Digital Foundry: Metaphor ReFantazio - Fantasy Persona... But What About Performance?

[John Elden Ring]

- Striking visual presentation in terms of UI, menu's etc.
- Roughly 80 hour runtime
- Not a lot, if any, enemy model reuse unlike many Atlus games, a lot of new enemies.
- Lighting in smaller areas looks good, but open area lighting can look flat
- Not exactly up to current gen lighting standards overall

- Overall rendering tech still reminiscent of PS3 titles (damn)
- No baked GI, PBR, TAA etc kind of features common in current gen games
- Visual features give the game a bit of a dated feel with low quality textures
- Relatively poor image quality. No anti aliasing and high contrast art style makes it look like an aliased mess, a temporal AA technique could fix this
- PC version can run at high resolutions but doesn't exactly look that much cleaner than console

PS5:
- Unstable 60fps with low 40's at worst
- Renders at roughly 1656p (no mention of DRS)
- Combat can also drop to the 40's, so do indoor dungeons etc
- Game seems to be primarily GPU dependent
- DF thinks the game doesn't use culling properly which causes this kind of drops
- PS4 Pro version of Metaphor runs at a locked 60fps when played on a PS5, but drops resolution (1080p with lower resolution assets, closer draw distance for NPCs etc.

- 120hz support present in consoles without any visual downgrades when 120hz on system level is selected
- No LFC support so drops can still feel jarring.
- The 'nuclear option' is to wait for PS5 Pro

Xbox:
- DF did not have access to the final code so they only had the demo code to compare
- Performance profile is similar to PS5 in both 60hz and 120hz modes
- Series S drops to 1080p with even the UI dropping resolution
- On Series S, Performance drops more than SX and PS5
- VRR does not work properly in the demo on SX where it works on Series S and PS5

 

[mibu no ookami]

This is one of the reasons why I'm stunned to see the reviews I'm seeing.

Not many reviews have come in and I'm still thinking that this s number is going to sink if more reviewers actually play it.

 

[Shmunter]

Devs are simply not giving a shit anymore

 

[Bryank75]

Apparently no geometry culling... Developers are getting much worse at their jobs as time goes by.

 

[akira__]

Watch Oliver gloss over how all the "faults" of the PS5 version are worse in the Series X version. Which is logical since it's a port.

He calls visuals identical, yet the shimmering and image quality, mirco stutters are so bad on Series X that he has to hide it, and only shows it for about 1 minute in a 22-minute video.

Also where is John?

 

[quest4441]

Bruh who cares this weeb shit will hardly sell a couple of million, people dont finish the fucking tutorials in persona games let alone play for 100+ hrs

 

[akira__]

Bruh who cares this weeb shit will hardly sell a couple of million, people dont finish the fucking tutorials in persona games let alone play for 100+ hrs

Well, xbox did. They bought the marketing rights. And Oliver of DF cared enough to blatantly lie again.

 

[TrishaCat]

Bruh who cares this weeb shit will hardly sell a couple of million, people dont finish the fucking tutorials in persona games let alone play for 100+ hrs

Note: I already finished Nocturne's PS2 version, which is why the hour count is lower here. Still playing P5.
Granted I also finished P4G's Vita version, but P4G is addictive so I didn't mind playing through the whole thing again x3

 

[quest4441]

Note: I already finished Nocturne's PS2 version, which is why the hour count is lower here. Still playing P5.
Granted I also finished P4G's Vita version, but P4G is addictive so I didn't mind playing through the whole thing again x3

Good for you bro, I was talking about normal functioning adults who dont put up with 100+ hrs of weeb shit

 

[Kokoloko]

For a game that runs on PS4, isnt a graphical powerhouse and turned based. There are no reasons why this doesnt run 60fps on PS5 and Xbox X smoothly

 

[saltyashell]

A game with PS3 era graphics should be running at 120 fps on modern consoles. It's not even hitting a stable 60.

 

[anonpuffs]

Yeah the poor performance is inexcusable, i remember p5 stuttering on the ps4 as well. Fuck atlus, you had so many sales with p5, hire better coders goddamnit

 

[Hatefield]

They seriously doing performance on a weeb game?