Atlus, creators of the highly popular Persona series of JRPG titles, has a busy year coming up. At The Game Awards tonight, it revealed trailers for both the highly anticipated remake of Persona 3 as well as its upcoming brand-new title, Metaphor: ReFantazio.
The Game Awards this year featured many exciting announcements and wins, but for fans of Atlus, the highlight came early in the show with its major trailers and gameplay reveals.
The trailer for Metaphor showed off some of the cutscenes, offering a tease at the storytelling and characters Atlus has come to be beloved for. In addition, it offered some glimpses of what the gameplay will be like and promised a 2024 release date.
Persona Creators Promise a Busy Year
Fans of the Persona series will find a lot of exciting familiarity in the gameplay sequences shown for the new title, as it bears a striking resemblance to what has been shown for Reload. Featuring a similar user interface design language. The game boasts some incredible-looking anime cutscenes, which gamers get a peek at in the trailer.
The game appears to feature a story whose protagonist enters into a tournament designed to decide who becomes king in a fantasy setting. It seems the game will be following themes to prior Atlus games as it seems to be diving into themes of corrupt leadership and the effects of power dynamics.
Longtime Atlus fans may remember when the game was first revealed over seven years ago. It was originally announced as Project Re Fantasy. Not much has been revealed about it in that time, but it has come to be highly coveted and anticipated by fans of Atlus’ many beloved games.
Anime fans will be excited to hear that Ikuto Yamashita will be handling the designs for many aspects of the game. Ikuto Yamashita is well known for his work on the beloved and iconic classic Neon Genesis Evangelion.
While the game is confirmed to be coming in the Fall of next year, however, that is not all Atlus has on its docket for 2024. Reload is also scheduled for release next year, so fans of the studio’s particular brand of JRPG will have many hours of excitement ahead next year.
If the studio’s past is anything to go by, Metaphor could potentially be a very long game. P5 is well known for having one of the longest main stories in the gaming world, with it often taking players upwards of 100 hours to get through just the main storyline.
While fans wait, P3P, P4G, and P5R are available on most major game consoles, as well as on Xbox Game Pass, so for those who have not yet played Atlus’ games, they are now readily available, having seen releases for Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Nintendo Switch earlier this year.
Metaphor: ReFantazio releases next Fall for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC. No specific date has been revealed yet, but players can look forward to Persona 3: Reload even sooner on February 2nd, 2024, also for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC, but not for Nintendo Switch.
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