Metaphor: ReFantazio

This is my personal favorite of Atlus' releases. Although the Persona series is the poster child of the studio, after playing persona 3,4, 5, and shin megami tensei v, i got really tired of the highschool setting with the same-ish persona monsters. They're great games, but metaphor hits the spot for me and is in general the most memorable one, second to only the ending of persona 5 royal. The artstyle imo is very appealing, and i love the archetype system over the persona system. The medieval setting is also very fun, and the main antagonist is my favorite villain of all the atlus games. While i do still want more persona games, personally I do hope they release games that stray away from the personas and its mechanics that we already see a lot of.

This is a nice game if you like Persona series but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ why [spoiler] did they make the final battle so fkn hard? Literally had to switch to "storyteller" difficulty even tho i killed all the dragons + minibosses and had everyone lvl 78 with best gear. bro just gains 1000 turns and eats 2 from mine. How do you fight that? [/spoiler]

What an abosolute masterpiece of a game. It feels like they have hand picked the best parts of persona and mashed them all together into this world. THE story, music, combat, art, characters all breathe such life into this experience that I could barely keep the game down throughout my playthrough. I have 0 complaints with it and it is an absolute must buy for anyone who enjoys Atlus games. I hope someday down the road we get some sort of sequel or sucessor to this. This game losing GOTY to Astrobot is criminal. Easiest 10/10 in my life