If the embed won’t play, Atlus’s trailer is also here on YouTube.
Atlus’s fantasy RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 tomorrow, 12 November, a little over two years after it launched on PlayStation, Xbox and PC. It’s the game’s Nintendo debut, and it comes in well under the original’s asking price, at £34.99 or $39.99. There’s a limited Steelbook Edition at launch, the boxed version is a Game-Key Card rather than a cartridge with the game on it, and there’s a demo on the eShop for anyone who wants to inspect the candidates before casting a vote.
If you missed it first time round, Metaphor comes from Studio Zero, the team led by Katsura Hashino, director of Persona 3, 4 and 5. Swap the Tokyo high school for the fantasy kingdom of Euchronia, whose king has been assassinated, and the throne is now up for grabs in a royal tournament decided by popularity. The fighting is turn-based and built around Archetypes, a job system that lets your party swap between classes, while the calendar ticks away in true Persona style as you try to win hearts, minds and the occasional brawl with a monstrosity the size of a cathedral. It won Best RPG, Best Narrative and Best Art Direction at The Game Awards in 2024, and became Atlus’s fastest-selling game.
The remaining question is whether the port runs as smoothly as the speeches. RPG Site’s preview of the Switch 2 version saw promise but felt it wasn’t quite there yet, so it’s worth reading the launch-week verdicts on performance before committing. Here at SFcrowsnest, we’re fond of any fantasy epic whose climax turns on a ballot box rather than a final boss, if only because it’s the one form of political drama in which the dragons are the least frightening thing on the campaign trail.
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