The destruction of the gates of Evin prison, where I was incarcerated, risks becoming a metaphor for the fate of the Iranian ...

Unfortunately, Metaphor is not 170 hours long. According to my total play time it’s more like 110 hours if you do every last sidequest, major battle, and optional distraction. I say ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio sold one million units on launch day, so there’s a scattering of discussion about whether its two ...

From its more intimate moments to the grand gestures in its main story, Metaphor makes a loud and clear statement – one that is both relevant to our world today and a timeless examination of the ...

“It’s strange to feel envious of a fictional world,” she remarks, speaking sideways to an audience seeking escape. But “Metaphor” is no mere escapist fantasy, nor is it ...

Growing up an insufferable weeaboo, I was a staunch believer in consuming media "the way the creator intended." Whatever the hell that meant. For me, it was watching or playing stuff in the ...

It’s no surprise that Atlus explicitly references Bosch in the not-at-all subtly-named Metaphor, because it’s doing the same thing. And it does it so well. It’s controversial. And weird.

Regardless of the quality of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the project was started as a way for its developer, Studio Zero, to create a third JRPG franchise of its own, to stand alongside Shin Megami ...

But there’s a reason why Metaphor’s battle music is so arresting and it’s not just because of the musical stylings of a Japanese monk chanting in an invented language inspired by another ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio has received a lot of bad press for its music, but it's not all that bad. Suffice it to say that Persona fans have high expectations for Metaphor's score - it was composed by ...

The battle music in Metaphor: ReFantazio is incredible. Urgent, insistent chanting builds tension over dramatic string stabs before a glorious brass fanfare emerges with choral harmonies. It's as ...

Metaphor's title is rather on-the-nose, as the world of Euchronia, though it has magic, is meant to serve as a mirror to the real world. It's a cruel world filled with inequality, conflict ...