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Image: Square Enix Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake may have beautiful, updated graphics, but the soul of this adventure is as old-school as ever. As one of the first tasks of your adventure, you’ll need to make your way over to Patty’s Party Planning Place to recruit three companions. Whether you choose to take along […]
Image: Atlus / Kotaku Like Persona before it, Metaphor: ReFantazio has a major limiting factor to discourage you from exploring too many dungeons in one sitting: MP (mana points). If you’re anything like me, you’ll get annoyed at how few opportunities there are to regain MP, particularly early in the game. MP fuels the most […]
Where’s the humanness in workplace interface metaphors? To all the office warriors, this is a short story of your courage and grit, living through the endless mania of metaphors in the digital world, often twisting your senses between pixels and atoms. Base image: Unsplash The workday had gotten busy for Riya, with a whirlwind of […]
Like any good JRPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio allows you to assemble a ragtag group of misfits as you embark on a journey to ultimately save the world. Not all of the misfits are created equal though, so let’s rank every party member in Metaphor: ReFantazio from worst to best. 6. Hulkenberg It physically pains me to […]
Developer Atlus’ Metaphor: ReFantazio was released this week with a couple of major milestones. It is not only the company’s fastest-selling game on Steam, but also the biggest launch. While this might come as a surprise to some, it shouldn’t, because turn-based RPGs pull in thousands of players every week. Atlus’ latest is part of […]
Image: Blue Rider Interactive One of the most well-known principles of theatrical storytelling is widely referred to as “Chekhov’s gun.” The principle suggests that if some element is introduced to a story, even in a casual, offhand way, by the end, it had better prove significant. Or, as it’s often summed up, if a gun […]