Metaphor Director Rejects Corporate Games

Text on the meme

Games that 'look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom' aren't exciting or interesting to Metaphor: ReFantazio’s director News By Harvey Randall published 15 hours ago Katsura Hashino wants a game "to give me a glimpse of the humanity behind it".

What it means

A mock gaming-news screenshot quotes Metaphor: ReFantazio director Katsura Hashino criticizing games that feel designed by a corporate boardroom. The joke is that the headline sounds like a pointed rejection of bland, commercially engineered game design, while the quote praises games with visible human character and emotion.

Who

Katsura Hashino (橋野桂) — Metaphor: ReFantazio

Objects

news article screenshot / скриншот новостной статьи headline text / текст заголовка red news label / красная метка News byline / строка с автором article quotation / цитата из статьи gray background / серый фон black typography / чёрная типографика video game reference / отсылка к видеоигре CEO boardroom / зал заседаний руководителей quotation marks / кавычки