is a fantastically busy RPG. There's so much to see and do that it can easily overwhelm players once it starts to openꦡ up. But even in the early hours, there are things worth knowing that won't necessarily be as transparent as one might prefer.

Of course, experimentation will typically pay off. Many of Metaphor's gameplay systems are 🦂solid, no matter which choices you make along the way. But the following beginner tips are designed to get you rearing and ready to go. Some are small, some are a bit bigger. None are mand🐻atory to know, but we hope they're all worth your while.

Save Your Money For Idlesday

We'll start with a strong suggestion for making the most of your hard-earned reeve. Early on, there's a good chance you'll feel consistently cash-strapped. You probably won't be able♒ to purchase every last thing you'd like for your team.

The game does inform you, upon the arrival of the first Idlesday after Grand Trad's shops are available, that now is the time to spend. Shops - even informants! - offer discounts on Idlesday, so yeah, it's a blessing.

Trouble is, it won't tell you this until a few days before Idlesday. If you feel the need for a few choice purchases, go right ahead. But to ease the burden of costly equipment, strongly consider holding off until then.

Unlock Purification ASAP

Speaking of blessings, the church will offer its purification services to enhance any weapons or armor designated as purifiable. What exactly is purification?

Well, by bringing Blessed Water as well as the rare equipment that's marked in the menu as suitable for the process, the Sanℱctifex priest will purify them to g🍒reater heights.

This doesn't take up your action slot for the day (or evening🧔), so do it whenever you'd like.

There's one catch: your Wisdom, a Royal Virtue, must reach the second rank, "Informed." This is easy to achieve; you'll only need about four Wisdom-based actions. Consider prioritizing these first and foremost.

You just so happen to require Wisdom's second rank to be able to speak with Brigitta once her quest unlocks in front of Grand Trad's Magic Igniter shop, so it's a two-birds-with-one-stone situation!

Stock Up On MP Restoration And Elemental Attack Items

If there are two types of consumable items that you ought to focus on above all else, we'd say they're Magla Pills (and their eventual superior versions) and items which cast elemental attacks on enemies.

The former are typically available in limited quantities. Not every item shop carries them, but many will. Peddlers may have them as well. As for the elemental items, your main source for these is Gloamhall in Grand Trad.

Gloamhall is only open at night. In other words, you'll have specific windows of opportunity within which to purchase these.

We put these both in the same tip section for a reason. MP is a hard resource to manage early on, and when your spellcasting Archetype(s) run out of it, you'll have a far harder time with certain enemies.

The elemental attack items won't help you to top off your HP, obviously. But what they can do is to supplement your MP-consuming spells. You'll find the longer dungeons in Metaphor: ReFantazio, like the will🎉 be more manageable with these on tap.

Diversify Archetype Growth (But Not Too Much)

So, Archetypes. You're going to want to spend some battling working on more than just one of them, even when you still have access to just a few. Each of these early picks: Seeker, Warrior, Knight, Mage, and Healer, are going to help out.

Strohl introduces the Warriorജ Archetype, while Hulkenberg brings with her the Knight. The protagonist's contribution is Seeker. The others will come🌞 swiftly enough.

Furthermore, you'll obtain rewards and follower rank progression with More in several cases. You also need to level up your Archetypes to reach their Adept-tier classes.

So... why, then, did we qualify this by saying you shouldn't go overboard? It's mainly so that you don't feel the need to take up hours upon hours on these. Before long, Hero's items can be acquired, often through More's requests and other activities.

These are limited, but they're quite handy. When you use one on a character, you will be prompted to choose an Archetype; that Archetype will then gain EXP. A boon, to be sure.

Don't Underestimate The Memorandum

This one's for fans of Metaphor: ReFantazio's narrative. Wh💫ich, if we're being frank, should hopefully apply to you - there's 🌟a lot of story in this game.

The Memorandum is essentially a codex, a dictionary, whatever you'd like to call it. It keeps tabs (literally) on Nature, Magic, History, People, and Culture. It also fills up fast.

The Memorandum can shine intriguing light on many aspects of Metaphor's world🍃. It isn't simply text; it's ♌a guide to, well, everything. Except the stuff our guides are here for, anyway.

Set Dialogue To Auto Or To Display All At Once

This last tip's hardly the most important, but it can be a heck of a help nonetheless. In Metaphor: ReFantazio, conversations involving dialogue selection options don't display those options on the screen until after the character's current dialogue text is completed.

What does this mean, in practice? You may find yourself accidentally picking the top option without realizing it i🤡f you ever press the conf🦋irm button in preparation for moving to the next text window.

The easiest way to avoid this mishap is to set dialogue boxes to move forward to the next automatically, in which case they won't keep going until you've made your choice.

But if you'd prefer to do it manually, head into the options menu, and swap the dialogue display to show all at once.

Again, not a huge deal, so long as you never press that confirm button ahead of schedule. Yet as silly 🎃as this all sounds, you might well see what we mean!