Metaphor: ReFantazio Immediately Tops 1 Million Sales at Launch

Awesome. I feel like the demo + positive reviews really helped boost this close to launch.

Metaphor is a terrific game so far, despite some optimization issues. Studio Zero never misses. And, in this case, the combat is balanced in a way that makes it a lot more satisfying in many respects than Persona 5.

Think it would have sold even more if this month wasn’t so packed.

Sure it will sell even more when Atlus release the Super Golden Royal version in a couple of months 😅

@Ralizah I had no intention of playing this game until I played the demo. This will be my first go at an Atlus game and can't wait to dive into the story.

Love this for Atlus. It'll be a great pick-up in a couple years.

@NimrodNation20 In general, I feel like demos benefit good games overall.

If you end up loving this, there's a lot of Atlus goodness on PS5. Catherine: Full Body, Persona 5 Royal, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance are all fantastic as well.

I'm so excited to jump into the full game this weekend. The demo has been living rent-free in my head for a week now. Congrats to Atlus. Another excellent RPG!

The Industry should pay attention to the importance of demos.

The trailer didn't convince me at all as it wasn't clear what the game was about.

Playing the demo helped it so much and I knew it was going to be a solid game.

It also helps being an RPG where the plot takes off quite quickly, contrary from the norm.

RIP my wallet. I wasn't planning to get Metaphor this month but the demo changed my mind. I just hope this won't add up to my already increasing JRPG backlog. Can't wait to continue the journey.

I was worried that the Xbox marketing would hinder sales but evidently an excellent game is an excellent game. Well done, Atlus.

I think one of the best selling points from the demo was just the sheer confidence of it. With this sort of prologue approach, you'd usually expect maybe the opening hour as a gentle tease of the story, and then to maybe be given the option to catapult into a short segment later in the game to see the battle system in full swing.

But the mad ***** just straight up handed over the first 5-10 hours of the game, depending on your playstyle (I spent 12, with a lot of meandering around to see, talk to and loot everything). Plenty of time for people to really get stuck in and decide that it's definitely up their alley, or to find that the formula doesn't quite work for them in one way or another.

Square would say it failed to meet expectations.
Anyways, congrats to Atlus.

Been looking forward to this for the longest time but I felt it'd be 87-89ish on MC cause critics might have had enough with P3Reload and SMTV all in the same year, so was contemplating getting it on sale. Yet it still managed to sit at 94 - I had to preorder quickly.

What is it about studio zero that makes them get tons of praise and sales lol

I wish I could play rn but I gotta hold out for a bit. I'm glad project re fantasy has finally seen the light of day after ages, even if this wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I was imagining medieval fantasy persona

@NimrodNation20 Back in the day, all games had demos. A gaming magazine would contain a CD packed with demos, it would keep you busy for the month to try everything until the next one. I don’t understand why it stopped.

Thats honestly amazing, especially for a JRPG

Sadly I dont have time today to play it but I took next week off so I've more than enough time

Can’t wait to dive into this after work!

@CielloArc totally. Square is not impressed by the game sales, even if it’s not their game.

I'm tempted to get this over Ys X since i enjoyed the demo. But i remember Atlus and their ritual of FES / Golden / Royale / Vengeance aka complete edition that includes all DLC, some QoL, and new contents like a year later.

So yeah, i'll just wait for complete edition. But hey, congrats for Atlus / Sega 🍻

@CielloArc SE really needs to celebrate and thanks their fans more for their support. FF XVI sold 3+ million copies which is still a lot compare to other JRPG but not even once SE thanks the fans. What they only care is "the game doesn't meet their expectation". It just sound full corporate greed who see games and fans as nothing less than cash cow :/

I'm very happy about this. I'll be getting it in payday next week and I can't wait, but I'm surprised to see that many sales already. Most big games don't do much more than that this quickly so for a niche genre like a JRPG that's fantastic news

They got a sale from me. THIS is how you promote a game; release a generous "prologue" demo that let's you carry your progress over. Honestly I never heard of this game until I got my hands on that demo. I've never played any Persona games either, but after 5 hours with this, I fell in love, and immediately placed an order. I loved the little touches like the message at the beginning "we really hope you enjoy this slice!" and the trailer at the end that showed you what was in store if you chose to get the game.

Really was won over by it. Bravo Atlus.

EDIT: My only concerns is that the game runs quite poorly. It's in desperate need of some framerate fixes and please, please put some anti-aliasing in pronto.

Just got sent my copy for free by mistake (cancelled the other week due to backlog)

Sorry but not sorry Altus 😭

It's been a while since I woke up earlier to get some gaming time before work, but that was absolutely worth it. Just finished the first dungeon and Archetype system is a lot more fun than Persona system so far. I love being able to mix and match everyone.

Just got back from work to find my copy waiting for me, so that's me sorted for this weekend. Also that trailer they released yesterday was superb.

I was a little worried this would undersell so I'm glad to see I was wrong.

You love to see it!

@CielloArc It's funny isn't it? FF16 and Rebirth sales are better even when being sold on one platform and Square still aren't happy. Wish they'd give us more updates because FF16 must be far past 4 million by now after the DLC's and steam release.

I always knew this game would be huge despite the doom merchants predicting a lacklustre launch. And it will likely grow and grow from here.

Looks like the Xbox marketing did zero damage to sales as expected in the real world.

Despite being a big Atlus fan, I was going to put this off until it hits good sales, just like all games, but after I tried the demo I got hooked and even going back to P3R wasn't scratching the itch. Ended up preordering. The last game I preordered was.....Soul Hackers 2, lol.

@Ralizah No Soul Hackers 2 in that list? You MONSTER!

@JB_Whiting If you think the performance is bad in this (yes, it's known to cripple 4090's in it's default settings), you should be VERY glad you did not buy SMTV on Switch at launch, lol. I paid full price, and never even got to the first main objective, the 15-25fps slideshow was unplayable to me. Re-bought vengeance on PC and it's running 80fps on my non-extreme Ally....it's like a whole new game.

I’m so happy this is doing well! I’m going to buy it as soon as I’m done with Persona 3 Reload, but seeing as I just started it, I guess it won’t be for another six months.

I think this is super impressive considering it's a brand new IP. Persona 5 breaking out is one thing, but it still had the goodwill of P4 and P3 before it.

Glad that it's doing well, but this is also a prime example of why publishers are okay with pushing games with dog poop performance out the door.

Fix later (if at all).

@NEStalgia Soul Hackers 2 is the one you play when you've platinumed every other Atlus game on the system and are still desperate for more MegaTen. It has its place.

SMT V wasn't that bad on Switch. At least not in the bit you played, lol. Third area was a bit of a slideshow at times. And yes, the game feels wonderful on Steam Deck as well. Locked 60fps, pretty much. It can hold 90fps much of the time, but I can't really tell a difference from 60, tbh, so it's not worth the additional battery drain.

@Ralizah lol there's sadly some truth to that. Much as I hate to admit it because it actually is a really good game, and the battle system being a bit like tms makes it have a great hook.

Yeah I haven't tried smtv on battery yet but, wired turbo on NON extreme ally running 120fps after whatever that was on switch makes me so it just because I can lol. Though it'll take a back start from metaphor for sure now.

I read somewhere else, that they sent out 1 million copies, that's not sales!

It's also a bit weird, since the game came out just yesterday, how are supposed to already know, they sold 1 million copies?