Metaphor: ReFantazio’s demo reveals the most vitally important information: The protagonist’s canonical name

I take real beef with Atlus’s continued tradition of not giving its protagonist an actual damn name. It was all fine and dandy back when JRPGs had no voice acting, but that’s not the case anymore! Even back when Square Enix refused to slap everyone with the name Tidus in Final Fantasy 10—though, perhaps that spared us of the atrocious “official” pronunciation—it annoyed the hell out of me.

I’m very much a canon name gamer. I’m not here calling my protagonists Farts McGee or John Persona. I want that official name, baby. I got baited in Persona 5 when the manga declared Joker’s name to be Akira Kurusu, only for every subsequent piece of media to decide it was Ren Amamiya instead. I refuse to let that happen to me with Metaphor: ReFantazio, the latest Atlus JRPG to give us an unnamed hero and declare we do it ourselves.