Embark on a journey to achieve complete mastery in Metaphor ReFantazio with this comprehensive Metaphor 100 Guide. This meticulously crafted 100% Walkthrough is designed to ensure you unlock every Trophy & Achievement, max out Follower Ranks, conquer all Archetypes, complete every Quest, and discover all Gold Beetle Collectibles, Recipes, Drawings, Debate Candidates, Books, and Towns within a single playthrough.
By adhering to this guide, you’ll secure every possible Trophy/Achievement by the conclusion of your initial playthrough, with the sole exception of Closing the Book, a trophy exclusive to New Game+ due to the Superboss’s appearance in that mode. All other accolades are attainable in your first run using this walkthrough. Feel free to select your preferred difficulty, though Storyteller mode is recommended for optimal grinding, offering accelerated gains in Money, MAG, and XP.
Follower progression in Metaphor ReFantazio is straightforward. Unlike some games, follower ranks advance naturally through interactions without the need for specific Archetypes or dialogue choices. Engaging in follower events and simply spending time with them guarantees rank increases. While selecting “correct” dialogue options may yield bonus Magla, the amount is negligible, allowing you to freely choose responses based on preference. To quickly check follower availability, press while in town or on the Gauntlet Runner to access the follower tab. A lit pink icon indicates available interaction, while a grayed-out icon suggests a prerequisite needs to be met.
Resource gathering for Vessels and Masks primarily relies on random enemy drops, ensuring a unique experience for each player. Prioritize crafting Masks/Vessels whenever possible and utilize the Weary Shopkeeper in Brilehaven for Mask pieces if needed. This vendor offers a daily rotating stock of Mask pieces, limited to one of each piece per in-game day. Similarly, Talismans can be purchased from the Hunter on Virga Island, with a limit of one of each Talisman per playthrough. Enhance item drop rates by utilizing skills from the Merchant Archetype. Importantly, all crafted Vessels and Masks carry over to New Game+, providing ample opportunity to acquire any missed items.
Should you make any missteps during your playthrough, rest assured that there is buffer time built into the schedule. A perfect run isn’t mandatory, especially considering a New Game+ playthrough is necessary for the Superboss encounter and any trophy cleanup. It is recommended to utilize manual saves daily, allowing for easy reloading in case of errors.
Downtime activities offer opportunities to boost Royal Virtues, some with dialogue choices influencing point gains. To ensure optimal virtue point accumulation, consider saving before engaging in these events, allowing for reloads if less desirable dialogue options are chosen.
100% Walkthrough with all Trophies & Achievements
A Guide by ObsiEez, Monomaru, LuckySlime.
Changelog: 2024-11-14: Optimized walkthrough for greater efficiency, more free days, and streamlined dungeon order. The original version remains accessible here.
Day 1: June 2nd
- Grand Trad, Recruitment Center – During your interview, you’ll face 5 dialogue choices. Each choice grants bonus skill points to a specific skill: Strength, Magic, Endurance, Agility, Luck, in order of appearance. Select the option that aligns with your desired skill boost.
Days 2-3: June 3rd – June 4th
- Story progression only.
Day 4: June 5th
- Afternoon
- Earn Stunning! in your first enemy encounter.
- Earn Allies United after the initial boss battle.
- Night
- At the camp, locate the Gold Beetle under a tree behind Strohl. (1/50) Highly missable! This area becomes inaccessible after this night.
- Earn Shake on It upon unlocking your first Follower.
Day 5: June 6th
- Afternoon
- In Nord Mines, encounter a dragon towards the end. Engage it for a Warrior class weapon (dragon is weak to ice). This dungeon is one-time access only. Mage Rank 2 on 2 characters recommended for ice attack spam. Conserve MP recharging items if possible for the first main dungeon.
- Earn Out of the Fire after completing Nord Mines.
Days 6-9: June 7th – June 10th
- Story progression only.
Day 10: June 11th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Sunshade Row – Gold Beetle behind stairs to Comfort Concoctions. (2/50)
- Grand Trad, Comfort Concoctions – Gold Beetle by interacting with spice sack near door. (3/50)
- Grand Trad, Sunshade Row – Talk to More, visit Akademia, accept “More’s Task: Foreword and Prologue“.
- Story progression, use a Synthesis skill in the boss fight for United Front.
Day 11: June 12th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Sunshade Row – Accept “Pagan’s Dilemma” from Mustari Man. Buy Breath of Fresh Air at St. Fermis Church, turn in quest. (+4 Tolerance)
- Grand Trad, Sunshade Row – Give Medical Herb to Main in Pain.
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Accept “Help the Hushed Honeybee” from Young Nidia Man.
- Grand Trad, Recruitment Center – Gold Beetle in hallway corner. (4/50)
- Grand Trad, Regalith Grand Cathedral – Buy 3 Fruit Cordial from Water Merchant.
- Grand Trad, Catacombs Entrance – Enter dungeon. Aim for single-day completion using Mage’s Magic Recovery passive (1 MP per enemy stunned/defeated). Grind at Trance Crystals for MP, reset Crystal HP in Magla Hollow if needed.
- Rank Healer Archetype to 10 in dungeon, turn in “More’s Task: Foreword and Prologue“, accept “More’s Task Chapter One: Ordeal“. (Rank 2) (+4 Imagination)
- Defeat dungeon boss, unlock Calamity Averted.
Day 12: June 13th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Recruitment Center – Accept “Mans’ Not-So Best Friend” bounty.
- Spend time with Hulkenberg. (Rank 2)
- Night
- Grand Trad, Sunshade Row – Buy Secret of the Redgrass Shop info from Informant.
- Grand Trad, Hushed Honeybee Inn – Cook with Fabienne, save beforehand for correct dialogue. (+3 Tolerance)
Day 13: June 14th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Turn in “Help the Hushed Honeybee“. (+4 Wisdom)
- Spend time with Strohl. (Rank 2)
- Night
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Gaze at Royal Capital view. (+2 Wisdom. Rank 2 Wisdom)
Day 14: June 15th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Regalith Grand Cathedral – Buy Pristine Clear Water, Bidou Meat, Redgrass. Unlock Shrewd Shopper.
- Grand Trad, St. Fermis Church – Purify item with Rank 2 Wisdom, unlock Blessed Power.
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Accept “A Bullish Embargo” from Igniter Merchantess (Rank 2 Wisdom).
- Exit Grand Trad to Belega Corridor.
- Belega Corridor – Gold Beetle on B3, left tunnel in large room. (5/50)
- Belega Corridor – Loot, defeat boss, return to town.
- Night
- Skipped (dungeon entry).
Day 15: June 16th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Turn in “A Bullish Embargo“. (+4 Courage), auto spend time with Brigitta. (Rank 1)
- Night
- Grand Trad, Hushed Honeybee Inn – Make Redgrass-Roasted Bidou with Fabienne, option 2. (+3 Tolerance)
Day 16: June 17th
- Afternoon
- Spend time with Strohl. (Rank 3)
- Night
- Grand Trad, Hushed Honeybee Inn – Cook with Fabienne, save beforehand for correct dialogue. (+3 Tolerance)
Day 17: June 18th
- Afternoon
- Exit Grand Trad to Tradia Desert.
- Tradia Desert – Gold Beetle in bush near rock, left of start. (6/50)
- Tradia Desert – Loot, complete objective, beat boss.
- Night
- Skipped (dungeon entry).
Day 18: June 19th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Recruitment Center – Turn in “Man’s Not-So Best Friend” bounty, unlock Monster Hunter. (+4 Courage)
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Spend time with Chatty Elder. (+2 Imagination)
- Night
- Spend time with Brigitta. (Rank 2)
Day 19: June 20th
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Sunlumeo Street – Spend time with Chatty Elder. (+2 Imagination)
- Night
- Grand Trad, Hushed Honeybee Inn – Cook with Fabienne, save beforehand for correct dialogue. (+3 Tolerance. Rank 2 Tolerance)
Day 20: June 21st
- Afternoon
- Grand Trad, Sunshade Row – Spend time with Activist Woman. (+2 Eloquence)
- Night
- Spend time with Brigitta. (Rank 3)
Days 21-22: June 22nd – June 23rd
- Story progression only.
Day 23: June 24th
- Afternoon
- Gauntlet Runner – Cooking Table, collect recipes.
- Gauntlet Runner – Pantry, free ingredients (daily from now on).
- Gauntlet Runner – Bookshelf, read New World Travel Diary, choose 1, 3, 1. (+4 Imagination)
- Night
- Gauntlet Runner – Campfire, cooking item (nightly when camped).
- Gauntlet Runner – Bookshelf, read New World Travel Diary, choose 2. (+4 Imagination)
Day 24: June 25th
- Afternoon
- Gauntlet Runner – Toilet on Idlesday (+1 Luck, every Idlesday).
- Gauntlet Runner – Bookshelf, finish New World Travel Diary, choose 1. (+8 Imagination. Rank 2 Imagination)
- Story event, Tree of Prophecy Drawing. (+4 Wisdom)
- Night
- Gauntlet Runner – Spend time with Neuras, choose 3. (+4 Wisdom)
Days 25-27: June 26th – June 28th
- Story progression only.
Day 28: June 29th
- Afternoon
- Martira, Thoroughfare Square – Buy 3 Mellow Milk, 3 Fruit Cordial (Water Trader).
- Martira, Stairstone Market – Buy Mora Coney Meat (Hardy Butcher).
- Martira, Cattleracket Road – Buy Rockbeans, Fragrant Spice (Greengrocer Girl).
- Martira, Thoroughfare Square – Accept “A Dagger, a Ring, and a Rake” (Rank 2 Imagination).
- Martira, Thoroughfare Square – Accept “Hatching a Plan” (Gloomy Youth).
- Martira, Recruitment Center – Accept “The New King of the Imps” bounty.
- Martira, Visca Alba Tavern – Gold Beetle at fireplace. (7/50)
- Martira, Visca Alba Tavern – Inn room, water jug, Gold Beetle (random drop, reload save). (8/50)
- Gauntlet Runner – Chart course to Imp’s Den, spend time with Hulkenberg while traveling. (Rank 3)
- Imp’s Den – Gold Beetle in north area. (9/50)
- Imp’s Den – Loot, defeat boss, return to town.
- Night
- Skipped (dungeon entry).
Day 29: June 30th
- Afternoon
- Martira, Recruitment Center – Turn in “The New King of Imps” bounty. (+4 Courage. Rank 2 Courage)
- Grand Trad, Hushed Honeybee Inn – Turn in “Promising Returns“.
- Spend time with Maria (Rank 2 Tolerance). (Rank 2)
- Night
- Spend time with Brigitta. (Rank 4)
Day 30: July 1st
- Afternoon
- Spend time with Hulkenberg. (Rank 4)
- Night
- Martira, Thoroughfare Square – Spirited Youth, take plunge, reload if no +4 Courage (save first). (+4 Courage)
Day 31: July 2nd
- Afternoon
- Gauntlet Runner – Chart course to Giant Sandworm Nest, read Pride and Persuasion, choose 2. (+4 Eloquence)
- Story event, Midnight Sunsands Drawing. (+4 Wisdom)
- Story event, battle Catherina. (Rank 2)
- Night
- Spend time with Neuras. (+4 Wisdom)
Day 32: July 3rd
- Afternoon
- Enter Sandworm dungeon (one-time access, grab everything).
Day 33: July 4th
- Story progression only.
Day 34: July 5th
- Afternoon
- Martira, Recruitment Center – Accept “The Man-Eater in the Mine” bounty.
- Gauntlet Runner – Washroom (free EXP daily).
- Gauntlet Runner – Cooking Table, new recipes.
- Gauntlet Runner – Chart course to Man-Eater’s Grotto, read Pride and Persuasion, choose 3. (+4 Eloquence)
- Komero – Stop at Komero, auto-complete “Providing a Spark“, accept “Relic Search: Inventor’s Bequest“, unlock Neuras. (Rank 1)
- Komero – Buy Practical Pidgeon Parcel, Orgo Sugar.
- Man-Eater’s Grotto – Akademia with More, study Gunner & Merchant Archetypes, turn in “More’s Task Chapter One: Ordeal“, accept “More’s Task Chapter Two: Solitude“. (Rank 3) (+4 Imagination)
- Man-Eater’s Grotto – Steal from enemy, unlock What’s Yours is Mine. Steal from new enemies, use to restart if fail.
- Man-Eater’s Grotto – Screwed-Up Material for Neuras near Talkative Tooth chest.
- Man-Eater’s Grotto – Gold Beetle bottom floor, near north staircases. (10/50)
- Man-Eater’s Grotto – Loot, defeat boss, return to town.
- Night
- Skipped (dungeon entry).
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