Director of stylish JRPGs Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 isn't excited by "highly polished games that look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO bo…
Katsura Hashino has been at Atlus for around 30 years, and his latest director's credit on the fantasy JRPG Metaphor: ...
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Persona Director Katsura Hashino Reveals Creating The Series’ Stunning Menus Is ‘Actually Really Annoying’
The Persona series is known for its striking menu systems, but director Katsura Hashino reveals that making them is 'actually really annoying.' ...
Metaphor: ReFantazio’s music is canonically all in the hero’s head — and now I’m in my head about it
And so now, every single time the song changes in Metaphor: ReFantazio, I don’t think about composer Shoji Meguro. I think ...
Can Metaphor: ReFantazio change the world, just a little bit? Its creator hopes so
ReFantazio is a fantasy story with real-world inspiration, game director Katsura Hashino says in a new interview.
Metaphor: ReFantazio's original fantasy world gave the Persona 3, 4, and 5 director "freedom" to work on ideas "that we couldn't put into other games"
Long-time Persona director Katsura Hashino reckons working on the demon-hunting, high-schooling series is a little "easier" ...
Metaphor: ReFantazio's Lord of the Rings influence thrown out as originality "defines" Atlus, says director
Atlus' Metaphor: ReFantazio was initially inspired by classic fantasy like Lords of the Rings, but the developer "threw out" this research to focus on a more original world.
Why Persona’s longtime director made an epic fantasy RPG
ReFantazio, an epic RPG that launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on October 11th. In a lot of ways, it’s reminiscent of ...
Metaphor: ReFantazio Is the Future of RPGs
Atlus’ new game from Persona designer Katsura Hashino is about to transform fantasy games—with anxiety.
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Metaphor: ReFantazio combines real-time and turn-based battles because its director wanted to integrate "the idea of manga and movie-style combat"
Metaphor: ReFantazio has a mix of real-time and turn-based combat because director Katsura Hashino wanted it to have battles ...
Metaphor: ReFantazio is doing things Persona never dreamt of
When you think of the Persona series you think of Persona 3, 4 and 5, and that’s because these are the games directed by ...
Metaphor: ReFantazio interview with Katsura Hashino – ‘it’s important to preserve our Japanese roots’
GameCentral speaks to the director of Persona 5 and Metaphor: ReFantazio about the complexities of making a Japanese game ...
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Metaphor: ReFantazio interview with Katsura Hashino – ‘it’s important to preserve our Japanese roots’
An email interview though, rarely results in anything very interesting. We were due to speak to Atlus’ Katsura Hashino, who has worked on dozens of Shin Megami Tensei and Persona games over the ...