Metaphor: ReFantazio launched final week to unanimous crucial acclaim, which might be not shocking: its famed director Katsura Hashino commandeered Persona 5. Following the success of Persona 5, Hashino shaped a brand new Atlus arm referred to as Studio Zero in 2016 to work on Metaphor: ReFantazio (then referred to 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 sport. 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 standard strategy. “I do not actually give it some thought as a person,” he mentioned. “I have a look at Atlus as an entire and take into consideration what our crew ought to create. First, I need our customers to be joyful, after which I need the corporate to be joyful too. That is how I at all times work”.
(He additionally works in line with the logic that he does not need his video games to “appear to be they have 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 a substitute, 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 needs that. I do not know if I need that.
That mentioned, given the early success of Metaphor—it bought 1,000,000 copies in its first day, which is a large 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.
