Well, their experiment with Soul Hackers 2 failed miserably although the game was somewhat ok, doing this one more time but with a new IP makes no sense to me. Both Sega and Square should give up on making big ass JRPG's with no Nintendo version before losing any more money. Or just back them with a big and expensive marketing push similar to Tales of Arise.
I can't wait to see their respective sales figures now.
I'm sure ff7 rebirth will sell loads like the first ff7 remake, atlus is just more niche so they are not going to do that great overall. Even so did smtv sell really well, I never followed its sales figured
SMTV cleared 1 Million copies sold, I believe that's the last sales update we have for it. Which is still really good, and makes it the best-selling SMT game by a good margin!
I actually had Valkyrie Elysium and Star Ocean 6 in mind when I said Square. FF is massive it'll always sell well. Well, maybe if it's only on xbox lol
Persona 5 had strong legs, and Royal helped it more, but I don’t think RePhantazio will sell a lot. It could maybe be a SMTV situation. It’ll sell well, but not P5 well.
Don’t really see the comparison to SH2 beyond them both being made by Atlus. Metaphor is getting a much bigger marketing push, looks way more ambitious than SH2 ever did, and has “from the creators of Persona” plastered all over the place.
This will get a Nintendo version, just on Switch 2 instead of Switch.
Pretty much right from the jump this game looked like it was taking a lot of things from both SMT and Persona and mashing them together - Sort of like if you did a Persona 6, except set it in a fantasy/Isekai? world and added in a lot more SMT elements to it. Which sounds pretty good to me, it just remains to be seen how well it's executed. I'd like to see a deeper dive into the combat system and how whatever the demon/persona equivalents work. But we still have almost a year, so lots of time for them to clarify all that.
how circular
We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of game design. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment?
This leaker is credible based on his past leaks that came to fruition.
Firstly the leaker is a girl and second, I have hear other stuff behind the scenes and have seen things that suggest otherwise.
At least her has been credible
I don't know that they have leaked much that suggests insider sources though. I'm pretty sure the P3 stuff broke from I'm a hero too on the other site, then Pan Hime and Midori (twitter leaker) found the web address at similar times, then with p5t all that could have just been them tracking web data, they thought P3R was coming to switch and announced it because it was on ATLUS' description by accident. Now they are just saying a lot of unconfirmed stuff. They tweet a lot so it's easy to just believe everything but the persona party game is apparently shelved now so there's no way of knowing if that's real, P6 is 2 years away and if thtey just guessed that P3R and Metaphor were coming to Switch 2 - I mean that's just a pretty safe bet.
Yeah I was in the boat of October or next year. Outside of the obvious COD release, there is a chance Dragon Age releases this year and that is a big rpg, that will get a BG3 boost, and who knows what else can show up.October 12th is right where I’d expect it more or less, so that tracks. Maybe a smidge earlier than I thought but seems reasonable. I would say that’s a good date to get a few weeks of buffer before the big holiday releases, but we currently don’t know of any big holiday releases
Long games are just so much better with the hybrid format. This is gonna be a 60-100+ hour jrpg most likely, not being able to play it on the go is just really inefficient. I also just like having titles on a nintendo platform generally unless it's a competitive game
The only example that I could think is similar would be the Trails games. Daybreak, the one coming out, has the same encounter strategy of using action for mobs, Metaphor appears to be simpler we shall see, but in terms of length versus previous entries, there is no change
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Yeah, that makes sense - when you make a change like that, you develop the gameplay around that change - which might just involve increasing the number of "significant" battles and perhaps the overall difficulty in this case, in which case you'd end up with a different "balance" of combat, but no real change in overall length. We'll have to wait for more details to really draw conclusions, but given the team involved, I think "not short" is a safe assumption for game length, lmao.The only example that I could think is similar would be the Trails games. Daybreak, the one coming out, has the same encounter strategy of using action for mobs, Metaphor appears to be simpler we shall see, but in terms of length versus previous entries, there is no change
The average main story for the Trails games is between 40-60 hours, Daybreak has an average of 58, so on the higher end. And reading the description this seems to be a big game.
