Metaphor: ReFantazio is a sprawling, complex RPG. Our Metaphor ReFantazio beginners tips will help you start off right.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is a fantastic Persona-like romp through the fantasy genre. But the sheer scale of what’s on offer, combined with the limited number of in-game days to get everything done, means that if you want to do everything in one playthrough, you’re going to need to be efficient.
From making friends to cooking, cleaning, and crawling dungeons, there’s no shortage of things to do in your quest against the evil Count Louis. So, in order to help you get the most out of your time in the Kingdom of Euchronia, we’ve put together a list of tips and tricks to keep in mind as you first strike out in Grand Trad.
Here are 13 beginner’s tips you need to know before starting Metaphor: ReFantazio.There are two currencies, so manage your money
As with all RPGs these days, there are multiple different currencies you need to track in Metaphor. First and foremost, there’s cold hard cash (known as reeve). You use this for buying weapons, armor, potions and the like.
In Euchronia, the week is five days long. Make sure you do your shopping on every fifth day, Idlesday, when the entire kingdom puts on a discount. The days with sales are also marked in your calendar in the main menu.
If you’re short on reeve, you can sell items, beat enemies, or sell your second currency, MAG.
MAG is short for Magla (crystalised magic). Again, there are a few ways to get MAG: first and foremost as a combat reward, but also through saying the right things in conversation and, after the prologue concludes, interacting with the King’s Rock once per day.
Should you spend your MAG on buying reeve, though? Only in a pinch, because its real use is in unlocking new Archetypes and their abilities.Experiment with Archetypes
An Atlus game with different combat personas? Well, we never…
Your party members each awaken to a single Archetype (basically a Persona). To start with, these are things like Soldier, Knight, and Mage, but as you play on, you unlock things like the powerful Gunner Archetype, which offers ranged attacks, both in combat and while dungeon-crawling.
Once an Archetype is unlocked and the corresponding party member is added to your Followers, every other member of your troupe can learn it. While this offers huge flexibility in battle, teaching your party members new Archetypes is very expensive, sometimes costing tens of thousands of MAG. You will eventually unlock discounts as part of your friendship bonuses, so feel free to hold off until then if you want everyone to know everything.
That said, there there are actually a few clear best Archetypes, and unlocking the ultimate Archetype (the “royal” version) involves almost maxing out out 2-3 trees per character.You can inherit skills from other Archetypes
The first party member you pick up is Strohl, so we’ll use him as an example. Strohl’s Warrior Archetype specializes in physical, not magical combat. Obviously, you can turn Strohl into a Mage, but then you lose his other Archetype’s powers.
Fortunately, all is not lost. Once a character’s Archetype has learned an ability, you can pay MAG to unlock the ability for all other archetypes they have.
Bot, for example, is a weak fire-type attack that the Mage learns on unlocking. After a few level ups, it learns Blizz and Kande (ice and thunder, respectively).
For a measly 500 MAG, you can unlock each of these skills for use in each of Strohl’s other archetypes — once paid for, they’re yours!
Just be aware that this doesn’t unlock them for everyone else, so expect to pay a lot of MAG if you want everyone to know the really powerful stuff — up to 28,000 MAG for the most powerful passive skills.
You can add up to four skills per archetype, per character, by maxing out the corresponding Follower’s relationship rank.Don’t forget about your daily tasks
Once you’re out of the prologue, you unlock several things that you will want to interact with on an (almost) daily basis.
The first is the aforementioned King’s Rock, which gives you an amount of MAG based on your current popularity. Fortunately, these bonuses accumulate over time, so if you can’t interact with it every day (or you forget), you can collect multiple days’ worth at once.
The other unlocks are in the Gauntlet Runner, your means of travel across Euchronia. Aboard you have the toilet, the washroom and the pantry, among other amenities.
