more attempts to whine about the game recently, which is odd considering it's...been a year since it came out. I guess as long as it gets tons of (you)'s, it'll keep being clowned on
>>566260810>Not really, that just makes him a forgettable Griffith copytrueeee but i hate foids
when i lower my social inhibition i will be happy and i will find a young caring foid
Please stop replying to yourself
>>566261129The schizo on /v/ who makes those threads and mass replies to them got triggered by something, but what and why is not something anyone does or should care about
>>566264373>3 times in one week>third thread died at 10 replies>other two died at or below 300 replies during American hoursWhy do minorities seem to not like Metaphor? Is it because they can't pretend they're white like they can in all their gacha games?
>>566266297>Is it because they can't pretend they're whiteIt's this but to be fair most metaphor hate threads on /v/ are just people shitting on the OP for being a retard and occasionally noticing how formulaic the posts that agree with him are
>>566260810as if you aren't biased much, I love female characters but Atlus would remove the spice the moment it is a female
>>566271238>but Atlus would remove the spice the moment it is a femaleYou say that as if your fellow fujos haven't been crying about Louis needing to be redeemed and dindud for shipping purposes.
Persona 6 will flop
>>566260810>Atlus makes no female villainsdidn't p5s have a woman as a villain? (or am i misremembering?) >Euchronia has no female rulers whatsoeverjoanna is a ruler in martira
>>566275075The eldan chief is also an old lady
>>566275075It did but the fact that I forgot about her until you mentioned her should be telling. Pretty deserved too because she's dogshit as a antagonist, no matter her sudden reveal of a 'le tragic backstory'
>>566275138Agrica was also the first queen and Will's mom was a queen >>566275230Ah so you're just retarded
>>566275286You know, I understand being called a retard, but I want to know why? At least educate me, anon.
>>566275398If you understand you don't need to be told
>>566275075Joanna is a sanctoress, she works for the church and is not a Queen. She leads Martira but she herself isn't royalty that we know of. And the funny thing is that she exactly gets painted as insane so therefore unfit to rule, and Bardon eventually takes her place. >>566275138>>566275286A chieftess isn't a queen, and even though Agrica should've been considered a Queen, nobody actually remembers her as much as they do the King (who is in the Euchronian coin). The point of the matter is that the entirety of Euchronia's rulership (the kingdom itself) has always been led by men, specially of royal blood.In theory, if you had a woman (secretly of a discriminated race) that pursued strength and power and sought leadership on her own despite the kingdom being used to a patriarchal monarchy, it would make this hypothetical female Louis compelling.You wouldn't have heard the end of it on /v/ because it sounds woke as fuck but since she loses to a black man that affirms that women shouldn't rule it goes back to being a based chud game.
>>566275075P5S had Alice and Mariko, Mariko was the only villain in that entire game that was the least bit memorable because she was a politician that used persona magic to get votes while the rest of the characters were literally "I want to brainwash people into buying merch" since that's the only thing relatable to P5S' target audience of 6 year olds Yes I hate P5S you want to fight me about it bitch
>>566276891The only reason why gruidae isn't a queen is because the eldan sanctum got wiped out. Alice was explicitly their queen.
>>566277119>Yes I hate P5SNTA but thank god, I feel like I’m crazy for thinking that games story is dogshit because all I see is constant praise for it
>>566278569It was literally the first persona game for a bunch of zoomers that won't admit it because they know how it makes them look
>>566271889what do I care what fujos do, I'm a pure Louisfag
all women are queens in my book (I'm 6'2 btw)
She wants it right there.
>>566278569P5S is absolute dogshit and has the worst villains. It's just a cookie cutter Royal and I hate that they wasted the concept of Sophia as a deity like this.
Will redistricting Altabury so the mustari lose their only seat in the house
>>566281630Smooch the berg
>>566281668seething shitmirefag
Berg the sex
Mixed juice from gallica
https://youtu.be/zadppu2Bmy0?si=p5fLNMz_nxnwhtaX
>>566292076true
Metaphor started at 3
>>566312502My favorite part about Metaphor 3 was the reveal midway through the radio that the Archduke of Oceana was assasinated and that now all of Euchronia must go to war
>>566302425If you're going to post some off topic music video at least give us the stranger than heaven song
>>566319119alrighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnEYzp6IpqQ
>>566319119that song really is good, they should release it asap
>>566320472wow its like looking into a mirror
Metafeet Friday?
Zorba singing the Black Snape song
bump
>tfw didn't fight the dragon in the nord minesshould I just start over? they really made it seem like you'd be retarded to try but apparently this ancient being is a complete JOKE. Fuck!
bymp
>>566330932only if you want a sword for Strohl that lasts until the second arc
>>566337360idk how long that is but sounds not that important thanks
>>566330932He's fun to fight
>>566330932You will get wrecked if you don't know exactly what to do and you do kind of need to play the entire dungeon conserving things and making sure you spend your money on a specific consumable to do that fight but it is pretty worth. Fire elemental damage will get you through most of the early game and you can upgrade the weapon you get to make it last longer and it looks cool
>>566321418
Man this game is god tier
>>566355149I don't like how jerky the combat is, camera angles just keep snapping around for each character, turns make it snap around too. Just zoom out and rotate it a little bit sometimes, kinda retarded.
>>566351959I bought Metaphor at launch but didn't play it yet cause I'm an idiot... I bought it specifically for Hunkenberg. Do I do it? For Hulkenberg's feet?
Will's mom was definitely fucking in the woods, but with who...?
>>566363843Bardon
>eldan genes being shoer dominant means the girls can sleep around as much as they want and unless Junah invents paternity tests there's no way for the father to find out
>>565998359>this wasn't a companionk.
my star is rising! hyaaaaaaaaah!
>I will kill him. Literally just 4 words but I always think about this line, amazing what happens when Atlus script writers don't have to write 16 different varieties of Persona 4 and now 5. I have literally no hope for P6
>>566362623yes
>>566376364>>566032470
>>566224818THE ENEMY IS AT OUR DOOOORAND YOU DONT FIGHT
I'd rather see copeposting from /eog/ than /pg/ desu
Eupha getting railed
There's no hope of more content
Eupha getting sacrificed
>>566363843shota louis
>>566396653There's no hope of good shitposts
No hope for devs that dont put out games
Ah yes weekends on /meta/
Dlc soon
>>566433323no
>>566445853yes
>>566450470cutie on the leftuggo on the right
>>566261129It's because some grifter asian account made a collage out of a fake headline + some old /v/ shitposts and got a million X views for it https://x.com/GeraltofGoonia/status/2051813624318926849most of the replies are calling him a retard, but assuming he didn't make those repeated /v/ threads last week himself it's not surprising that someone did
>>566461060And people wonder why I'm racist towards southeast asians all the time. If you have to ask you aren't paying attention.
>>566461060>>566461802>west asia>SEAnigga that's a fucking jeet get your asians right
>>566467149tomato, tomahto
>>566467149India gets its own region on twitter actually
>>566467149>distressed yellow deflecting to browns again
>>566468105>rajeesh panicking that one of his men that likely works for pakis was caught being a shitposting jeet and tries to blame SEAHmmmmm
You guys are literally forgetting Israel is in West Asia. As expected of American education.
>>566466938ouu shiii
Stranger Than eupha
>>566469412Israel gets treated like India too, right now it seems like only the defensive SEA doesn't know how this works, interesting
>>566319119God I wish she had white pubes in that picture
>>566481268Pubes are gross. Zoomers only started liking pubes as a coping mechanism for how they don't have enough pull to get their girls to shave.
>>566481159>Everyone keeps asking me to play this one stupid song but they always get upset when it doesn't come out right. How would I know what it sounds like without all the SFX if they don't?! Honestly, some people...
Sexumbergum
>>566266297I like how all the atlus generals that matter have their own edit of the dog shocking
Nidia sex
>>566166659I can't read jap but I think you're fully of shit because the UI in that game looks nothing like the UI in metaphor
>>566499429Metaphors are overrated, all the hot girls are about similies
>>566510172This is the only hot girl I want anything to do with and she digs metaphors.
Had a dream that a bunch of fujos were posting here but of course it was a dream because all fujos stopped caring about the game
>>566481641No it is the contrast of her chocolate body and white hair that make it attractive.
I am very busy in a /bag/. I can't save this thread by myself.
>>566524829die with /bag/
bardon
bardonfujos will inherit the earth
What is the Metaphor in Metaphor: ReFantazio?
>>566541850Gigastacy
>>566544318zorba
Sleepy weekends probably still ahead...
Catherina sex.
>>566579239Soon hopefully
Healer is surprisingly decent
>>566579239never
Making video games sure is hard huh
when i take the charismapill i will be happy and i will find a young caring foid
>>566613538When SEA gets wiped off the face of the earth maybe we'll finally be rid of you
The chad Louis the Virgin Goro
>>566625219Goro got buttfucked by Shido, Louis died a virgin
>>566614348it's bigger than black and white
>>566628023There's a reason we use the word bug you know
https://x.com/famitsu/status/2053713053087346926Sega is doing this big new merch initiative with Animate, Metaphor is one of the IPs included
>>566629743>recycling merchand the cycle still goes on
>>566629743Give me the new game announcement already
It's so over
Metaphor 2 will add bunny girls
I think Zorba sucks
>>566682263You suck
>p4R very likely dropping in February >going to be lining up needlessly closely with an RGG title againhopefully they have new metaphor for late 2027 that no one is aware of again
Sexer Than Berg
>>566701176I know they count their business year till march 27 but it still baffles me we get nothing out of Atlus this year most likely.
Louis game
>>566715203
when i master cold approach i will be happy and i will find a loving foid
>>566727346No one knows what that means
>>566728632Yeah because women can't love
Where is, you know?The third pillar?The revolution of gaming?The highly accalimed JRPG of the decade?of the century?with 2 million copies?A global phenomenon?With 3 awards?
>>566731524Etrian odessy 6 will come out soon don't worry
>>566731524the first pillar also isn't there and the second pillar is barely there
