Metaphor Re:Fantazio

did the Dragon Temple today, such a fantastic dungeon. it absolutely blew my mind when



well played, ATLUS. Such a cool nod to your past

there are a lot of very good items on the floor with the entrance to the boss room, worth exploring the whole area. the enemies there hit very hard though

I'm on what I'm assuming is the last stretch before the final fight. Wandering around the place trying to get the last few follower ranks finished and get the last royal virtue maxed. I've chosen pretty poorly in how to spend a lot of days, but it's looking like I should be able to get them all ticked off.

Found out that I missed a book, so gave up on chasing achievements other than these two.

Made the mistake of wandering into the tower south of the island as the first thing I did coming into the endgame and eventually had to admit defeat and run away licking my wounds. That boss certainly isn't fucking about!

I was on the fence about buying this, but then I thought I'd give Persona 5 another shot.. as I have it already.

I found that every time I snuck a look at a guide. Most of them expect you to have the ultimate class for each archetype unlocked the very first moment it possibly becomes available, which just isn't going to happen unless you're following a day by day guide to the letter to unlock max follower ranks asap.

I spent a pretty dull couple of hours grinding A-EXP yesterday as I'm clearly not ready for the last side boss before the point of no return. Kind of kills the enjoyment of the game and I'm more than ready for it to all be over with now.

The quest in a side dungeon was pretty well designed into getting me to realise that it's actually ok to have 2 of the same archtype in your party at once. If the enemies are impervious to physical damage then you gotta go double mage to get multi hit spells to exploit those weaknesses.

Just finished, 78 and a half hours and this is genuinely not just game of the year, it's game of the generation and frankly should be held up alongside all time classics. I think this might be the perfect game for me, I think also I'll need a break from games for the rest of the year because everything will look shit in comparison.

I have resisted buying this so far, I have finally stopped preordering every Atlus game, not having time to play it and then the deluxe version comes out with loads of extra content. I remember them saying P5 wasn't going to be like that, but of course, the usual happens. I did actually finish P5 at least. SMT V being my most recent buy it twice experience. At least catching up with the Trails seies and them being so old I know what is coming for the next 8 games or so...

I did have a small look at the demo for Metaphor, but only up to the city.

The mage's hero passive kind of pales in insignificance once you unlock a few MP regen passives. Would've been nice if hero passives upgraded as you unlock more of the archetype tree, as it really needed to be +2 or +3 MP to remain relevant later in the game.

But yeah, that archetype is nuts! The main attack can be extremely useful too (I had a party made up entirely of that archetype at one point)

Two things I wish I'd known before starting:

1. Although the game obviously wants you to swap archetypes on your characters, there's actually no downside to keeping characters on archetypes they've mastered, because no matter what tier archetype they're using, once they've hit max level on it they'll overlevel it every 1000 AXP they get, which gives you can item you can use to give 1000 AXP to another archetype. So you don't have to switch, you can just level them in the background using the item, meaning you can always use whats right for the dungeon etc than forcing yourself to use something just because you need the AXP for it to level it up to unlock a certain skill inherit or prerequisite for another archetype.

2. Every character obviously has their "primary" line that they're associated with, and you should probably at the very least complete those archetypes, but it's worth looking up what their additional requirements are, along with any pre-requisite archetypes for those (ie, one character's needs rank 15 Magic Knight iirc, but I'd not really used them that way, let alone a mage character, but Magic Knight also needs rank 10 Mage) so you can tick them off early before spreading skills around. It'll also give you a clue as to what the game actually feels that character is best suited for.

There's one character I didn't use much and didn't really know what to do with them; now at the end I can see what the general idea with them was and it was a ballache getting all that stuff unlocked later.



I'm nearly finished with the game I think, fair to say it's pretty easy maxing all the bonds in time etc. I finished my last one with something like 18 days of free time left. I think if anyone's looking for a rule of thumb on free time, I'd recommend the following priority order:

1. Side quests with a lower or equal difficulty than the current main dungeon objective (this is usually like, all of them)
4. Bond level ups
5. Royal virtue increases

But also check the pantry daily and use the toilet for a free luck stat boost on dates ending in 5/0.

The scaling kinda changes with the archetypes over time, the later archetypes tend to need around 4-5x the xp for each rank relative to the same rank in the earlier ones, but the archetype xp from battles feels like its only around 2-3x, so it starts to take a noticeably long time. It does help you steamroll through the tier 1 archetypes at least relatively quicky, but once you start to need a random tier 2 archetype just to unlock a t3 and it can be a bit of a pain, especially if you don't have the t1.