What is the best way to play? Do you explore or do you run around a circle?

[Keba]

Questions in the title. If you explore, how do you get experience? Is there anything interesting worth finding in the forest? Or is it all the same with just torches?

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Most levels have 'stage items' you can collect. You can pick these up even if you have 6 items already so these allow you to surpass regular limit. You need relics to see these marked on the map. The Milky Way Map relic will list stage items and other items of note like chicken, chests, coffin, etc. You can manually check the map for their locations or have the game mark the direction you need to go to them. The Yellow Sign relic will unlock the items needed for Laurel and Clock Lancet evolutions.

Mad Forest and Dairy Plant are more wide open so it's harder to find these items and takes longer to run between them. Library and Tower are much easier, you just need to run in one direction, get the stage items and go the other way, doesn't take too long there. Mad Grove arcana makes it a lot easier in general to get these items as it teleports all the stage items, chests, experience gems, pickups, etc. in a circle around you.

As for getting exp, the game limits the number of total spawns so charging in and killing stuff quickly will trigger more spawns letting you get more exp.

[Keba]

Originally posted by chris.ferrantegerard:

Most levels have 'stage items' you can collect. You can pick these up even if you have 6 items already so these allow you to surpass regular limit. You need relics to see these marked on the map. The Milky Way Map relic will list stage items and other items of note like chicken, chests, coffin, etc. You can manually check the map for their locations or have the game mark the direction you need to go to them. The Yellow Sign relic will unlock the items needed for Laurel and Clock Lancet evolutions.

Mad Forest and Dairy Plant are more wide open so it's harder to find these items and takes longer to run between them. Library and Tower are much easier, you just need to run in one direction, get the stage items and go the other way, doesn't take too long there. Mad Grove arcana makes it a lot easier in general to get these items as it teleports all the stage items, chests, experience gems, pickups, etc. in a circle around you.

As for getting exp, the game limits the number of total spawns so charging in and killing stuff quickly will trigger more spawns letting you get more exp.

Thank you! Another question: are maps endless? I played on the library for 30 minutes going in one direction and never encountered a turn nor a stop. What about more open maps, are they endless too?

[Pirate]

Most maps are endless, but a very few are finite and designed. But in general yes, endless.