Metaphor: ReFantazio’s recently released guidebook is on sale for its lowest price yet thanks to an Amazon coupon deal. Normally $55, Metaphor: ReFantazio’s official strategy guide is on sale for $37.79. Amazon’s store page shows $47.24, but you’ll save an extra $9.45 at checkout if you click the coupon box. The bonus 20% price cut expires September 29 and may not be available for all customers. If you don’t see the coupon box on the listing, unfortunately the price is $47.24. Prior to this deal, the all-time low price was $45.
The strategy guide for Atlus’ critically acclaimed 2024 role-playing game was published by Future Press on April 22.
$37.79 (was $55) with coupon
Metaphor: ReFantazio’s massive 592-page guide sounds like both a cool collectible for Atlus fans and a comprehensive compendium of everything you could possibly want to know about the game.
Along with a complete walkthrough designed so that you see and do everything, the guidebook has multiple catalogs of useful information to pore over:
- Archetype Encyclopedia: An exhaustive section covering all skills, Synthesis attacks, and inheritance options.
- Equipment catalog: All items and equipment are included in a section designed to be used as a quick reference sheet.
- Bestiary: Every enemy in the game is chronicled with in-depth stats, including strengths and weaknesses, item drop rates, and other pertinent details.
- Dialogue trees: All of the choice-based dialogue and actions made in the game are outlined to help you form bonds with characters based on your personal preferences.
- Appendices: For those who want true 100% completion, this section contains the full Memorandum, has New Game+ details, an achievements and trophies guide, and a build guide to help you be as prepared as possible for Metaphor’s toughest challenges.
It also comes with a poster-sized map of Euchronia that’s an exact replica of the in-game map.
More Future Press Guidebooks
If you’re interested in Metaphor’s strategy guide, you may want to pick it up sooner rather than later. Future Press is also the publisher of Elden Ring’s Books of Knowledge, a three-part guidebook series that has often been difficult to find in stock, especially the first two volumes. An Elden Ring Nightreign strategy guide was originally slated to release this month, but it has been pushed back to February 27, 2026.
Future also re-released its popular Bloodborne guides last October as one 744-page tome covering the base game and DLC. In April of last year, the Dark Souls Trilogy Compendium was reprinted to celebrate Future’s 25th anniversary. Unfortunately, this one is currently sold out at major retailers, but the Bloodborne guide is still available, and it also has a massive coupon discount that drops the price to $40 (was $60).
Rounding out the From Software game guidebooks is the Armored Core 6 Pilot’s Manual–a very useful resource for the latest Armored Core game, which is arguably more complex than any Souls game or Elden Ring. The Pilot’s Manual had been sold out for months, but it’s back in stock alongside the Elden Ring restocks.
Future Press was also responsible for the Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s Official Complete Guide, which released in 2023 and clocks in at 688 pages.
Though not published by Future, it’s worth mentioning that there’s another very exciting gaming book launching October 28. Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective is available to preorder for $46.49 (was $50) at Amazon. This hardcover book will be published by Piggyback, the team behind the superb Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom guides–which are available for great discounts right now.
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