CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Blizzard / Kotaku It’s time, once again, for The Wanderer to suit up and go dungeon crawling. This time, in the new Vessel of Hatred expansion for Diablo IV, you’re in pursuit of poor, tormented Neyrelle in the Hate-ridden lands of Nahantu. Much as I’d like to tell you that there’s a nice handy […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Atlus Metaphor: ReFantazio is the latest RPG from the minds of the Persona. Like its predecessors, Metaphor is a dense game with lots to do and talk about, from its Archetype class system to Atlus’ maturation as storytellers. There’s even something to be said about how cool it is to skate on your sword. […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Atlus / Kotaku Sometimes the optimal play is to not play optimally at all. In Altus’s Persona-like RPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio, there are the class options you’d expect from the genre, so you might expect to be told the best possible choice to most enjoy the game. It’s just…it doesn’t work like that here. It’s […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Capcom “I wanna take you for a riiiide.” As a kid, I grew intimately familiar with the bouncy theme song for Marvel vs. Capcom 2. I’m sure most everyone has a story about this game, and here’s mine: my family could not afford a babysitter, despite the fact that my parents worked from sunrise […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Atlus Much of Metaphor: ReFantazio’s structure seems evocative of the modern Persona games. This includes the party’s journey, with each member going through an “awakening,” similar to how Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves do when they acquire supernatural powers. In Metaphor, these awakenings happen when they gain their Archetype ability, a […]
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CategoriesNews GamingOne of the most confounding things about video games is how they often tell stories that are clearly meant to be real-world allegories rather than escapist fantasies, but are still often framed as such by the companies that make them. After playing four hours of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming fantasy RPG from the minds behind […]
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CategoriesNews GamingFrom each character’s magical awakening and all the RPG mechanics it opens, to the social sim elements that feed into how you interact with the world, Metaphor ReFantazio is clearly adopting the Persona formula – but it’s doing so for something seemingly bigger in scope from both a gameplay and storytelling perspective. After playing about […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: BioWare First up, we have Scout Lace Harding. This dwarven rogue is probably the most recognizable confirmed party member, as she played a pretty pivotal role in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Harding was the player’s scout in the 2014 RPG, and as has become a tradition in Dragon Age, a fan-favorite side character is getting […]
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