Ok I am stuck. I am not at 165 intelligence and -97 corruption and still can't do the scene where Ulfina and Wilhelm do a foursome with Hood and Fenris nor can I pass the Crucible. I also cannot get more heart branches and I can't even turn in the ones I have to Brunhilde. I gave her the first five, then I have gotten the Order branch and the Intertwined branch from Hood and Fenris. I know there's one in Happyville somewhere but I'll be damned if I can find it. I also can't find anything from a fairy to help the little girl from Grimmton cross into a new tale.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Hmm, ok, you have to go to the grandmother's house in Happyville area after you've survived dancing with the Happyville people. It'll let you go do it then, and the branch is in a chest right next to her house. Here's hoping that will unlock the rest of what I need...
EDIT 2: Nope that didn't unlock anything. I've literally done everything I can think of. Has anyone actually unlocked her full potential, is it even possible? If so how? Again, any help would be appreciated.
EDIT 3: Looking at the files, holy shit is this game harshly, brutally penalizing. Mistakes you don't even know are mistakes early on can cost you in the endgame with no way to go back and make up for the missed opportunity. For example, you have to have intelligence at 270 to even get the proper hint that the item needed for the little Grimmton girl is in the cave with the stone rolling puzzle where you get the Fairy Necklace. On the other hand, my copy is also bugged so that the item doesn't appear despite the switch for it to do so seeming to be in place. I'll work on fixing that later, I disabled the switch requirement and now it works. Fun times! But I digress.
I haven't found yet where to get those last three points of corruption loss, but I do know that at least one of the sets of intelligence points I'm missing is in the very early game and there's no way to know you've done anything wrong nor any chance to go back and fix it. In a game that doesn't have a New Game+ option, that is insanely brutal. As it stands, I altered my save to put my characters from endgame back into a save made at new game and forced my own New Game + but of course that shouldn't be necessary as if replaying things to get them right are going to be a requirement the developer should build the option in. It would also be nice if we were to get a set of hints at the end that would clue us in to some of the ways where we should have chosen differently, because right now without the guide assembled elsewhere in this thread about where to get the various intelligence boosts I'd still be lost on what I'm even missing and stabbing in the dark over the course of who knows how many playthroughs. I may be stubborn, but there would reach a point where even I'd give up and I imagine a lot of players would hit that point sooner than I.
None of this is meant as a slam on the developer, at all. I am well aware that we are playing an early incomplete release and there are clearly bugs still in the game and sections that are very clearly labeled as "this area is not finished at this time". I imagine most if not all of these bugs and balance issues and things like the needing a New Game+ if we're going to need to replay the story to get the best ending will be addressed by the dev, especially if we help her out with constructive suggestions and bug reports.
In the meantime, I am still working on my mods and will publish it here when I manage to get it to a point I'm satisfied with it. Right now I've tweaked the powers and adjusted a few enemies to reward significant amounts of AP in a few key areas so that it's easy to grind up more when needed. I have not addressed the levels of XP, AP, and Gold rewards needed throughout the game to make getting through it without doing a save edit to bump the characters to a decent level. I'm kinda dreading that level of work, especially knowing the developer will probably end up doing it for me. Which is as it should be, they're the ones making money on this project my mod will be a labor of love posted free for the community.
Anyhow, I'll keep you updated on my progress. I'm really hoping there'll be a new version sometime soon that will address some of these issues on the developer end and I can then concentrate on the stuff they chose not to do and adding certain shortcuts and cheats that will probably never be in the official game.