Atlus’ new game from Persona designer Katsura Hashino is about to transform fantasy games—with anxiety.

Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming fantasy political drama RPG from Atlus, is only a few days away from its October 11 release date. Broadly, the game takes the social sim and time management mechanics of the Persona series and fine-tunes them to make a truly exceptional RPG that represents a step forward for the studio in a lot of ways.

ReFantazio is the first original game from Atlus' new Studio Zero, but it fails to bring much that sets it apart from the Persona franchise.

Metaphor: ReFantazio is a big, ambitious game with a sociopolitical centric story, and these are the features that are found in the game.

But even Thorn's review is ultimately pretty positive, and it looks like Studio Zero has continued its string of back to back JRPG dingers. Metaphor: ReFantazio will launch later this week on October 10, and you can wishlist it or check out its demo on Steam.

Metaphor: ReFantazio from developer Studio Zero aims to take tried-and-true bits of powerhouse series like Persona and implement them into

Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Issues delivered straight to your door or device Metaphor: ReFantazio launches this week, with an abundance of high review scores, and a serious shot at game of the year.

Metaphor: ReFantazio brings a lot of gameplay mechanics from other Atlus games, but also has a lot of things that make it unique.