Some closing remarks from me. First, forget about Kalinka and her +99'999 damage one punch special (if buffed just right). Granted, that's sweet mid-game, but towards the end? No. What you really want is lilly with Crystallized Abyss Sword (Crystal damage, Evasion and Critical +15%, +1 normal attack) and another +1 attack itenz (onion cape) and why not a turbo arm (attack +10%). Next, you pair lilly up with Najezta for all the fish scale formation (for 100% guaranteed criticals almost all the time, all the time) and imperial tactics buffs. Last but not least, hit that "Pleasure" button on lilly (stat buffs and +2 attacks for 3 turns) and hack away with normal attacks that just hits the sweetspot/weakness of all those evil endgame baddies.
That said, the game is a fucking mess, which is unfortunate, since it starts out so nice, but derails into a bloated mess of utter nonsense. The endgame is particularly terrible for all the badly paced and endless "cinematic" exposition (plot dump vs gameplay balance is way off towards the end...), and garbage plot that is all over the place and full of uninteresting coincidences.
But my main problem here is: why wont anybody learn from that 20, maybe 30 year old piece of shit game, yeah, sengoku rance! (rance9 and 10 eng. translations fucking when? ahhhh) At least a little? For here's how you truly fix the game:
- Get rid of all the isekai, devil drug and time travel shit. Also no robots. No modern weaponry. Fuck that. It's bloat and doesn't add anything other than dumb VN plot. But still, Najezta needs to be paired up with a boobie slut, this is important. But that's easy to fix/keep. ha.
- Next: make use of all the demon apostles, other than mebius, who is great, they're greatly underused. The player should in mid-game get to play with/command demon apostles in battle and what not, first individually, and then you build up to where you fight with four demon apostles, just how fucking cool would that be.
- But the crucial part: figure out a way to conquer the map similar to sengoku rance, where you unlock territory and commanders/characters in a much more dynamic fashion, maybe lock out certain characters/factions while getting hold of/joining up with others, and so on. Find rare itenz, learn unique skills in one place, but not those from another, at least not in this game. Because let's be frank here. This game, as is, does not deserve a New Game+. What the hell? The game is too much on rails for such a thing.
- And as to my personal butthurt: I expected something so much better form the prelude/intro lolis, and what I got in the end just adds insult to injury. Fucking hell. This would have made for excellent mid-game content, where you lose power/allies, so flower/onion polca has to team up with those two lolis, which you then proceed to level up over a chapter or something, give them proper items and all. And One of them is the fucking daughter of bohelos commander for fucks sake. This could and should have been fantastic subplot after such a tease in the intro (with funny skills and harmless weapons/fights). Just.
Will not play New Game+.
Would not recommend.
You guys have fun. I'm out.
