Koji Ise, lead UI designer on hit 2024 JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, joined Atlus in 2018 after spending a while working on website design in the advertisement space, as he explained at a GDC 2025 talk.

Speaking to GamesRadar+ after GDC 2025, Metaphor's lead UI designer Koji Ise said he was at least partly inspired by another fantasy PS2 roleplaying game, this time from a quarter century ago ...

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Civilization 7 currently has 3,231 reviews on Steam, and even many of the positive reviews note that while the core game might be enjoyable, the interface is a capital-P Problem. The devs at ...