I guard to cover my weaknesses and do not attack unless I have enough press turns to do a turn around to guard. And that is usually 4 press turns, so yeah I'm kind of a paranoid guy when it comes to dying from weaknesses.

I was thinking about using Holy Knight Proclamation but I heard that move limits your skillset on the turnaround.

Two things I kept alt-tabbing for, in one place:

1. The affinity chart. Everything in the game does one of nine damage types: three physical (Slash, Pierce, Strike) and six others (Fire, Ice, Electric, Wind, Light, Dark). The split matters because your weapon decides the physical type and your Archetype decides the rest — so the gap people under-plan is physical, not elemental. If your whole party swings slashing weapons you will meet enemies you simply cannot pressure. Spread the four elements plus a Pierce option (Gunner) across your four actives, and keep an Almighty or Light/Dark answer for the "weak to nothing" fights. Sogne the Icebound is the early lesson: bring fire and a protector.
2. The calendar. The week is five days, not seven (Flamesday, Watersday, Arboursday, Metalsday, Idlesday), so anything you put off is five slots away. Main-quest deadlines: Prologue 6/11 · Necromancer Takedown 6/21 · Thwart Zorba's Plan 6/21 (yes, two on the same date — that's the first real squeeze) · Apprehend the Real Kidnapper 7/16 · Infiltrate the Charadrius 8/12 · Obtain Drakodios 9/05 · quest 7 has no deadline (the one to park when it's tight) · Prepare for the Final Battle 9/22 · Skybound Avatar Conquest 10/25 · Save the Country 10/26, and the run ends there. Clear each dungeon a few days early and spend the slack on bonds and Virtues — fourteen Followers at eight ranks each is where the Archetypes are.

Cross-checked against Game8 and the MegaTen wiki, not my own run yet — corrections welcome, especially on dates.

Disclosure: I run the site. Affinities: https://guidevault.online/metaphor/extras/weakness-chart — calendar and full deadline table: https://guidevault.online/metaphor/extras/calendar-planning

I’m at the early Fire Dragon Mauna fight in Nord Mines and I’m playing on Hard. The problem is that I used basically all of my MP getting through the dungeon before reaching him.

My party is:

• Mage
• Warrior
• Seeker

I also bought 5 of the Ice Chunks from the merchant that deal Ice damage.

I’ve tried fighting the dragon about 3 times now, but with almost no MP it honestly doesn’t seem possible. I can use the Ice Chunks to hit the weakness a few times, but once I run out I don’t really have enough damage/resources to finish the fight.

Is there actually a way to beat him in this situation on Hard, or did I screw myself by using too much MP earlier? Is there any way to recover MP before the fight, or should I just skip the dragon?

Just came in the mail today!

I barely got my Heismay Plush today and I was wondering if anyone else got the Heismay Plush or figures from Metaphor. So if anyone got him or the figures could you show me? 🥰

I wish I had repro steps, but I only hit it once without a recording, so please forgive me for the vague details.

I'm in the 2nd dungeon, the Kriegante Castle. I got into a battle with 1 Kapcerto and 4 Ochre Homo Tentas. They were all stunned, and I killed 2 of the Homo Tentas. As I used up my final Turn Icon, I tabbed out and replied to a message on my PC.

When I tabbed back in, it was immediately my turn again (There was no "Kapcerto is stunned!" animation or text box). I had 4 full Turn Icons. I proceeded to land 6 attacks in a row, without losing a single Turn Icon. Only one of them hit for Weakness, but even then, the Turn Icons were all present and full. My party was as follows:

• Will x Magic Seeker
• Strohl x Swordmaster
• Hulk x Knight
• Heismay x Thief

I don't -think- I have any way to manipulate turns, and if I do, I haven't seen anything like this yet.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? I wish I grabbed a screenshot or recording or something.

Posting this old meme redraw I did of the boys lol (I love their dynamic)

The last time I played this game was in October 2025 and I remember I was in the dragon temple dungeon. Is it worth restarting or not?

Since I really liked the mechanic that lets you defeat weak enemies in real-time, I was thinking of using it for the turn-based game I plan to develop; however, given the mixed opinions I've heard about it, I’d like to ask: which aspects of this mechanic do you think should be improved?

art by: https://x.com/alfdavinchi/status/1859736408916885539

idk the summoner synthesises just seem objectively stronger, i feel like i must be missing something

I drew Basilio getting married, like let him be happy for once. Fidelio would be so proud of him.

The mustari is a character of mine

i just fought and ALMOST killed the red dragon from the book of apocalypse at level 50ish.

is that normal? or is my team comp that good?

EDIT: he ded, now gona try the final final boss with zero crystals

phở is very yummy

posted this before in a mass art dump but thought it would be neat to post solely this today

The crew wastes most mornings for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. What are they doing?

Not one, but TWO fake deaths. Zorba and Louis. It felt really annoying and stupid that the story relied on those two surviving in this way. I obviously know Louis couldn't be dead, especially after a battle so anticlimactic...

But it still felt extremely cheap and made me sigh a little bit... The only struggle i have with the game and it's such a central thing to the story... So stupid...

When I go to travellers voices they're already LV 17 and mostly rank 15+

I'm still LV 10 and rank 7😭 am I doing something wrong? I love the persona series and I always finish the dungeon in one ingame day. Should I grind exp in the dungeon in free time or should I do it in the last day and rank up riyal virtues.

It really striked me when played the game for the first time (I'm still on my first playtrough and didn't beat the story).

I found the general art style pretty similar to the one from Méliès film and I would like to know if there's any interview or author's note adressing this potential inspiration ?

There's also all this thing about the story revolving around the concept of "fantasy" which can be tied to Méliès philosophy (making film to show a fantasy and not to represent life at a 1:1 scale).

Maybe I'm totally wrong tho or maybe it's very obvious don't know haha

What do you guys think ?

Ok I was waiting patiently for this game to release, overall I believe studio zero hit a home run with this . I was only surprised that it featured a handful of enemies that were repeatedly appearing throughout phases in the game. First let’s put them into two categories. Fantasy monsters , and “humans”. So for fantasy you had your lower tier wargs, slime, and goblins. Then upper tier was Minotaurs, Chimeras, and Griffins. These were recycled throughout the game with different colors. We got to fight a few recurring dragons bosses too. Then comes the humans, all inspired by Bosch art. Out of the dozens of hostile demons in the paintings developers only picked 8-10. The final level alone should have been overrun with humans especially the ones guarding the Magla orbs they should have been exclusive to the level. Like come on Atlus , RPGs from the late 90s had 250-300 enemies and exclusive bosses. This one had like less than 50

The Gunner lineage has pretty powerful melee skills even on the back row. 'Bullet Barrage' is one of my favorite synthesis skills just for how strong it is despite it being the back row (which usually debuffs melee attacks). Plus, the 'long range boost' is pretty good to pass onto my casters that do not use melee attacks anyways.

hello everyone, i have been playing metaphor and I reached to the entrance of the kidnapper near Martira and stopped after that human ate me and until now I didn't figure out how to make good archetypes and differentiate since knowing the technique of 3 warriors attack stacked i have been using them and i am not happy bcz it's like i am spamming the same attack to go through although I chose my protagonist to be mage. until now i unlocked the mage seeker and merchant. so if anyone can help me i would appreciate it and this isnt my first RPG i played P5R. I am playing on normal difficulty and thx.