If you want to sail through the toughest boss battles in Metaphor ReFantazio, you’ll need to understand the Affinity system. Affinities play a huge role in the game’s combat, affecting how you build your party to deal with threats and enemies.

Here we'll take a look at every Affinity in the game, including why they're important and when you're likely to encounter them during your first playthrough.

Affinities are essentially the same as weaknesses and resistances in the Persona franchise. The categories that both characters and attacks fall into affect how much damage they take and deal when fighting others.

If you’ve never played a Persona game, think about Pokémon and how type matchups play a role in the iconic franchise. A Fire Pokémon would be weak to a Water-type move, and similarly, Fire is weak to Ice in Metaphor ReFantazio.