Metaphor: ReFantazio launched final week to unanimous vital acclaim, which might be not stunning: its famed director Katsura Hashino commandeered Persona 5. Following the success of Persona 5, Hashino fashioned a brand new Atlus arm referred to as Studio Zero in 2016 to work on Metaphor: ReFantazio (then often known as Zero Re Fantasy), which concerned leaving Persona within the fingers of P-Studio.
In a brand new machine-translated Famitsu interview shared with Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, Hashino revealed Studio Zero is already engaged on a brand new recreation. Requested what the studio will transfer to after Metaphor, Hashino replied “Ah, they’ve already began”.
Requested if he was helming the brand new venture, Hashino seems to take the common-or-garden strategy. “I do not actually give it some thought as a person,” he stated. “I have a look at Atlus as a complete and take into consideration what our staff ought to create. First, I would like our customers to be completely satisfied, after which I would like the corporate to be completely satisfied too. That is how I all the time work”.
(He additionally works in keeping with the logic that he does not need his video games to “seem like they had been designed by a bunch of individuals in a CEO boardroom,” which explains why we get bosses like Homo Avades and never only a chopper or dragon, or one thing).
Hashino goes on to reiterate Studio Zero’s position within the labyrinthine Atlus machine. It wasn’t based simply to make Metaphor: ReFantazio; as an alternative, it is “a spot for brand spanking new endeavors that calls itself Studio Zero”. So it is unclear whether or not we’ll be getting extra Metaphor or one thing else fully. Maybe a Catherine sequel? I do not know who desires that. I do not know if I would like that.
That stated, given the early success of Metaphor—it offered 1,000,000 copies in its first day, which is a big quantity coming from a studio nonetheless thought of obscure within the west a decade in the past—I would not be shocked if it was spun off into its personal ongoing collection.
