Metaphor: ReFantazio, the turn-based RPG by Studio Zero, is now available on Nintendo Switch 2.
That also means today’s the day where the award-winning game is now permanently priced down, with massive price adjustments for Southeast Asia.
This RM249 game in Malaysia now only costs RM86 on all platforms, including the Switch 2 release, except Steam if you read this on November 12. Game releases (or in this case, price revisions) by publishers from Japan usually take effect one day later in Asia.
On Switch 2, Metaphor: ReFantazio can be run in Graphics (higher graphical fidelity over framerate), Balanced or Performance (higher framerate at reduced resolution) modes. The setting can be set independently for TV mode or Handheld mode. The press release admits that frame rate may drop under certain conditions, but the game is targeted to run at 30 FPS or higher on TV mode and handheld mode.
The graphics settings are not available in the demo version on Switch 2, but the full game has it.
To commemorate the launch, and the perma-price drop, a new illustration by Shigenori Soejima has been shared featuring the big baddie of the game, Louis.
In Metaphor: ReFantazio, players take on the role of the player-named protagonist (it’s Will, if you really want the canonical English name) as he embark on a literal election race across the lands of Euchronia. Throughout this time-strapped journey, you will be recruiting allies to fight beside you and also have to win the hearts of the people as you attempt to win the royally decreed election, and stop the evil Louis from ruling the land under his ideology.
Speaking of ideology, Metaphor: ReFantazio is unabashedly a collection of metaphors and commentary about society. Be ready to engage with some food for thought should you embark on this turn-based RPG with a cool take on the job system, dungeon crawling, and time-based life sim aspects seen from the Persona series. If you’re politically informed already, it might be child’s play in what ideals and commentary it provides, but that’s fine. For a good number of people out there, this might be their political awakening.
Have a taste of the various way these characters from different fantasy races express their worldview in this new trailer:
Metaphor: ReFantazio is out now on PS4, PS5, PC (Steam, Microsoft Store), Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. Check out our review of the game here.