Picked up #MetaphorRefantazio on Steam (Lunar New Year sale). Think I’m going to play this between when it’s time for a Trails break.
Cold Steel 3 is such a doozy and I did it back to back with Cold Steel 1 & 2. I might need a breather before the Cold Steel conclusion.
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Metaphor was way more formulaic than I expected. The second half was a slog because they follow a rigid structure that ends up more linear than Persona despite what the travel system would lead you to think.
There’s usually only one viable activity to do each day and the side quests are structured in a way that you can do them all each chapter with one ‘trip’. Okay time for your regularly structured dungeon with undeniably evil villain to defeat at the end. Nothing you haven’t seen in persona 30 times already.
Other than that the ‘political’ aspect of the game was ‘pick the most vanilla and uncontroversial choice at every opportunity and luckily you are always the good guy and the world will contrive itself around giving you this status.’
Honestly, I regret paying full price.
@[email protected] I’m sorry about the regret. I know that feeling. Fortunately, as a Trails fan, what you described actually appeals to me. I like structure and when games are a bit more linear. But that’s my own preference. I understand if yours is different! BUT!!! thanks for the advice to levelset myself!
As long as you’re having fun mate! I will say, the music is FANTASTIC!
Almost forgot to mention that you’ll also need to suffer through 5000 thoughtless lines of dialogue about how great and inspiring your companions find you no matter what dialogue option you choose. Pure banality.