While there are some small but notable icon changes, the Switch 2's main menu, for the most part, takes most of its cues from the home screen design on Switch 1.

Metaphor is developed by Atlus, and it’s a spiritual successor of sorts to the Persona series. Both are turn-based RPGs, but Metaphor shifts the setting from modern-day Japan to a new fantasy ...

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.

Fans and game developers are pointing to this as the reason why the studio's menu design for Metaphor: ReFantazio is top notch: "Atlus continues to pay their UI designers well and their UI ...

Unfortunately, there haven’t been many games since Dead Space’s initial release in 2008 that have attempted to replicate, let alone improve on, the game’s approach to diegetic interfaces.