Metaphor: Right Wing Masterpiece

[RogueLikely]

What a deep game. At first, you're lead to believe Metaphor is unbearably woke, with its constant hamfisted dialogue about racism and communistic ideals. You're lead to think its a complex RPG that requires you to build a balanced team, constantly tweaking it to overcome tough as nails encounters that force you to swap your strategies to exploit weaknesses and cover your own. All while you're being slowly re-educated to think Louis is wrong and that the MC is cool and not an effeminate twink.

But then, like 2% into the game you get the Merchant Archetype and suddenly the true Message of Metaphor becomes apparent. Through the power of capitalism you immediately make everything I wrote in the first paragraph entirely irrelevant, as you fill your party with waifu's dressed in school girl outfits, all of which are powered by fat rich bearded dudes. You then can win the rest of the game by pressing a single button, buying out every shop as all the poor plebeians around you ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan about homeless dog people or whatever.

The modern gaming industry has wanted to "subvert our expectations" now for over a decade, and finally they've done it. Metaphor is a triumph of Right Wing conservative ideals. I can't wait to see how my team of rich elites improve the lives of everyone around them through their hard work and willingness to chase that almighty dollar.

[Mayo]

But isn't the fact that the capitalist fat men are clearly Middle-Eastern a Left Wing statement in itself? Does this cause the right Wing leaning of the Merchant Archetype to rebalance into firmly Centre Wing?

[REBirthTheEdge]

Oh well, I hope they make a balance patch for the Merchant team.

[RogueLikely]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mayo:

But isn't the fact that the capitalist fat men are clearly Middle-Eastern a Left Wing statement in itself? Does this cause the right Wing leaning of the Merchant Archetype to rebalance into firmly Centre Wing?

They also have big noses. What did Atlus mean by this? 🤔🤔🤔

[RogueLikely]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von REBirthTheEdge:

Oh well, I hope they make a balance patch for the Merchant team.

Spoken like a true commie. When you can't win in the free market, you go to the man to have it regulated. Sad.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RogueLikely:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von REBirthTheEdge:

Oh well, I hope they make a balance patch for the Merchant team.

Spoken like a true commie. When you can't win in the free market, you go to the man to have it regulated. Sad.

I'm Vietnamese so yes.

I heard the other OP class is the Faker, and the Thief is strong as well, so maybe...

[ZiffyHead]

Now that you are rich and have so much wealth, you will surely trickle your prosperity down to the rest of us!

Golden showers for everybody!

[RogueLikely]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ZiffyHead:

Now that you are rich and have so much wealth, you will surely trickle your prosperity down to the rest of us!

Golden showers for everybody!

Obviously. I don't know how the story will end, but it sure seems like a billionaire is going to save the day, become the leader, and make everything better for everyone. Very similar to real life.

[Sephiroth]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RogueLikely:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von REBirthTheEdge:

Oh well, I hope they make a balance patch for the Merchant team.

Spoken like a true commie. When you can't win in the free market, you go to the man to have it regulated. Sad.

Spoken like a stereotypical US american from during the cold war. Everything that doesn't allow the market to be completely free must be communism.

[RogueLikely]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sephiroth:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RogueLikely:

Spoken like a true commie. When you can't win in the free market, you go to the man to have it regulated. Sad.

Spoken like a stereotypical US american from during the cold war. Everything that doesn't allow the market to be completely free must be communism.

Right you are, Pinko. God Bless America.

[Steve]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von REBirthTheEdge:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RogueLikely:

Spoken like a true commie. When you can't win in the free market, you go to the man to have it regulated. Sad.

I'm Vietnamese so yes.

I heard the other OP class is the Faker, and the Thief is strong as well, so maybe...

I kinda feel like finding OP class combos is part of the fun in a game like this.
Sort of like Baldur's Gate 3's multi-classing or a card game like Yu-Gi-Oh!'s deckbuilding.
Class-building is a lot of fun when you get to make/invent some crazy things with it imo lol.

Though I do see people complain about the Merchant on here a fair bit, so maybe that took it too far idk.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Steve:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von REBirthTheEdge:

I'm Vietnamese so yes.

I heard the other OP class is the Faker, and the Thief is strong as well, so maybe...

I kinda feel like finding OP class combos is part of the fun in a game like this.
Sort of like Baldur's Gate 3's multi-classing or a card game like Yu-Gi-Oh!'s deckbuilding.
Class-building is a lot of fun when you get to make/invent some crazy things with it imo lol.

Though I do see people complain about the Merchant on here a fair bit, so maybe that took it too far idk.

Yeah, but a bit balance would be fine for the Merchant.

It's easy enough, just make the Almighty coin attack having a low chance to hit OR take a percentage of your own money, and of course, decrease the money drop for the merchant.

I fear it could be a legit bug.

[Pencillus Sedatus]

show me a merchant team that works mid game or late game. lol, I played now near end game, and I can pretty sure 100% that merchant team is only OP in early games

[RogueLikely]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Pencillus Sedatus:

show me a merchant team that works mid game or late game. lol, I played now near end game, and I can pretty sure 100% that merchant team is only OP in early games

You just move to Tycoon. Slap OP passives from other classes onto it. Continue face rolling the game. EZ PZ

[Mayo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Pencillus Sedatus:

show me a merchant team that works mid game or late game. lol, I played now near end game, and I can pretty sure 100% that merchant team is only OP in early games

It's a specific combination of items - the Fortune God's Abacus (x3 Gold damage), with the Gambler's Manual (x2 damage to critical hits).

Without the Fortune God's Abacus, Tycoons are pretty mediocre since Gold Rush just doesn't do enough damage, even with the Gambler's Manual. With both, however, it's a straight 6x multiplier, before buffs/debuffs/charge. Thankfully, it's easy enough to steal one from a unique enemy in the Gunner Bond sidequest (which becomes available at the same time Tycoon becomes available) so apart from that one minor enemy fight, you can have the abacus on your main Tycoon right after you unlock it.

[Maximizer]

If it is true then it looks like it has some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ writing.... I still have it on my wish list but there's so much conflicting data, I'm getting to verge of dropping it entirely.