Detective Cancer

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It just doesn't have the Completed tag for whatever reason and it should unless the Dev's doing anything to it currently.
 

Xol

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Man, I normally try to beat games on my own, but fuck this shit. Anyone got a 100% save for the current version?

This is damn near impossible past the intro area. I don't know how anyone beats this game. I'm lucky to even land a stun before I'm caught by one of the ghosts, let alone able to use the attack that actually does damage. Even after upgrading both damage and stun durations, I can't do shit and I spend most of my time a hair away from being sent to the last checkpoint, due to how many times I get caught/hit before I finally clear a room- assuming I don't just run like mad and try to avoid getting caught, which I often have to do anymore, seeing as how taking on the ghosts and winning is damn near impossible. I'm at a point I absolutely can't get past now, as well, since it's one of those spots that's impassable until you beat them, and, as I said, doing so is unwinnable.

This game has some good features, no doubt- I thoroughly enjoy the ghost designs and the animations. But the gameplay is hideously flawed, IMO.
 

Detective Cancer

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It is quite flawed, doesn't help that it also has scripted loss-states to teach you game mechanics.
It's pretty obnoxious that enemy attacks are RNG too because they can time themselves so it's impossible to win.
It's the kinda game you ram your head into, you'll get through sooner or later, it's fairly generous with checkpoints I think.
 

BanditKitty

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Some tips which people may find helpful:

While the time that ghosts decide to attack is RNG, the attacks themselves are fairly scripted. They typically slide away from the player right before an attack. If you move in the opposite direction, you can usually easily stun/attack when they're on their way to you.

Also, for "white" ghosts (most of them), when they're about to grapple you, an arrow appears in the top, right, bottom, or left of the screen. Press that arrow key in a short amount of time and you'll be released from the grapple with no damage. Later in the game this gets more difficult since it requires multiple keypresses, but it's pretty easy in the beginning, to the point where the ghosts should never be having sex with you unless you want them to.

I'll concede that there are a few annoying enemies. The skull ghost is super frustrating to fight against since I'm still not sure how you actually dodge/avoid the skull. Some of the "red" ghosts (damage only) are similarly difficult, since they attack fast. You can still stun them with the right timing, though.
 

Detective Cancer

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I figured some of that out myself after a bit but it's still pretty easy to get trapped by enemies in a few of the rooms.
 

Xol

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Some tips which people may find helpful:
So let me begin by saying I appreciate the notion, but, well....

While the time that ghosts decide to attack is RNG, the attacks themselves are fairly scripted. They typically slide away from the player right before an attack. If you move in the opposite direction, you can usually easily stun/attack when they're on their way to you.
That *would* be helpful if all the ghosts moved in sync and stayed on the same side- but as it is, it is all too common to end up with one attacking from the opposite side right about the same time as the one you're trying to target for your stun, leaving pretty much everything up to luck, in the end. This is true even fairly early in the game. Even just a cluster of "hand" ghosts- the "newbie" enemy your start out with- can kick your ass due to pure bad luck.

Also, for "white" ghosts (most of them), when they're about to grapple you, an arrow appears in the top, right, bottom, or left of the screen. Press that arrow key in a short amount of time and you'll be released from the grapple with no damage. Later in the game this gets more difficult since it requires multiple keypresses, but it's pretty easy in the beginning, to the point where the ghosts should never be having sex with you unless you want them to.
Yeah I forgot to mention that whole mechanic in my review. Its horseshit. The game is already throwing more than enough maddening nonsense at you as it is, without mixing up grapples like that. You're trained to rapidly hit arrow keys to escape a grapple (like in most porn-games like this), so to randomly throw in a quicktime event where you actually have to match specific directions in order to avoid a worse situation is absolute garbage.

And I absolutely, thoroughly disagree on the "easy in the beginning" assertion. Are you using some kind of slow-mo cheat or something? At no point is it anything but infuriating. Even once I learned to recognize that sometimes an attack would result in such a situation, and learned to wait and try and match the right button(s) (which in itself only hindered my combat overall since it meant I'd initially delay any time I was caught, just to see if it was a "mash back and forth quickly to escape" grapple or a quicktime "match the prompts" grapple), it goes by way too fast to adequately recognize it and hit the right key. I can only assume you're a master at rhythm games if you think that it's "easy".

I'll concede that there are a few annoying enemies. The skull ghost is super frustrating to fight against since I'm still not sure how you actually dodge/avoid the skull. Some of the "red" ghosts (damage only) are similarly difficult, since they attack fast. You can still stun them with the right timing, though.
And I maintain that there no non-annoying enemies as long as they are in groups. (which is almost always the case) Some are definitely worse than others, but none are easy, unless you're facing them solo.


I appreciate your attempt at being helpful, and I hope you don't take any of this as hostility at you (any hostility I have is more meant to be aimed at the game itself, I promise), but there's just no amount of "advice" that can make up for such a horrendous combat system with way too much going on at once. And the RNG rapes you harder than any of the ghosts ever could.
 

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My strategy was to get near a save point and then max out my skill sets. After that I was able to one shot most baddies. Boss battles were less epic too. However, between a subpar boss battle and getting cheesed by unpredictable enemy patterns, I'll chose munchkin any day. The last battle still took me four attempts at max stats. Most of it was getting the pattern down. Then it came down to luck on the RNG.

I beat version 1.07.

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kayot

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Na, it's portrayed as good. I just feel it's more bittersweet than anything. Also, I apparently have to replay the game. I can't find my save in my backups :<
 

Detective Cancer

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It does have NG+
I'm hoping I have the time to play it again this weekend and beat it.
I like Metroidvanias and if they have lewds in them it's a good bonus.
Despite the combat, that is.
 

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All this talk about other endings, the one I got was Vena entered a contract with the arm and everyone lived.
I wonder if you all got the other pages since that's the only thing I can think of that really stood out as an ending variable.
 

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Tag your spoilers guys, some people might actually be engaged by this porn game's plot.
I am, slightly, I don't usually care for plot but sometimes I do.
 

kayot

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I'm more than half way through the game again. I lost my save :< so I have to. I reached the first save point, grinded to max levels, and I'm now curb stomping my way through the game. It's a lot easier to enjoy the story when I'm one/two hit killing bosses. That will slow down the further in I go. Final boss fights still going to be a pain since I was max level when I did that last time.

I must unlock the gallery again!

When it comes to notes, I thought I had to pick them all up to proceed in the story. Is this not the case?
 
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I can't even get past the dumbass tree ghost that rapes you from behind, this is god awful, is that the end already after 2 seconds into the game? Fucking dumb
 

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I'm pretty sure that the "update" in this thread is actually test version that Vosmug released to look for bugs. You can try downloading the new 1.09 file from , overwrite that into the game folder and see if that gets rid of the overlay. And should have a much easier time with it too, since one of the bugs was apparently that the game would automatically switch to the new extra hard mode after a certain scripted event.
 
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