RPGM Completed Star Knightess Aura [v1.1.1] [aura-dev]

[BoomerangApple]

Not sure if anyone ever attempts it anymore, but it used to be all the rage to complete everything possible without ever making a single mental change, not even unlocking any of the rooms in the first chamber.

Basically if you look at the stone tablet in the NG+/gallery room, it explains to you how the scores are calculated, and maximizing the victory score involves not gaining a single point of lewdness or vice.

Winning definitely should be possible on the easiest difficulty, but of course depends on your skills.

Is there a difference between a "perfect run" and one that you beat with many mental changes and/or sexual stuff done?

 

[Zarkhy]

Is there a difference between a "perfect run" and one that you beat with many mental changes and/or sexual stuff done?

Well first of all, your NG+ score is going to be different, and winning with many mental changes and lewd stuff leads to a bad score.

Secondly, there are variations on the victory ending depending on how much corrupt stuff you did (and with who). Such as Aura may keep sleeping with some people.

 

[BoomerangApple]

Well first of all, your NG+ score is going to be different, and winning with many mental changes and lewd stuff leads to a bad score.

Secondly, there are variations on the victory ending depending on how much corrupt stuff you did (and with who). Such as Aura may keep sleeping with some people.

Ok

Does the same apply to the corruption end? So far there are only the corruption end, pure end and the Greed bad end right?

 

[Zarkhy]

Ok

Does the same apply to the corruption end? So far there are only the corruption end, pure end and the Greed bad end right?

Well the "defeat" score is calculated differently, you'll get a good score (significantly less than best possible victory score) if you just maximize lewdness and vice.

And yes, those are the endings if you don't account for the variations and don't count the soul-break ending (going over corruption limit) as a real ending.

Roland bad end coming with 1.2 soon-ish.

 

[BoomerangApple]

Well the "defeat" score is calculated differently, you'll get a good score (significantly less than best possible victory score) if you just maximize lewdness and vice.

And yes, those are the endings if you don't account for the variations and don't count the soul-break ending (going over corruption limit) as a real ending.

Roland bad end coming with 1.2 soon-ish.

So the score translates into NG+ points, which you can use to buff your next run(s)? And you only get score from playing non-story(easiest) mode difficulties?

I started playing Normal but then I felt I was playing poorly so I restarted and did some unguided story playthrough but then I felt like restarting again and now I'm at the Greed Festival and got the bad end, this game seems involved enough to actually care about the gameplay so I'm considering my options on how to move forward.

Maybe I'll try a legit normal run where I try to go for full corruption...

Regardless, this is what I learned about the game so far:
-resources are tightly controlled, there is seemingly no random drops, no grinding possible for anything. The only source of infinite money in theory is the blacksmith but you are still paying in 0.5 corruption a day, I'm not sure how runs incorporate working there.
-no healing magic(so far) and no way to recover mana obviously means that you actually might need to win battles efficiently or avoid them(I definitely need to play on a controller or pc because on phone avoiding enemies with touch controls is madness) if you want to do more in a day.
-there seem to be puzzle-like mechanics I overlooked, so I guess speedreading is not the name of the game here.

Stuff I'm wondering:
-is it actually good to stay at the highest corruption and simply avoid death by staying just below the cap so that you delay mental changes? Or is it better to stay at 0 corruption?
-from what I read here there seem to be some bosses that need the collar to be beaten, but I wonder if there are beatable bosses you want to use the collar on to beat earlier than you could normally
-are there tricks to get NG+ points that you can do by ending the game earlier? Just wondering if you could farm some points to get some low cost buffs that make your complete runs much easier.
-some resources can be used in multiple ways, like ethers being used to infuse your armor or for mana crystals. I'm not sure which you want more.
-how to use the slime? It competes with you for armor resources, but you can waste less time to feed it over buffing yourself. I've honestly 0 idea how to to efficiently build up the slime

Spoiler questions:
-Why does Richard look like that? I know that's the cliche gyaru-oh look for NTR plots but it feels kinda forced on him.
-What's Richard's endgame? Having gotten Maid Bad End I'm left wondering given what he reveals there and what he makes Aura go through... (also it would be nice if you could keep developing the game and gain a connection through him that way, fuck this linear system!)

 

[smkey21]

Willpower - 100 > Lewdness is the requirement to pass the check if you didn't resist at all during the 3 days working. Max willpower is irrelevant, other than making it impossible to pass the check at that point without cheating due to the willpower loss during the scene. 200 Willpower is more than enough to pass, but the minimum required Willpower value is [101 + Lewdness] at the time of the check, or [131 + Lewdness] before entering the room.

Considering I was responding to a post asking how to cheat to pass the check that had mentioned trying to edit lewdness, I felt it was easiest to just pick a number that was certain to pass the check and suggest it. I've not really messed around with editing the willpower variable, so I figured it would be safer to also edit max willpower as well in case the game clamps willpower to max willpower before it does further calculations. Your numbers seem off, but since the conclusion that Aura can't pass the check in 1.1 without resisting is accurate, discussing the exact breakpoint seems largely academic.

 

[BoomerangApple]

Do NG+ buffs carry for all nexts playthroughs or just 1?

 

[Zarkhy]

Stuff I'm wondering:
-is it actually good to stay at the highest corruption and simply avoid death by staying just below the cap so that you delay mental changes? Or is it better to stay at 0 corruption?
-from what I read here there seem to be some bosses that need the collar to be beaten, but I wonder if there are beatable bosses you want to use the collar on to beat earlier than you could normally
-are there tricks to get NG+ points that you can do by ending the game earlier? Just wondering if you could farm some points to get some low cost buffs that make your complete runs much easier.
-some resources can be used in multiple ways, like ethers being used to infuse your armor or for mana crystals. I'm not sure which you want more.
-how to use the slime? It competes with you for armor resources, but you can waste less time to feed it over buffing yourself. I've honestly 0 idea how to to efficiently build up the slime

No corruption is better than lots of corruption. Every point of corruption also lowers your willpower by 1, and starting at 60 willpower, you start getting a debuff that makes you a lot weaker.

Theoretically no bosses need remove collar to be beaten, there is a trick to most/all of them. But the main quest bosses, the Demon Generals, are pretty darn tough without collar. That said, if you're on story mode, maybe they're not that tough.

If you want NG+ points, do a lewd run and max out your lewdness and vice. Basically all you need to do is advance in the story far enough (past the Greed Festival) that more locations, such as the Underground Bar and the Drug Dealer, become available.

How to use materials and the slime are choices. There are strictly speaking no correct answers, and it depends on how you wish to play. Do you want to be a spellcaster in Defensive Stance? Infuse more spellcaster stuff and feed Slime melee stuff. Want to be a melee powerhouse in Offensive Stance? Feed the slime some magic power boosting stuff and learn to change it's element.

 

[smkey21]

Do NG+ buffs carry for all nexts playthroughs or just 1?

You keep your max score and all unlocks between all future playthroughs. The buffs you pick before restarting are applied to base Aura at the start of the new game though, so you can't 'stack' buffs to get progressively more powerful over multiple playthroughs.

 

[Zarkhy]

Do NG+ buffs carry for all nexts playthroughs or just 1?

You have the same number of points to spend.

You can't buy a skill in one run and then buy a different skill in the next run and still have them both, if that's what you're asking.

 

[BoomerangApple]

No corruption is better than lots of corruption. Every point of corruption also lowers your willpower by 1, and starting at 60 willpower, you start getting a debuff that makes you a lot weaker.

Theoretically no bosses need remove collar to be beaten, there is a trick to most/all of them. But the main quest bosses, the Demon Generals, are pretty darn tough without collar. That said, if you're on story mode, maybe they're not that tough.

If you want NG+ points, do a lewd run and max out your lewdness and vice. Basically all you need to do is advance in the story far enough (past the Greed Festival) that more locations, such as the Underground Bar and the Drug Dealer, become available.

How to use materials and the slime are choices. There are strictly speaking no correct answers, and it depends on how you wish to play. Do you want to be a spellcaster in Defensive Stance? Infuse more spellcaster stuff and feed Slime melee stuff. Want to be a melee powerhouse in Offensive Stance? Feed the slime some magic power boosting stuff and learn to change it's element.

So if you end the game earlier with a clear crystal you get the best out of the bad and good ending calculations? And given that bad ending stuff only requires stuff you can get earlier that means you can get an "easy" 80 points from a normal run?

You keep your max score and all unlocks between all future playthroughs. The buffs you pick before restarting are applied to base Aura at the start of the new game though, so you can't 'stack' buffs to get progressively more powerful over multiple playthroughs.

You have the same number of points to spend.

You can't buy a skill in one run and then buy a different skill in the next run and still have them both, if that's what you're asking.

So the points you get to spend are from your highest score achieved and you can always reassign them but NOT stack each new run?

 

[smkey21]

So if you end the game earlier with a clear crystal you get the best out of the bad and good ending calculations? And given that bad ending stuff only requires stuff you can get earlier that means you can get an "easy" 80 points from a normal run?



So the points you get to spend are from your highest score achieved and you can always reassign them but NOT stack each new run?

Yes. Basically. Yes.

 

[Zarkhy]

So if you end the game earlier with a clear crystal you get the best out of the bad and good ending calculations? And given that bad ending stuff only requires stuff you can get earlier that means you can get an "easy" 80 points from a normal run?

I'm not sure what you mean by ending the game earlier getting your the best out of the calculations.

I *think* you need to reach an ending for the score to be calculated/saved. Best to just do a lewd run for the 80 odd points.

So the points you get to spend are from your highest score achieved and you can always reassign them but NOT stack each new run?

Yes. Basically. Yes.

 

[BoomerangApple]

I'm not sure what you mean by ending the game earlier getting your the best out of the calculations.

I *think* you need to reach an ending for the score to be calculated/saved. Best to just do a lewd run for the 80 odd points.

I assumed you don't need to finish the game because I have gained 1/12 of a point which apparently ends up being 1 ng+ point from using the clear crystal.
But I guess a normal lewd run is not that hard either

Now I have to figure out how to play on a phone with a controller, touch controls are terrible

 

[Telolet]

You keep your max score and all unlocks between all future playthroughs. The buffs you pick before restarting are applied to base Aura at the start of the new game though, so you can't 'stack' buffs to get progressively more powerful over multiple playthroughs.

so we lose the skills too? fuck

 

[boringapocalypse]

Is it possible to continue the corruption while keeping Aura intelligent?

Also damn this game is indeed quite hard even in normal difficulty, I guess that's kinda the point but it's special in this genre.

Edit: Is it possible to do a perfect pure run? In the sense that Alicia is only allowed to open the first room's doors, maybe improve relations with Aura and maybe just insert herself in her life, nothing more than that.

I just completed a run where Rose still had high relations with Aura by the end of it (Aura did unbraid her hair though). Also, you can still get the "good/pure" victory ending even with max lewdness, getting the darker victory ending is dependant on certain mental changes and the events they trigger.

 

[tulbar]

Don't know if it was ever mentioned here before but I've found a funny glitch. Dunno what triggered it, but I'm after Roland's death went to Lorraine to learn Pierce III and every time I talk to her she reimburses me for what Roland was supposed to pay. So basicaly I'm getting 1500 gold and 40exp every time I talk to her.

 

[SuperMaxo]

Don't know if it was ever mentioned here before but I've found a funny glitch. Dunno what triggered it, but I'm after Roland's death went to Lorraine to learn Pierce III and every time I talk to her she reimburses me for what Roland was supposed to pay. So basicaly I'm getting 1500 gold and 40exp every time I talk to her.

I'm not certain, but I think that was fixed in 1.1.2 (not yet shared here)

 

[BoomerangApple]

Do Richard and Alicia die in the good ending?

 

[boringapocalypse]

Do Richard and Alicia die in the good ending?

It's somewhat ambiguous because Aura doesnt absorb them, and their Earth bodies are still functional, but their soul-selves appear to be dead yes