Metaphor: ReFantazio launched final week to unanimous crucial 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 known as Studio Zero in 2016 to work on Metaphor: ReFantazio (then generally 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 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 mission, Hashino seems to take the standard method. “I do not actually give it some thought as a person,” he stated. “I take a look at Atlus as a complete and take into consideration what our workforce ought to create. First, I would like our customers to be glad, after which I would like the corporate to be glad too. That is how I all the time work”.
(He additionally works in line with the logic that he does not need his video games to “appear 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 new endeavors that calls itself Studio Zero”. So it is unclear whether or not we’ll be getting extra Metaphor or one thing else totally. 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 bought 1,000,000 copies in its first day, which is a large quantity coming from a studio nonetheless thought-about obscure within the west a decade in the past—I would not be shocked if it was spun off into its personal ongoing collection.