Metaphor: ReFantazio takes a lot of inspiration from Persona, but that’s not always to its benefit. Borrowing the concepts of Personas (which it calls Archetypes), Social Links/Confidants (which it calls Bonds), and awakenings (which it calls…awakenings), Metaphor isn’t exactly a Persona sequel, but with little more than a name change, it certainly could be. It’s not just a carbon copy of the rest of the series, either; in many ways, it builds on classic franchise tropes, blending Persona and the wider Shin Megami Tensei series to create the next evolution of the Atlus formula.