Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

Cara is a graduate of NYU's Game Design program with a love for all things narrative and gaming. Metaphor: ReFantazio's world is built on the diversity of its people, both in its tribes and ideologies ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Back in April, as part of a promotional video about Metaphor: ReFantazio, the game’s director Katsura Hashino quietly dropped a fact (via translator) that has haunted me ever since: “The music you ...

A sleeping prince. A wicked wizard. A kingdom not worth saving. These are the foundation of Atlus’ ambitious new RPG Metaphor ReFantazio (out today). It’s a project nearly 10 years in the making and a ...

Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for both non-experts and scientists themselves. For example, “the big bang” ...

Eight years ago, Japanese director Katsura Hashino announced that he was forming a new team within Atlus after more than a decade spent working on the Persona series (and Catherine), saying he wanted ...

When Atlus revealed Metaphor ReFantazio as the first original project under its new Studio Zero division, I was licking my chops in anticipation. An all-star team of ex-Persona devs with series ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. After spending 45 minutes hands-on with Metaphor: ReFantazio and ...