The first reviews of Silent Hill 2 and Metaphor: ReFantazio have been released

The first reviews of Silent Hill 2 and Metaphor: ReFantazio have been published.

Both games were reviewed in this week’s issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu, which were later posted online by Ryokutya2098. Famitsu’s scoring system sees 4 staff members play the game and give a score, which is combined to give each game an overall score out of 40.

Metaphor: ReFantazio received 9/9/10/9 from four reviewers, giving the game a total score of 37/40.

According to Famitsu, the game takes 80 hours to complete, or over 100 including side activities. Excerpts from the translated review claim that “the gameplay itself is almost the same as the Persona series” and that “the freshness of the presentation is on a different level.”

Silent Hill 2 received an overall score of 35/40, with each individual score breaking down into 8/9/9/9. The game takes 16 to 18 hours to complete, according to the magazine. A translated excerpt from this review states: “The feeling of realism and dread brought by the magnificent visuals and sound is incredible. »

The Silent Hill 2 remake releases October 8 on PS5 and PC.

VGC’s recent Silent Hill 2 hands-on preview said the game is reminiscent of Capcom’s recent remakes of its Resident Evil games.

“What is crucial to the health of the series is that Silent Hill 2 feels like it will be exactly the kind of boost that will put the series back in fashion,” we wrote.

“Comparisons between Resident Evil remakes will likely be inevitable, but is that a bad thing when Capcom’s latest efforts have been just as defining for the modern survival horror genre as Resident Evil and Silent Hill were to the emerging era of the genre?

Metaphor: ReFantazio should be released on October 11.

A hands-on preview from VGC said that Metaphor: ReFantazio “is going to make waiting for Persona 6 so much easier.”

“It’s not a Persona clone, but the team took everything you’d expect from a Persona title and brought it to their new world of Metaphor: ReFantazio,” we wrote.

“If the future of Atlus flips between a metaphor and a personality every few years, we’re all in on it.”