@11:08 I had no idea what Metaphor was prior to watching this video. But thanks to the sponsored stream hosted by 'Pat Stares At,' I now am completely aware of the game's existence and have a reasonable understanding of what to expect from the it, AS WELL as an awareness of the fact that the demo is COMPLETELY FREE and AVAILABLE TO PLAY RIGHT NOW! I'm so glad that SEGA decided to pay 'Pat Stares At' money in exchange for playing this game. It really has helped me, an otherwise ignorant consumer, to learn of this great-looking new product, as well as to be assured of its features and/or quality. I surely would benefit from SEGA continuing to pay 'Pat Stares At' money in exchange for featuring their games on his show. ;)
I knew WHAT it was, IE a fantasy rpg by Atlus but I kind of stayed away from most marketing to kind of be more surprised. I did play the demo and it is very interesting. It's like they took the bones of Persona and instead applied it to characters/setting/world more akin to say Fire Emblem and it does seem to work surprisingly well. I am a bit concerned that there do appear to be like.........social stats? And time limits which means schedule planning which aren't always my FAVORITE part of Persona but I'm willing to give it a shot.
I’m glad I lived to see the era where Pat just puts his face in awkward places in all his thumbnails/is openly getting sponsored to advocate against safety
Since Pat is literally not allowed to say it, I’ll just let everyone know that this game will ALSO be available on PlayStation and PC. Microsoft has been paying ATLUS big bazonga bucks to pretend that its an Xbob exclusive.
2:40:50 WAIT A DAMN MINUTE! King Hythlodaeus? More? As in "Thomas More", writer of "Utopia", where Hythlodaeus is a main character? God damn it, even the world map looks like the illustration of Utopia. It always comes back to Utopia!
I love that it looks like all the Human designs are based on stuff from Hieronymus Bosch paintings. The first boss is in the bottom right corner of the centerpiece of "The Garden of Earthly Delights". With a few liberties taken of course, Bosch didn't paint it with knife feet, lol
You know, I didn't catch this stream live, not because I think Pat Stares At is a bad sponsor, no, He's a Perfect Vessel for Sponsoring Video Games. I didn't catch the stream, because I saw the pop-up and went "Oh shit, Demo?" and downloaded it myself.
Maybe not 'cosplay' in the traditional sense but it would be interesting to go to, say a Masquerade ball, in this world and everyone is just dressed like salarymen, police officers, and politicians.
I played through this demo to completion and I've pre-ordered it. I know pre-ordering isn't good, but there was no way I was NOT going to get this. The artistic talent on display is enough for me to support this game. I want more games to look like this and sound like this. I appreciate good art.
The music in this game goes SO HARD and never stops. I was wandering down in the mines and it was sounding like I was going up against Anduin in Soverngarde.
I kind of wished i read the glossary, as I named the protagonist "Hythlos" not knowing the king was named Hytholdaeus lol so when the kings name was used a few hours after i set the protags name i felt kinda silly.
Honestly I named him Minato as that was the name I originally used for P3 protag and he kind of reminds me of him. His friend with his grey hair, long sword kind of reminds me of Yu Narukami from P4.
@@MrSammichMANOMNOMNOM Well Al in Weird Al means Alfred...which works in your favor I suppose. With similar names. We have a lot of names that end in "son" for example.
I actually had it in mind to name the character Eldren even before I realized his species is an Elda and they're called Eldans. So yeah, Eldren felt like it became even more fitting. The thought of the main representative of the species in the story having a similar name to the species itself had a nice touch to me.
I MISSED THIS STREAM!? Oh man what a pain, I just got done with the demo but didn't "complete" it; it's stellar and I highly recommend it. Definitely a must buy later this month.
It's funny that I listened to the first part of The Silmarillion audiobook by J.R.R Tolkien to understand that the music being the first magic in the world of this game is a reference to how the creation of the LOTR world started.
Add on to the thing about the map. Countries didn't just hand out maps because if they fell into enemy hands they would be used against the Country. So that one map would be worth the lives of a whole platoon to reclaim if lost and if the solider lost it he (if not his whole house hold) would probably be executed or enslaved depending on the universe.
@@Mannihannibull Wrong, that's not Cassandra Lee Morris. It's Alejandra Reynoso. The rest of her work doesn't really sound like Gallica though, she's most well known as Sypha from the Castlevania netflix series and Lika from Pokemon Horizons.
i dont think it's a coincidence that the MC in this game looks almost identical to Makoto in P3. i wonder if there will be a connection later. i know they like doing weird shit sometimes. also, the fact the game is going so hard on "PLEASE, FOR FCK SAKE, NO RACE WAR SHIT PLEASE. DEAR GOD" while being a game almost entirely bout race wars, is the fcking best and i wish them the best of luck getting through this shit storm of comparisons later. QUICK, WHICH ARE THE HIDDEN KOREANS!? "this bro is wearing magic headphones" here's the thing. this means Gallico is choosing the sound track. this girl hand picks the music for the bullshit we deal with. to put it into context: it's like if Mona, upon seeing Shindo, specifically chose rivers in the desert instantly. THIS FAIRY GIRL IS THE BEST ALREADY.
this demo totally goes further than this cave, right? I'm at the cave, already took down the big bad right away and got 2 other archetypes, is there MORE IN THE DEMO???
@@Vanity0666 Of course, thats why if the next Persona has a Female character its gonna be a option BET because he's too much of a incel deep down to make a female only protag.
It's amazing how modern demos are put together. In previous generations, they would just let you play through a sequence or two to get a feel for the gameplay. Ever since Lies of P, every demo I've played has let me play the first few hours of the full game. Pat is just barely at the halfway point here.
Dude forget about Lies of P, Square has been doing that with a lot of their Switch RPGs for years and the Dragon Quest XI demo had 10 hours and was what convinced me to get it after hating the original PS4 version.
As someone who has been avoiding all promos of this game, I was shocked by how profoundly ugly this game is lmao. I can't stand all the disruptive graphics either, it was enough to make me uninstall. Hopefully they eventually add an option to chill the fuck out on the animations.
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@11:08 I had no idea what Metaphor was prior to watching this video.
But thanks to the sponsored stream hosted by 'Pat Stares At,' I now am completely aware of the game's existence and have a reasonable understanding of what to expect from the it, AS WELL as an awareness of the fact that the demo is COMPLETELY FREE and AVAILABLE TO PLAY RIGHT NOW! I'm so glad that SEGA decided to pay 'Pat Stares At' money in exchange for playing this game. It really has helped me, an otherwise ignorant consumer, to learn of this great-looking new product, as well as to be assured of its features and/or quality.
I surely would benefit from SEGA continuing to pay 'Pat Stares At' money in exchange for featuring their games on his show. ;)
God damnit, I even read it with Pat's voice in my head.
@@SciFiMangaGamesAnime It really does read that way
I knew WHAT it was, IE a fantasy rpg by Atlus but I kind of stayed away from most marketing to kind of be more surprised. I did play the demo and it is very interesting. It's like they took the bones of Persona and instead applied it to characters/setting/world more akin to say Fire Emblem and it does seem to work surprisingly well. I am a bit concerned that there do appear to be like.........social stats? And time limits which means schedule planning which aren't always my FAVORITE part of Persona but I'm willing to give it a shot.
I’m glad I lived to see the era where Pat just puts his face in awkward places in all his thumbnails/is openly getting sponsored to advocate against safety
Since Pat is literally not allowed to say it, I’ll just let everyone know that this game will ALSO be available on PlayStation and PC. Microsoft has been paying ATLUS big bazonga bucks to pretend that its an Xbob exclusive.
A cast of characters in a SMT style game? No way! Buying it!
2:40:50 WAIT A DAMN MINUTE! King Hythlodaeus? More? As in "Thomas More", writer of "Utopia", where Hythlodaeus is a main character?
God damn it, even the world map looks like the illustration of Utopia. It always comes back to Utopia!
Holy shit the world map is literally the map from Utopia.
I love that it looks like all the Human designs are based on stuff from Hieronymus Bosch paintings. The first boss is in the bottom right corner of the centerpiece of "The Garden of Earthly Delights". With a few liberties taken of course, Bosch didn't paint it with knife feet, lol
You know, I didn't catch this stream live, not because I think Pat Stares At is a bad sponsor, no, He's a Perfect Vessel for Sponsoring Video Games. I didn't catch the stream, because I saw the pop-up and went "Oh shit, Demo?" and downloaded it myself.
In a stream with explicit instruction to avoid racism, it took less than an hour for a blackface mention. I expect no more from Pat xD
I hate how the name actually makes me MORE aware of the parallels to the real world, and all the metaphors it brings up. This is a wild feeling.
You think that people in this world cosplay Japanese Highschoolers the same way we cosplay fantasy characters?
Considering we will likely get dlc costumes from persona I'm gonna say yes.
Maybe not 'cosplay' in the traditional sense but it would be interesting to go to, say a Masquerade ball, in this world and everyone is just dressed like salarymen, police officers, and politicians.
Nah the funnier reality would be them cosplaying japanese salarymen
I played through this demo to completion and I've pre-ordered it. I know pre-ordering isn't good, but there was no way I was NOT going to get this. The artistic talent on display is enough for me to support this game. I want more games to look like this and sound like this. I appreciate good art.
Gee it’s almost like you have the right to spend money on things you want and you shouldn’t let losers online or corporations tell you otherwise.
As someone who's generally against pre-ordering, I think it's a little different if you've already played 8+ hours of the game.
How did i not know there was a demo for this game?! I'm counting down the days when i can just play it this weekend.
That custom intro though
The real metaphor were the friends we made along the way
The music in this game goes SO HARD and never stops. I was wandering down in the mines and it was sounding like I was going up against Anduin in Soverngarde.
I kind of wished i read the glossary, as I named the protagonist "Hythlos" not knowing the king was named Hytholdaeus lol so when the kings name was used a few hours after i set the protags name i felt kinda silly.
Hey man, Alexander the Great and Weird Al Yankovic both existed in our actual world (one of them still exists, even).
Honestly I named him Minato as that was the name I originally used for P3 protag and he kind of reminds me of him. His friend with his grey hair, long sword kind of reminds me of Yu Narukami from P4.
@@MrSammichMANOMNOMNOM Well Al in Weird Al means Alfred...which works in your favor I suppose. With similar names. We have a lot of names that end in "son" for example.
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I'm glad Im not the only one who saw the dialogue toggle and thought "Holy shit Atlus has finally caught up to the present".
I don't like it because I keep turing it on by accident. The hard toggle is better.
I actually had it in mind to name the character Eldren even before I realized his species is an Elda and they're called Eldans. So yeah, Eldren felt like it became even more fitting. The thought of the main representative of the species in the story having a similar name to the species itself had a nice touch to me.
I'm loving the battle music with the B-52s sound-alike singing apparent nonsense.
Its esperanto. The oldest artificial language
I MISSED THIS STREAM!? Oh man what a pain, I just got done with the demo but didn't "complete" it; it's stellar and I highly recommend it. Definitely a must buy later this month.
This game's OST and Art is Fire
The OST reminds me of Fire Emblem Three Houses.
It's funny that I listened to the first part of The Silmarillion audiobook by J.R.R Tolkien to understand that the music being the first magic in the world of this game is a reference to how the creation of the LOTR world started.
ITS A METAPHOR
"I recognize that fucking grid!"
Oh, they brought back the 3 physical types. Its not just physical but slash, bash, and pierce
I can't describe how happy it makes me they put the entire long ass onboarding section in a demo
Add on to the thing about the map. Countries didn't just hand out maps because if they fell into enemy hands they would be used against the Country. So that one map would be worth the lives of a whole platoon to reclaim if lost and if the solider lost it he (if not his whole house hold) would probably be executed or enslaved depending on the universe.
Who is Gallica's VA? I swear I recognize the voice, but I can't place it.
Morganna from p5
@@Mannihannibull Wrong, that's not Cassandra Lee Morris. It's Alejandra Reynoso. The rest of her work doesn't really sound like Gallica though, she's most well known as Sypha from the Castlevania netflix series and Lika from Pokemon Horizons.
@@Mannihannibull never played it - but, I *have* seen "Castlevania" in which she was Sypha. I sincerely appreciate the response, though!
@@Avengedtenfold Is she putting on an east-coast American accent in this game?
Neon from stranger of paradise
i dont think it's a coincidence that the MC in this game looks almost identical to Makoto in P3. i wonder if there will be a connection later. i know they like doing weird shit sometimes.
also, the fact the game is going so hard on "PLEASE, FOR FCK SAKE, NO RACE WAR SHIT PLEASE. DEAR GOD" while being a game almost entirely bout race wars, is the fcking best and i wish them the best of luck getting through this shit storm of comparisons later. QUICK, WHICH ARE THE HIDDEN KOREANS!?
"this bro is wearing magic headphones" here's the thing. this means Gallico is choosing the sound track. this girl hand picks the music for the bullshit we deal with. to put it into context: it's like if Mona, upon seeing Shindo, specifically chose rivers in the desert instantly. THIS FAIRY GIRL IS THE BEST ALREADY.
2:28:00 it took me this long to register the updated BRB screen, RIP bestest boy
As someone who only played Soul Reaver 2, I wasn't really all that confused by Defiance. At least I don't remember being confused.
If you like persona and SMT, you should buy this.
I named my Travel Twink Caim, which is the starkest opposite choice I could choose
That bit rate is killin me
Why did chat think that the writers of this game were trying to say that our irl/japan wasn't discriminatory ._.
from what i could find his cannon name is will. at least on the wiki
this demo totally goes further than this cave, right? I'm at the cave, already took down the big bad right away and got 2 other archetypes, is there MORE IN THE DEMO???
there's a lot more
So is there a Metephor for them never doing female protags?
It's a Hoshino game, he has extremely weird opinions about women and female characters.
@@Vanity0666 Of course, thats why if the next Persona has a Female character its gonna be a option BET because he's too much of a incel deep down to make a female only protag.
1:32:50 Pat, they're like 5 in this scene lmao
Pat is a knife-ear confirmed
It's amazing how modern demos are put together. In previous generations, they would just let you play through a sequence or two to get a feel for the gameplay. Ever since Lies of P, every demo I've played has let me play the first few hours of the full game. Pat is just barely at the halfway point here.
Dude forget about Lies of P, Square has been doing that with a lot of their Switch RPGs for years and the Dragon Quest XI demo had 10 hours and was what convinced me to get it after hating the original PS4 version.
Pixie Misty
YES! ff11 type elf!
1:33:57 Shoutout to Monkeyweed21 in the chat for "OH NO HE HAS ANIME TWINK DISEASE"
1:55:35 GOBLINS ATTACK
XBOB RISES!!!
I hate how Xbox notifications cover subtitles
Man i thought the Pat Fujoshi arc was a joke but I i guess not.
Shouldn't it be fudanshi since Pat is a dude?
@@Holycow8498 idk probably. I'm not up to date on BL lore.
I know this game isn't out yet, but I can't wait for its sequel: Simile: ReMyththical
Edit: Just watched 2:09:00. Lol
1:32:50 omg they were roommates
2:00:10 RIP racist soldier.
1:15:15 I wouldn't call people one step from shouting "FREAK" and throwing stones a microagression, that seems like just regular upfront racism.
The menus are beautiful as expected, but the actual game itself is kind of hideous.
Yeah texture resolution is really low for some reason, even on high. Not sure what the deal is. Art design is insanely good though.
As someone who has been avoiding all promos of this game, I was shocked by how profoundly ugly this game is lmao. I can't stand all the disruptive graphics either, it was enough to make me uninstall. Hopefully they eventually add an option to chill the fuck out on the animations.
No accounting for taste. Especially garbage taste.
Like yours.