For fantasy JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona director gave himself a crash course featuring classics like The Lord of the Rings, but "if we tried to copy that it would just be a copy"

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However, he ultimately decided that imitating other fantasy worlds wasn’t the right direction for Metaphor.

“If we tried to copy that it would just be a copy.

So I thought: lets attempt to make a fantasy game that only we can make.”