Books don't matter that much if you are not sure that you need them. They could help but you could also spend a lot of time on them without expected results.
And the main way of improving stats is Workshop.
And the main way of improving stats is Workshop.
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There's a blacksmith. When you enter the first city, go to the left and the first building with a shield-like symbol. But don't use living heart for yourself, keep those for your slime instead.
Oh yes, slime. You are able to summon a slime as a companion in your adventures every single day. You can feed your slime every two days. Increasing the slime's XP as well as stats. It's xp increase is based on 5% of the base value of an item.
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If you're going for a pure run, money is BRUTAL. There are things you need to pay for later in the game which are very costly.
Raising HP is not something you typically worry about-it stays low for awhile, then there's a boss around the halfway point of the game (depending when you choose to tackle him) who has a special item that gives a huge hp boost. Raising ATK and MATK are generally priorities, then AGI, and then some on MDF.
Thanks for the help. I'm like 90% sure I already screwed my run, but so far it seems the game is /designed/ for you to screw your run and face the consequences, so I'll see how it goes.
I'm really worried about the echo here on the lategame though, as for all that apparently the game is designed for corrupted Aura to be bad end Aura, it's also not designed for, well, good end Aura to exist. I really hope the people who talked about the lack of content unless we go full corruption were vastly exxagerating, and that my fears are only grounded on all the other porn games which did that.
I'm really worried about the echo here on the lategame though, as for all that apparently the game is designed for corrupted Aura to be bad end Aura, it's also not designed for, well, good end Aura to exist. I really hope the people who talked about the lack of content unless we go full corruption were vastly exxagerating, and that my fears are only grounded on all the other porn games which did that.
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First of all, the game really IS designed to prevent Aura from remaining uncorrupted. Though, there's degrees to everything. While it's mathematically possible to keep corruption down to a minimum, that requires knowing where everything is, more or less, and playing perfectly. It's quite frankly impossible to do perfectly well on the 1st run simply because there's a lot of stuff you don't know about and the game doesn't warn you about. (Mainly because there's no way for Aura to realistically have that information herself.)
A good example is the slime summon. The slime summon can be strengthened by feeding it mats, and it gains the stats offered by those mats the same way Aura would if she used that material at the Workshop, and also XP based on the value of the mat. However... The summon slime spell goes up by 2 MP every time you feed the slime... so the spell's cost can go up FAST for little actual gain if you're not careful... and the only way to limit this (and further improve the slime) is Bonding... which is a lewd event.
The difference between a slime with zero bonding and a slime with bonding 3 is... quite frankly absurd. In total, all 3 bonding levels gave you... uh... 30-40 to all of the slime's stats? I don't remember exactly... but suffice to say a Bond 3 slime can easily have notably stronger stats than a well invested late-game Aura.
Another example is the Alchemist discount. For just showing the old-fart Aura's panties once, you get a permanent 40% discount, which adds up with the 10% discount you get for giving him an ingredient, which means that with a bit of care, you can have a permanent 50% discount whenever you shop from the guy. The amount of money you save up with that is huge, and if you're trying to keep Aura even remotely "pure", for whatever value that's worth in this game, then that's a bargain that's easy to make.
Ultimately, the game is full of temptations, and you have to figure out which compromises to make, and when, that will actually seriously benefit Aura, and which ones will fuck her over in the end. Because the above examples? Those ones don't really have any negative consequences aside from 1 corruption point per scene, a bit of lewdness and in the case of slime bonding 2 and 3, a total of 4 Max Willpower loss (which is no big deal if you do things carefully and use a couple of books that give you 10 Max Willpower each.)
There are other deals which will fuck you over hard even if they seem like they have good benefits in the short run, and there's not always big neon signs warnings for which ones those are. There are some warnings, but you have to talk with NPCs and whatnot and actually pay attention to what's being said...
Either way, I wouldn't worry too much on a 1st run. Just save often and remember to save-scum properly and you'll do fine. If I could hit Ending A after 321 days of play, odds are anyone can. That's 160 corruption from the passage of time alone btw. I have no idea how much was earned from various other sources...
This appears once I try to fight any battle
Is it normal? Is it because I'm playing it on 1.0.0?
Is it normal? Is it because I'm playing it on 1.0.0?
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Yeah I didn't mean it in a bad way - it's very clear from the get go Aura doesn't know a lot of things, and there are traps everywhere all around her. This is basically why Richard and Alicia are so confident. I do think "playing in character" would have her refuse basically all temptations until she run into a wall though... but also, a pure run has to do mental gymnastic for why Alicia never uses the corruption lol (and, huh, later on that amount of corruption probably amounts to like 70+, so it means flat out not talking to anyone until using willpower restoring items).
I also completely understand how the devs just don't have infinite time, and this game already took a very long time to make. I just personally believe that considering how much the game is about balancing your ressources, it would be great if there was a lot of scenes through the game (say, day 60+) to cheer on Aura doing awesome stuff earth-wise as she remains uncorrupted, not just because "there is clear love from the dev about the balance of ressource of mechanics, so engaging with that balance and succeeding ought to have a reward", but also, well, "there is no difference between corruption and no corruption if the no corruption path doesn't show how great she could be", imo.
Still, for all I know there are kickass "Aura ruins Richard's life on earth midway through the game if she stay uncorrupted" scenes alread and I'm just being silly.
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"but also, a pure run has to do mental gymnastic for why Alicia never uses the corruption lol "
I always see it as Aura ending up locking out Alicia and making it impossible for her to make any sort of progress in her mental world. Alicia gets frustrated but ultimately doesn't mind. Since higher corruption = less willpower. And if it doesn't get managed properly, Aura becomes weaker with low enough willpower and might be forced to waste an entire day if it ever reaches 0
That's just me though lol.
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I mean, part of the problem is that you HAVE to spend corruption with Alicia anyway because if you don't, you hit the cap, and if you hit the cap, Aura dies, which no one wants, not even Richard... No. Especially Richard. Trying to play close to the cap is massively risky tbh, partly because of the willpower loss, but also because, if Alicia were to take that risk with the express purpose of weakening Aura... Aura herself doesn't actually know about the corruption cap consciously.
So, while YOU, the player know and manage these things, the fact is that realistically, Alicia would need to be careful because staying to close to the cap could mean that a collar removal and an event or two could push Aura far enough over the cap that nothing she can do will put her under... and then Aura dies. Game Over.
As for what happens on Earth if Aura doesn't get mental changes (or too many mental changes)...
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Nightmare run, NO mental changes, had just over 50 corruption and still somehow made it to the end.
I had a max amount of 86 corruption btw, just to be clear. So I had a LOT of time left to do my things with.
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Was that a NG+ or a base run? Because even a mediocre NG+ run can change things massively depending on what you pick-up for Aura.Nightmare run, NO mental changes, had just over 50 corruption and still somehow made it to the end.
I had a max amount of 86 corruption btw, just to be clear. So I had a LOT of time left to do my things with.
Either way, that clearly wasn't a 1st run. I don't want to imagine the amount of work you need to put in to plan basically everything to pull that off. Or the amount of save-scumming you'll need to deal with RNG in various places....
So the beginning of the game reminded me why I thought Aura could become the next demonlord when fully corrupted. When Alice and inner Aura talk, she boasts Alice is never going to win, no matter what... which really made me thought, she defeated them as the hero in the beginning, but they (Alice and richard) didnt see the red flags, if the they were to fully corrupt her and was to become a demon lord herself. That rule the heron cant kill the demon lord, will also not apply to her. It be a demon lord fighting another demon lord. Even if she was to become a fallen hero instead, she just be as strong as Starless Knight, but on the opposite side. Its why I always thought, Richard never thought this through properly because hes just so eager to make Aura his to not see the consequences and hight Aura can reach. . Hes short sighted. His meddling on her would have to backfire for sure.
But reading the endings the other night here. I am disappointed nothing came from this. From what was spoken at least from the endings by the people here. Inner Aura telling Alice she can never win should of been the give away. Because they would not defeat Aura fully corrupted either. Which is what inner Aura should of been implying to Alice. If you read between the lines :3
But reading the endings the other night here. I am disappointed nothing came from this. From what was spoken at least from the endings by the people here. Inner Aura telling Alice she can never win should of been the give away. Because they would not defeat Aura fully corrupted either. Which is what inner Aura should of been implying to Alice. If you read between the lines :3
Well I started the game in explorer and it said it prevented some type of soul game over.. I guess that was it.. Im just playing for the story tho, but story mode difficult seemed like it be boring ( a cake walk) .. I didnt want to spend too much time grinding (fighting HP sponge enemies) so I thought explorer might be ok. to progress the game a bit faster. And since I intend to corrupt Aura. preventing the bad end is good I guess ?
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I have a different headcanon on it.
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Ultimately the mental room is an abstraction, though, so you can project a few different interpretations on what's happening in there when corruption isn't being spent.
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Y'know, all this talk about the game made me think about some facts that the game reveals that the player is aware of, but Aura isn't.
But it's mega-spoilery, so I'll put it under a spoiler.
But it's mega-spoilery, so I'll put it under a spoiler.
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Is there enough star metal in the game to fully upgrade both workshops? If not, which one is better to max out?
Ooof.
The amusing thing is early Aura shows that none of this should really apply to her. She isn't the type to settle with "nothing can be done", and she immediately suspect Luciela is Aura within the first few days. I at the very least expected the corruption route to go down the "the reason Aura reconnects with Alica is to check whether she is Luciela" trope (and how she does that is coloured by the corruption), while I wanted "if Aura is uncorrupted, she also decides to investigate it, but differently."
Aura just... not connecting with her friends at all anymore if she is uncorrupted and not doing a two pronged assault is just such a missed opportunity, but I can see how that decision ended up being made.
If the core conceit of the show is "see how the corruption produces cascading changes" rather than "see how Aura deals with the corruption colouring her actions", well. It's very disappointing, but, once again there is no unlimited dev time, and it's important to keep close to a core if you ever want to finish a well done game.
There is imo such a ludonarrative dissonance between the Royan set up of Aura always needing to be careful about people constantly trying to catch her, her immediately noticing a lot of it, and trying to do the best she can about it, and "but for earth, huh, the gameplay is all about /not/ taking the Royan gameplay seriously", however.
This is impressive as heck, how long ingame day wise did it take you?Nightmare run, NO mental changes, had just over 50 corruption and still somehow made it to the end.
I had a max amount of 86 corruption btw, just to be clear. So I had a LOT of time left to do my things with.
It follows the tropes of a porn subgenre bit too closely there yeah. The whole "if you are going to show the fall of a great woman, gotta make sure she falls for the absolutely most pathetic person" subgenre of porn.
Note that the talk can be read a bit differently though as it's between Alicia and Aura.
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Huh. Interesting, guess I'll see some details when I do a corrupted playthrough eventually. Not gonna be too soon though, I need a break from this game. XD
As for Dolus, I honestly don't have any sympathy for him. He had 1000 years to do basically anything, during which time he was essentially invincible because no one could realistically stop him and his bullshit... and he achieved nothing in that time except for creating misogynistic traditions in the Demon Cult and the whole Maid Academy bullshit. He's by far the biggest fuck-up in the whole game.
While to an extent, I get where you're coming from, realistically, Aura simply has hard limits to what she can actually do on Earth. Also, as said before, she doesn't believe that the stuff on Earth is important. There's no magic on Earth and there's no direct connection between the actions on Earth and the actions in Roya. Not to mention that, as established during the prologue, killing Richard on Earth would just ensure that he's the Demon Lord full time in Roya and solves absolutely nothing. The same applies to Luciela. Even if she absolutely proved somehow that Alicia was Luciela, it wouldn't really change much... at least in her mind.
It's also established from the get-go that Aura is... quite frankly... a bit of an arrogant idiot. Her subconscious self exemplifies this clearly when she meets Alicia. For all that she's book-smart, she's not actually all that smart in the people sense. The idea of gradual, seemingly insignificant changes to her mind feeding into major changes which then feed into the complete alteration of her self doesn't occur to her at all. Even though that's really the first thing that she should have thought of.
In general, Aura exhibits a tendency of being really stupid about some things...
Which is... tbh... fairly consistent with a teenager. They're often dumber than they think they are and this definitely applies to Aura. If she was actually as smart as she thought she was, there would have been plenty of ways for her to foil various parts of Richard's plan from the prologue itself. I mean really... not even suspecting a trap and walking face-first into it was amazingly dumb... Accepting that split-up was also amazingly dumb. If she played things smart during the prologue, odds are that she could have saved at least George, leaving her with one full powered companion even if everything else went the same, which would have changed the equation completely.
If/when you do a corruption playthrough, or just add in corruption as you push towards murderizing Richard in Roya, you'll see that as the mental changes pile up, Aura gets confronted about said changes at certain points, and she completely dismisses the possibility that those changes are in any way related to the Curse. In her mind, the Curse and its changes are only linked to Roya, not Earth, and the idea that Luciela might be spending her time to turn her into a monster on Earth specifically, or where that might lead, just doesn't click.
As for her friends on Earth... I can get why Aura didn't involve Rose, after all, she didn't have anything to really prove her experiences in Roya. However, she DID have something for George, because George tells her something in the prologue that he never did on Earth, and talking to him about it would have been fairly solid proof that something fucked up happened. That said, she didn't want to worry him about it all when he was so busy with his family, and when he was powerless to do anything from Earth while she kept going to Roya every night. It's a reasonable impulse tbh... but obviously stupid given the circumstances.