“COMBINING THE ART AND STYLE OF PERSONA AND THE GRIM TONE OF SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI.”
FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 11 OCT / PUB SEGA DEV STUDIO ZERO / PLAYERS 1
Amid a summer games lineup drowning in futuristic shooters and gritty slashers, ReFantazio feels like a breath of fresh air. Not only because it’s got drop-dead gorgeous art that’s hard to peel your eyes from, but because it feels like an amalgamation of the Atlus of old with the modern sensibilities that result from Persona becoming a megahit.
If you didn’t read our huge feature last issue [ – ed], Atlus came to prominence in the mid-’90s, its games standing out in a sea of 16-bit and PS1 high-fantasy RPGs thanks to Shin Megami Tensei’s mix of a bleak, modern-day apocalypse with international mythologies and digital devil summoning. Spin-off Persona took things mainstream with its third title, which coalesced the combination of dungeon crawling with social-sim school elements.
