Sega announced that the RPG "Metaphorical Fantasy: ReFantazio" developed by ATLUS's STUDIO ZERO won the highest honor in the annual work department - the "Grand Prize" in Japan's largest game award "Japan Game Awards 2025".
This work has attracted much attention before its release, and won the "Future Department Award" at the Japan Game Awards for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024.After its release, the score on the international review website "Metacritic" was as high as 94 points (PlayStation 5 version), and it also received many high scores and praise on other platforms.
In the world's largest game awards "The Game Awards 2024" held at the end of last year, this game was nominated for 6 awards, including "Best of the Year", and finally won the best awards in three categories: "Best Role-Playing Game", "Best Narrative" and "Best Art Direction".The work has swept the world's major game awards and won the support and love of a large number of players.
In addition, to commemorate the first anniversary of the release of this game, a message video from the game’s creative director Katsura Hashino and character designer Soejima Nagiki has been released, as well as a newly drawn commemorative illustration by Soejima Nagiki.
Video message from Katsura Hashino and Nariki Soejima:
All newly drawn illustrations of the protagonist, Garika, Stroll, and Hulkenberg by Seiki Soejima have been revealed!
Record time-lapse video of painting:
"Metaphorical Fantasy: ReFantazio ~ Prologue Trial Version ~" is available for free
Players can play the complete prologue of this game in the free trial version on each platform at any time. The data saved in the trial version can be inherited to the official version. Welcome to try it!
※Some contents of the trial version are different from the official version.
※Players can play the trial version multiple times.
Introduction to the work "Metaphorical Fantasy: ReFantazio"
A new fantasy-style RPG created by the production team that has produced "Persona 3", "Persona 4" and "Persona 5".
The story takes place in a world where magic exists and life is threatened by alien monsters "human beings".
The protagonist shoulders the mission of lifting the death curse for his childhood friend the prince, participates in the election of the next king of the kingdom, and embarks on a journey to explore the vast world with his companions.
The combat style of this game combines action elements and turn-based command combat, and adopts the epoch-making "FAST & SQUAD" system.It not only brings a refreshing action experience, but also has the strategy and tension to target weaknesses.
In addition, after the protagonist forms friendship with supporters during the journey, he can awaken the "Aki State" of more than 40 professions and use the unique abilities of these "Aki States".In this game, players can enjoy a highly customized and in-depth combat experience.
Creator team
Creative Director: Katsura Hashino (representative works "Shin Megami Tensei III -NOCTURNE", "Persona 3", "Persona 4", "Persona 5")
Character Design: Nariki Soejima (representative works "Persona 3", "Persona 4", "Persona 5")
Music composer: Meguro Shoji (representative works "Shin Megami Tensei III -NOCTURNE", "Persona 3", "Persona 4", "Persona 5")
Concept art: Kazuma Koda (representative work "NieR:Automata")
"Iron Armored Chariot" prototype design: Yamashita Ikuto (representative work "Neon Genesis Evangelion")
"Archid State" design assistance: Hinata Yuji (representative work "The Labyrinth of the World Tree" series)
