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Metaphor: ReFantazio releases a meaty prologue demo that spans the game's 'first 4 dungeons'—plus, your save data will carry over to the full game

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24 gigabytes of confidence.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is shaping up to be dangerous for me, as someone who has never played an Atlus RPG—mostly because the developer’s veer away from psychic dream-delving high schoolers and into high fantasy is exactly my kind of bag.
And now there’s a demo! Announced earlier today and re-announced during the Tokyo Game Show, the Metaphor: ReFantazio prologue demo lets you play (you guessed it) the prologue—and it’s downright meaty.
The Steam page promises the « first four » dungeons, seven out of the game’s 40 Archetypes—which function as classes the characters can equip—and « six followers, including party members who will support the protagonist’s journey ».
I’m still downloading this 24-gig heft of a demo as I write this, but players are already reporting they’ve got about four to five hours with it, which is downright generous—alas, they’re also reporting some performance problems which I’ve got on good authority aren’t isolated.

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