Metaphor: ReFantazio director and Studio Zero head Katsura Hashino has revealed some relatively disappointing information concerning the potential way forward for what we would have known as the Metaphor collection.
In a brand new interview with Famitsu (through Persona Central and Japanese gaming information leaker ryokutya2089), Hashino says that there aren’t any “concrete plans” to make Metaphor right into a collection, though he hopes that it will occur sometime.
Quite confusingly, nevertheless, Hashino additionally says that growth on Metaphor: ReFantazio started with a view to creating “a 3rd JRPG collection alongside Shin Megami Tensei and Persona“, so presumably, both the scope of the mission modified or Atlus determined towards this route.
We are able to assume that if there aren’t any plans to make Metaphor right into a collection, that additionally means there is not at present a Metaphor: ReFantazio 2 within the works, though that does not imply Studio Zero is not engaged on one thing fully totally different, in fact.
Hoshino says that if a sequel had been to be made, he may “determine that the perfect setting for a future [Metaphor] title is the Sengoku interval”, which, he says jokingly, would create “a JRPG with a world just like the Basara collection”.
He is virtually definitely referring right here to Capcom’s Sengoku Basara video games, hack-and-slash motion titles which have a relatively spotty historical past of Western localization. One can solely think about that this may imply a Sengoku-set Metaphor sport may battle to get the localization nod as properly.
If a Metaphor: ReFantazio sequel is, certainly, not at present within the works, that may come as a shock from a enterprise perspective on the very least; in spite of everything, the JRPG managed to rack up one million gross sales in only a few hours, so a sequel looks like a no brainer for Sega and Atlus.
In fact, if a sequel is within the works, it would not be the primary time a serious Japanese developer apparently overtly lied about not creating extra video games in a collection anytime quickly. We are able to solely hope.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is accessible proper now on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox Sequence X|S. You possibly can learn our very personal Andrew Stretch’s overview of the mammoth JRPG right here.