Why is this game so ugly?

[Danq]

Stylized graphics can look wonderful. This ain it bro.

The texturing work here especially is absolutely horrible. Among the worst I have ever seen. for the "anime" look. They literally used photo-based textures and just filtered them in photoshop with "paint doubs". They are also low resolution. I cant believe a game that is know for the "style" of persona is this ugly. Also it runs like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? The UI is going for the classic Persona look, which is fine but holy crap what a mess the overall presentation is. They just added the weirdest color filters on top of the whole shait and called it a day. Ugh.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by ChiefCornFlake:

I agree. The textures are awful for a 2024 game. Sadly it seems that this is a console port so we also get the bad textures on PC. The game is using the same engine as Persona 5 so its basically an engine that was used for PS3 games, this is why the anti aliasing is terrible and the game runs pretty bad when it has visuals from the PS3/PS4 generation.

The game is a lot of fun and very well made but its a technical mess. Atlus has since moved on to Unreal Engine for Shin Megami Tensei V and Persona 3 Reload and those games look a lot better than Metaphor, but sadly this game started development like 8 years ago and clearly went through development hell that it ended up borrowing a lot of mechanics from the Persona games.

Atlus will either need to put out a few patches to fix these issues and add a 4K Texture Pack Free DLC or Modders will need to do it for them, modders have already made a few quality of life fixes for the game already.

Most of you have 6GB or 8GB GPUs its not the consoles holding gaming back, it's you.

[yoship]

For those finding the game blurry or muddy, maybe my observations could be of some help. I tested in the demo, but the full game seems to be similar. My display is 1440p. All settings are maxed. Do keep in mind I'm very early in the game, so it may not hold for all game environments further on.

Game resolution set to 1440p appears soft and blurry on my display. It seems despite maxing out settings, the game may not turn on textures to maximum at this resolution. Using Nvidia's DLDSR (or DSR) and using 4K resolution makes things look a lot better, even the AA is much less visible. Reducing AA also seems to help resolve the finer details much better.

Alternatively, increase the in-game Super Resolution setting to 125% or 150% or further. Both these approaches make the game look much better, although the DLDSR approach seems to yield slightly better visual results.

If your card still has some juice in it, combine the 4K DLDSR with 125% or 150% resolution scaling- this is the setting I'm using. The AA is pretty much gone at this setting, and the game looks beautiful and sharp. Of course, this tanks the fps, so this is for those who are satisfied with a lower fps cap.

[brokensword101]

Ok, i don't want to bash the game graphics, but for the graphices that like the ps3 era, the game put a lot of load to the gpu, i have 3080 and the amount of load this game put on my gpu is insane, yes if the game graphic is something like cyberpunk 2077 yes this is normal, but for this graphics absolutely not, the game port for pc is really trash.

[Griever]

The resolution of the game isn't high.
I'm not a graphics expert but I think this is it.
On PC this is fixed with a mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/metaphorrefantazio/mods/25
I don't understand why Atlus released without this, especially on the PS5.
It's definitely a game made for PS4 gen basically.

[max e]

It's due to Atlus using their outdated Persona 5 engine from the PS3-era and plopping open areas with no engine work to handle them (such as using a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ culling system). So the game's overall fidelity is not high nor is the engine really capable of it. By PC standards though, it's a complete joke because the Persona 5 Royal port was pretty good with different AA options and toggles such as shadow quality. This only have Ambient Occlusion, render scale, and an AA implementation that still doesn't do a lot. They didn't implement a DXGI model into it which is optional in directx11 games so the borderless does not work with G-sync and the fullscreen mode crashes my game half the time if i alt tab. I'd install a mod called MetaphoFix which allows you to edit some stuff but it's not perfect.

[Dregora]

You're ugly.

[Катюша]

Atlus games are always lower budget affairs. I think this is them just cutting costs.

[Sylph]

looks great when you aren't on a potato.

[Gus]

Don't worry, it grows on you, the camera shots helps a lot

[Syynx]

Originally posted by brokensword101:

Ok, i don't want to bash the game graphics, but for the graphices that like the ps3 era, the game put a lot of load to the gpu, i have 3080 and the amount of load this game put on my gpu is insane, yes if the game graphic is something like cyberpunk 2077 yes this is normal, but for this graphics absolutely not, the game port for pc is really trash.

This is the only game I have that keeps my 4070 TI under 99-100% load at all times, the poor thing :c

Even Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk with ray tracing aren't as hard on my GPU as this game

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Syynx:

Originally posted by brokensword101:

Ok, i don't want to bash the game graphics, but for the graphices that like the ps3 era, the game put a lot of load to the gpu, i have 3080 and the amount of load this game put on my gpu is insane, yes if the game graphic is something like cyberpunk 2077 yes this is normal, but for this graphics absolutely not, the game port for pc is really trash.

This is the only game I have that keeps my 4070 TI under 99-100% load at all times, the poor thing :c

Even Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk with ray tracing aren't as hard on my GPU as this game

Pretty sure that just means they're not using it fully.

[Syynx]

Originally posted by Катюша:

Atlus games are always lower budget affairs. I think this is them just cutting costs.

Low budget games should have low budget prices

[Johnathon Fortnite]

Originally posted by Syynx:

Originally posted by Катюша:

Atlus games are always lower budget affairs. I think this is them just cutting costs.

Low budget games should have low budget prices

Yeah you'd think that lmao. It's a little too expensive (especially on the ps5) for what it is

[Ralph Nader]

Had to use reshade with some of it's AA to fix it, but it definitely looks much much better.

[Ralph Nader]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by Syynx:

This is the only game I have that keeps my 4070 TI under 99-100% load at all times, the poor thing :c

Even Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk with ray tracing aren't as hard on my GPU as this game

Pretty sure that just means they're not using it fully.

Yea... you want your computer to use 99% of your GPU. That's what it's supposed to do.