r/atlus • u/Patient_Painter2766 • 12h ago
r/atlus • u/Necessary_Term_4879 • 15h ago
Discussion How good is the story and pacing of metaphor?
Ive always wanted to try a persona game, but the 100+ play time and supposedly poor pacing has always put me off. Having recently looked into metaphor, it seems like the most appealing by far out of the persona games. I really really like medieval set games, my favourite so far being ffxvi, I really liked the turn based combat of ffx and e33 (and even ifs the combat isn't great/ similar, im happy to overlook it for the following), so my only concern is how is the pacing and the story. One thing the latter 3 games had In common was an amazing story, now I wouldn't expect metaphor to have quite as good a story as those, but is it still really compelling? Are there strong and frequent story beats, set pieces and plot twists etc. This brings me to the pacing, is the story always moving forwards? Does the story always compile you to keep playing and find out what happens? All of this is to say, is the story good and is it the main focus of the game, and is it paced well? Thats all, Thanks