GAMES
[ Words Alan Wen ]
FIRST PLAY METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO
PS5, PS4, XSX, PC
Fantasy is one of the biggest genres in gaming – just look at WorldofWarcraft and last year’s Baldur’sGate3 – but it does come with some pretty stuffy preconceptions. So Studio Zero, whose creative leads are known for contemporary RPGs such as Persona 5, wants to deconstruct what fantasy means.
While you may see knights, fairies and people with pointy ears in Metaphor, it also subverts expectations by framing our own modern world as a form of utopian fantasy, complete with ‘human’ monsters. And it looks the business: a combination of anime, painterly aesthetics, steampunk-meets-Evangelion and even ’60s fashion.