LogFAQs > #983199460

Speaking as someone who loves Persona 3 4 and 5 I dropped Metaphor the other day. Got to around the 40% (I think) mark and realized I was finding it a chore to boot up which is usually when I call it quits on a game.

Cast just doesn't hit it for me. They're not especially interesting (besides Heismay but his arc ended and I've played P5 so I know not to bother playing further just for him). The arcs aren't super interesting either, it's fantasy but it's super stayed fantasy. I read a fair bit of fantasy and so I can say with some surety that what I want from my fantasy stories is one of two things. Either I want high fantasy (lots of super arcane epic shit, think Stormlight Archive or Wheel of Time, or game examples including Tales/Final Fantasy/Xenoblade ect) or if it's grounded fantasy I want deep characters (think Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings saga including The Farseer trilogy and its various sequels).

Metaphor most of the time felt like it wasn't hitting that more fantastical element nor was it coming even remotely close to that character aspect. Louise was cool but he's not prominent enough that I'm going to slog through 8+ hour segments to get the next hit of Louise doing something while twirling his Magnificent Bastard mustache. Meanwhile the main cast is, to be blunt, boring as paint drying. Persona worked because the cast was vibrant to the point where even just seeing all the mundane interactions of the cast was appealing, in Metaphor it bogs the pacing down to an intolerable degree instead.

Music was also surprisingly meh considering Shoji Meguro's work on Persona 3 4 and 5 (and Digital Devil Saga). Kinda felt like it was aping Nier at times but without any of the subdued elements that make Nier Replicant and Automata's soundtracks special.

/my two cents. I went into Metaphor pumped given the creative minds behind it, and on paper "Fantasy Persona" sounds awesome but it just ain't for me.