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Overview
Charms are equippable items specific to Koo in Beast of Reincarnation. While Emma has Spirit Stones as her primary equipment customization, Koo has Charms. Each Charm provides a unique passive bonus that affects Koo's behavior, abilities, or the effects of his Bloom Arts. Charms are found through exploration rather than purchased or crafted, rewarding players who investigate the game's environments thoroughly.
Role in customization
Beast of Reincarnation uses a three-layer customization system. Skill trees set the broad direction of a build. Spirit Stones (for Emma) and Charms (for Koo) provide the fine-tuning layer, modifying specific stats and behaviors. Bloom Arts mods add a third dimension by altering individual ability effects. Together, these three layers create a build-crafting system where no two players' setups will be identical.
Charms occupy the same strategic role for Koo that Spirit Stones fill for Emma. Where Spirit Stones affect Emma's combat stats and compound on parry, Charms modify how Koo performs across the full range of his abilities. The specifics of each Charm's effect have not been fully detailed in pre-release material, but the system is designed to give players meaningful choices about how they want Koo to contribute during combat.
Discovery through exploration
Charms are scattered throughout the game's districts and zones, hidden in locations that reward careful exploration. The game's world is structured as a linear journey from the countryside toward the capital, but each zone offers room for side exploration using plant abilities like vine grapples and wall climbing. Charms serve as one of the primary rewards for going off the main path and investigating optional areas.
This design means that a player who rushes through the main story will have access to fewer Charms, and therefore fewer customization options for Koo. Players who take time to explore will find more Charms, enabling more specialized and powerful builds. The system incentivizes thorough exploration without gating story progression behind it.