I WILL SEE THEM AGAIN - Metaphor: ReFantazio - 26

[@NicoB]

More: I finally understand who I really am. Bizzle: Really? More: Yes...behold my true form. *grows a long nose, loses his hair, eyes bug out Bizzle: .... Bizzle: Sorry but this isn't ringing any bells.

[@QuizMasterEntertainment]

It'll be really funny if that actually happens

[@Doze1202]

Plateau: Rowr…(Now I reveal MY true form) *transforms into an anthropomorphic black and white cat dressed like a bandit * Plateau: Now I’m NOT a cat! Bizzle: But you’re STILL a cat!

[@jameslawrenson1208]

I think Metaphor Refantazio is in its own universe.

[@Kimo-Cyrus]

(spawner breaks) Nico: dang it strohl your not supposed to break those! Strohl: ME!? It was junah that broke it! Junah: (looking away humming a tune innocently, knowing what she did) Nico: Don't pass the buck dude junah would never do that, right junah? Junah: (thumbs up) Nico: see, now think about what you did Strohl: I hate all of you...

[@thoughtsofaleo2916]

21:10: "Wait how do you even have a helmet? Didn't think thing shatter in the cutscene?" You could say that that cutscene was just....a metaphor...

[@mastermindmonokuma]

To answer your question about More's final perk. I mentioned before that Archetypes in the game are treated as equipment of sorts, added on top of your base stats+equipment stats. Most of these are + values, like how mage gets a lot of points to magic, though there are also minus to stats to whatever the class is not good at or 0 entirely for those. More's final perk adds +3 to every single stat for the equipped Archetype. So for example: if an archetype gives the following stats: +5 Strength, +0 Magic, +2 Endurance, -3 Agility and -5 Luck with the perk this becomes: +8 Strength, +3 Magic, +5 Endurance, +0 Agility and -2 Luck. In short it removes almost all demerits and even improves the stat gains. Once again these are added on top of base stats and equipment.

[@mastermindmonokuma]

Today the Metaphor manga released. And boy did they change some things in interesting ways. Instead of meeting Hulkenberg on the wagon Will meets Strohl?! And the entire Northern fortress is skipped, instead Will and Strohl help save Maria from a would be kidnapper. Which leads to them meeting up with Grius at the inn and leads directly to the funeral. No awakenings yet either. The funniest change.....is that Will is a snarky asshole, who kinda enjoys picking fights with almost everybody and somewhat enjoys bullying Strohl verbally.

[@edmg7]

I think I prefer the game version, but I do like that take on Will.

[@mastermindmonokuma]

@@edmg7 Its mainly done because with manga first chapters most of them need to get to the meat of the plot asap. It also makes the story less predictable for players of the game which in itself is welcome. Like i dont watch/read adaptions of games to see the exact same thing, i watch them to see all the extra stuff they can add or do with the setting, and so far its doing that very well.

[@pn2294]

@@mastermindmonokumanot to mention that they don’t need a real tutorial

[@ArnnFrost]

Snarky asshole? THIS boy? O.o how?!

[@Jay-ch5xu]

I like them diverging from the story. If it's too similar, I'd think 'Why bother reading this when I could play the game?'

[@DRAG0NSPIRIT10]

There actually is an optional Gauntlet Runner fight you can do. There is a candidate hanging out on the roads leading out of Brilehaven, so if you travel from Brilehaven to another area, you can fight them. I recommend doing it for the fluff dialogue (but you don't need to save it) because it's the first Gauntlet Runner fight you can do whilst being protected by the Royal magic.

[@GeonamicWarrior]

WHAT? I had no idea there was a gauntlet runner fight at this point in the game. If NicoB doesn't do it by the deadline, can you reply to me to spoil what it is?

[@DRAG0NSPIRIT10]

@@GeonamicWarrior Sure, if Nico doesn't see/do it by the time the deadline is up I'll reply to you here and tell you. I don't blame you for not realizing there's one you can do since it's located where you don't need to travel at this point in time. As it's on the Brilehaven roads and most people will have already finished travelling around them whilst the story was taking place there. I didn't even do the fight till NG+, I skipped a few of the optional Guntlet Runner fights as I didn't know if time would be really tight near the end of the game.

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

Interesting how Eupha has no commentary on any of the areas and side quests you can do at this section, guess they didn't expect the player to prioritize saving her even though it really feels like you should and it's most optimal as well. It's a shame though, it'd have ben fun to get some insight from her on the burial ritual and the hopeless siblings

[@fenrohr2548]

its not really that they didn't expect you to do them first, but moreso that you have the option to do them before Eupha joins

[@FlareSouL]

Yeah healing moves are actually overtuned in Metaphor. Even at lvl 99 and max health there is no reason to waste mp on any heal beyond “medium healing” since it just heals more than half hp so “heavy” or “full” heals are a waste of resources. Also for the record, the general archetype isn’t a jack of all trades. The Commander lineage is actually a strange one because it slowly converts from a physical class buffer to a magic class buffer for some reason. Personally I think this doesn’t matter much since its for the buffs primarily still but it does make investing into it a bit weird for physical attackers. For the Dekaja and Dekunda thing, I argue Dekunda is not as important because you can cancel the debuffs using General’s team buffs. You can get it much later as it isn’t that necessary soon. Dekaja however is important and you should definitely have it at some point on someone.

[@DRAG0NSPIRIT10]

Yeah, I just used Mediline as my main healing move for the entire game 😆.

[@Rork310]

Especially since single target healing is more than covered by consumables Knight is weirdly arguably the best healer archtype lineage. Like it's nice to inherit the level 2 group heal onto the protagonist or stick the Cleric mask onto Junah if you need access to it in a pinch. But that's pretty much all the Healer line is good for other than early game light damage, sticking its one useful ability onto something actually useful. Mild Late game archetype spoiler below Savior is worthless. Like on its own merits its a worse healer than Cleric as cleric doesn't have to inherit the X1.5 heal skill which makes its medium heal even more capable of doing basically the same thing Savior spends 40 mp on. The one thing it has going for it is the group status heal which is admittedly nice to have. But is really probably only coming in handy for one endgame fight where you're probably just going to slap on anti status items.

[@HappyPotat]

I argue otherwise on the Dekunda thing when it comes to the dragons. It may not seem like it but those debuffs really stack hard.

[@Cosplaythief]

I also argue on dekunda. I think it is a worthwhile skill to keep on hand.

[@nataliecoronado4206]

Dekunda purges debuffs on all allies in this game, that's the effect it's always had in Megaten. You might be confusing the skill for an item that clears them for one ally

[@BanditTheThief09]

To explain Emergency Aid a bit, it's supposed to use less MP than anything equal to it. The previous still, First Aid, is still exactly the same except for a single person. It can be handy for longer dungeon runs to help save in MP (although with the Mage lineage, you might have less of a need for it.) From the main menu, group heals heal the entire party and not just the four active party members.

[@PJSam1998]

For all us dumb Americans, 35 degrees Celsius is around 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

[@animewatcher102]

If anyone is wondering what happened to Gloddel's dog, Hector. Try looking in Brialhaven near gauntlet runners.

[@pn2294]

I only remember seeing something about that in the last month

[@animewatcher102]

@pn2294 I found it way before the last month.

[@DRAG0NSPIRIT10]

That's later in the game, in the final section.

[@0megaJ0ker]

@@DRAG0NSPIRIT10yup

[@izzadk86]

Resist, Immune & Repel skills will overwrite your inherit weakness For example your healer is weak to dark and you equip the resist dark armor, they are now without any weakness and resist light & dark But this doesn't apply to "increase evasion for xxx element" cause you are still weak to said element, it's just you can dodge it better There are pros & cons for both, resist makes sure that the enemies won't get an extra turn while dodge is more of a gamble, if you dodge they'll lose 2 action but if they hit they get an extra turn (since we are talking about weakness) The best is when you can get immune or repel, they literally can't hurt you and you take their action points

[@Arrowhead47]

I want to take a moment to talk about the cultural inspirations regarding this game. I first want to mention that the Archetype concept is heavily inspired by Carl Jung's theories on psychology. The same theories that influence the Persona games regarding shadows, collective unconscious and personas but that isn't what i want to focus on. While the velvet room residents are all named after people from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, More is instead a reference to the real life author Thomas More who published a book in 1516 called Utopia. The book is written in the perspective of More himself which was a common practice at the time and tells of the island utopia. If you look at the map from 1516, it is the same shape as the United Kingdom of Euchronia. Plus the king, Hythlodaeus V, is named after a character in the book Raphael Hythlodaeus, whose last name means speaker of nonsense. Both More's write books about travels to a utopic land and comments on the social-political situation of the time. The second key influence is that of Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch who lived from 1450-1516 responsible for around 25 paintings. These paintings feature surreal imagery that has become the basis for the human enemies in game, both bosses and standard enemies. You can have look at his most famous work 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' and see some of the humans that you have fought so far. The game has a heavy influence from the renaissance era and these two are some of its most heavy inspirations

[@DRAG0NSPIRIT10]

I'd recommend talking to the little kid standing next to the well (the one right by the inn) in Eht Ria as they'll give you a Gold Beetle.

[@fireballdragon21]

"Congratulations on becoming king, Bizzle. With this, our contract is fulfilled. My own duties end here as well... You were truly a remarkable guest. ...Albeit not the first."

[@StripofPaper]

Nico, 46 C is not "pretty warm"... That's a broiling 115F 🥵

[@ArnnFrost]

its so warm you can smell soup

[@nataliecoronado4206]

uhhh 115F is like an average summer day for an American. I can understand why he'd only call that "pretty warm"

[@masapeeta4140]

⁠@@nataliecoronado4206where is 115 average for an American summer?

[@nataliecoronado4206]

@@masapeeta4140 most of the south and parts of the east and west coast. I live pretty far north and it still hits the 120's in the summer. Also, Sommie pfp spotted :O

[@maxxatom]

Arizona, New Mexico, Death Valley/SoCal

[@acerlean]

*looks at thumbnail* ayooo, we get some more lore?? what a surprise

[@tebeakim3670]

More is a really mysterious person and I am curious what secret memories he had that he can´t remember it. I think that it will be revealed later/near the end as a big twist and I wonder if your theory will be right or not or if it will be something different (I also have a theory on my own and I will wait and see when he fully remembers everything). I also wonder what his cat has to do with anything, because it looks like the cat is originally from our/fantasy world/the utopia and it is quite interesting how it got here and for what. I think that it is all connected somehow and it will be revealed/solved in the end. Also I love the references from other Atlus games (Persona, Devil Summoner, Soul Hacker) in the abilities of the characters. Really cool. ^_^

[@KeeperOfUntoldDreams]

Uh...I don't know if people are mistaken or outright lying, but, I bought all the Archetypal Rings I needed at once. No waiting, no leaving the area and coming back, I just kept talking to the merchant and buying the rings. I _am_ on NG+, but I doubt that has anything to do with it.

[@Mirality]

Yeah, you don't need to leave at all, just talk to him again immediately. It's only one _of each type_ per day, not one in total. (I don't _think_ leaving and coming back refreshes that, but I don't remember testing it.)

[@KeeperOfUntoldDreams]

@ It doesn't seem like leaving and coming back makes a difference. It's just that he only sells one specific item a day, and you can buy multiples of the item, so long as you have the money. But, I didn't see anyone in the comments bringing it up, so I thought I had missed an explanation from Nico as to why he was only buying one ring a day.

[@ZenetosZenohold]

*~Eupha buying a new helmet at the helmet seller~* *Eupha* “I need a new helmet mine shattered into a million pieces.” *Mustari Helmet Seller* “Of course high prestress may I ask what happened?” *Eupha* ”I awakened an mythic power to fulfill our ancient prophecy to fight our literal Dragon God in mortal combat.” *Mustari Helmet Seller* “Neat. Could be worse you could have tired Spire of Blind Faith in bad weather like that one Mustari woman who went their to get their Monster Notebook.” *Eupha* ”…”

[@9Maciej]

So, I will just inform anyone, that the Metaphor ReFantazio manga has debuted and the first chapter is on a Manga Plus app. And while I do get most people who prefer the game before reading the manga, I'm just gonna say the first chapter already has highlights of Will speaking and some of the quotes are just down right memeable, like "I have this (book), so I don't care".

[@Amberle38]

"Peck of DEATH" had me in stitches for some reason. Not sure what's worse, giant evil penguins in the Trails series or giant evil chickens in Metaphor 😂

[@radrush1235]

Elmenta: oh hi there mr nico i just wanted to check out your cool little gauntlet rider and say whoever built it was probably really smart Neuras : *nukes the shit out of the elmenta* clear off! Nico: if only those balls could talk

[@OneColdRepublican]

44:34 Sai that was a STYLISH transition screen. Dope stuff. 🤯🤩👌👌👌👌

[@Rixec2]

It turned out all More wanted.... was More's friends.

[@Mathamus1]

I don't think you even have to leave to get more archetypal rings from the merchant. just talk to them again.

[@Aaronrules380]

I'd actually argue that getting dekunda and dekaja on your characters is not worth your time because you can buy a consumable with the same effect and money isn't really an issue in this game, so it's more worthwhile to have other skills you can't just replace with items instead

[@Jason8012]

Yeah they're pretty cheap. I always kept 90+ in my inventory. Saves mp too

[@crazybagel9979]

More: I shall meet them again some day….. Bizzle: In Metaphor ReFantazio 2? More: No in the 300 Persona 5 spin off games.

[@oreotaku4017]

Are you telling me we are getting almost 300 Persona 5 Arena games? Yessssssssssssssss

[@IrfanFakhrianto]

The metaphor manga came out today, and honestly even tho they changed stuff for the adaptation, it makes for a great read anyways so check it out, its a monthly manga so only chapter 1 is out right now. Immensely curious on how theyll change stuff in the future too to accomodate for the format.

[@kurtmorales7644]

The intro makes so much sense now! Nico's BS powers strikes again, with the names of Eupha and Junah's skills!

[@josephnew5025]

Honestly, I was expecting more in the thumbnail... ...and was not disappointed!

[@jacalynnepuder1172]

Hulkenburg: i am vengeance, *points to hesimay* He's the terror that flaps in the night. *points at herself* I am typically pretty hungry. Hesimay: im the what now? Now see here, young lady, im not a terror at all. We've gone through this before. Junah and neuras: apparently that flew right over your head, not surprised given your size. (This was obviously meant as a joke, sorry if this wasn't good enough for anyone.)

[@joelsasmad]

Heismay is literally a Batman.

[@jacalynnepuder1172]

@joelsasmad he sure is, I even tried making a meme related to that on tumblr. It fell flat but I at least tried

[@ArnnFrost]

Although I understand that optimizing your playthrough is a good thing because you're ensuring that you always get the best side of the games being played as well as making the playthrough very digestible for KZbin, I still kinda feel that it's making you avoid getting the full blind experience and also raises the probability of you reading a bad comment that either spoils you or sets your expectations SO HIGH that you end up being disappointed by the end since your expectations haven't been met. That last part happened to me playing Final Fantasy XIV, the cultish fanbase overpraised the later parts of the story Sooo hard that they made it sound like its the second coming of Christ xD like the writers cooked so hard that it made Jesus Christ descend back to earth to witness it or something. so when I finally finished that part of the story that apparently moved the entire fanbase to tears I ended up like ".... Huh? THAT'S IT???" instead. Its good to listen but don't listen too much lol Seriously somebody told me that game expansion made them cum wtf

[@Lockfire1]

Don’t think it’s bad in this case, all they really said was that this is the last big notable chunk of free time for a while so make the most of it, not any actual story details.

[@risu2312]

about the ffxiv part, are you talking about the end part in heavensward? i havent gone into post stormblood so if its anything beyond that please dont spoil 🙏

[@ArnnFrost]

​@@risu2312its the later expansions, Heavensward is awesome IMO so Enjoy. And don't do my mistake reading comments and enjoy the game and story at your own pace xD good luck

[@OneColdRepublican]

This Episode: More Lore. This also works backwards: Lore More.

[@aneonfoxtribute]

Emergency Aid is like First Aid. It's cheap healing outside of battle.

[@Sandy-ik1ic]

Emergency aid’s value comes from being dirt cheap. It makes anyone with it a great out of combat heal bot essentially. I can’t tell you how many times I used it in my playthrough

[@saltypepper3340]

i am glad that the director wouldnt mind to make a sequel to metaphor, which is super great

[@DarknessDpa]

I definitely would have to hear more from the people who got 'blindsided' from this videos comment of the day because I also can't at all see how this next set of stuff coming up would be that detrimental, especially since you can still buy stuff and whatnot at points.

[@GeonamicWarrior]

I imagine it'd be bad if players neglected building a certain recent party member and made the MC more of a support character. I personally had my MC as a support or magic damage dealer character throughout the game, so the other character I mentioned had to deal most of the damage in that segment.

[@DarknessDpa]

@GeonamicWarrior Mine was more leaned towards magic but I also was technically a magic support person in terms of healing but didn't have much problems. However I did forget that one thing that happens so if you also did certain things too late I can see how it might be a bit of a problem.

[@meadow6760]

Trial of the Seeker is an amazing synthesis skill, I used it for doing the arena fights in particular. You can hit enough enemies with it that the character using the attack ends up getting more mp than is being used.

[@zackfair711]

Wait, are the level 4s in the Royal Virtues just the factions in Divergent? 😅

[@katzewerfer63]

and now we wait for Mr kitty to become the ultimate Architype after several grueling quest and secret boss fights that no one has ever found

[@meadow6760]

30:33 was curious about the temp, didn't realize that was almost 115° F holy hell

[@wafffls]

greatly enjoying this let’s play!

[@neonoah3353]

*Game:* its 48ºC, if you go outside you are going to burn alive! *Literally 41ºC where i live, i can only imagine it being even worse*

[@Zribuieb]

Emergency Aid's benefit is that the MP cost is incredibly cheap! The Knight archetype has a similar skill (First Aid) with an MP cost of 2, but that's single target. Great cost effective skill to have for healing, though (although I personally think you'd be better off using items to conserve MP, no matter how small)

[@Flutterdark_]

the more 8 perk: every archetype gives you stats, what it gives and how much depends on archetype and i think any stat it does increase gets an extra +3 while equipped this is unrelated to master bonusses.

[@GeonamicWarrior]

Try to max out Alonzo's follower bond soonish for the amazing stat debuff skill in the second Faker archetype. It's so good that I still use it in the end game content. He mixes things up a bit with his availability windows depending on his rank, and it looks like he's only available during the day for your current rank.

[@0megaJ0ker]

Funny enough, I made the same mistake like Nico did but the Spire dungeon turned out ok. Plus I walked out with extra EXP.

[@banlungx001]

Moarrrr

[@PhantomVizor777]

More is a very fascinating character.

[@JackDout]

Bizzel: Where did all of this blood come from!? Hey, are you still alive?! Where is he?! What happened here?! . Hulkenburg: No... Nothing happened...!

[@saltypepper3340]

interested if the final character you will bond with will be louis, but I doubt it, though it would be cool.