Others Completed The Shimmering Horizon and Cursed Blacksmith [v1.02r] [Ason]

[dududtuyu]

Any way to get Ordinary memories? I've collected all the Hero memories from 1 to 26, all the memories of Elite monster girls, 11 End of the road memories, but im still missing some Ordinary memories...
Are those random drops from enemies or is there a concrete way to get them?

 

[13kimg]

Other than weight and drop rate bonus, is there any other reason to beat the game on Hardcore?
Currently on it and I feel like the second boss is insanely difficult.

 

[DuniX]

Other than weight and drop rate bonus, is there any other reason to beat the game on Hardcore?
Currently on it and I feel like the second boss is insanely difficult.

The same reason why you would play any game on Hardcore, the Challenge, the Achievement.

The game is fair in terms of difficulty as it gives you all the tools you need although it is a bit grindy by design.

 

[Ahoura]

where is Doroelle at after you beat the Phantom Empress? I've looked everywhere yet haven't found her at all

 

[bobby006]

does shanoa have new scene besides the one after a drink?
Stanga to for that matter after the demo

if there are what are their unlock condition?

 

[Akren]

hardcore is for people who know all the mechanics of the various bosses and cheese methods and want to show it off.
it's grindy on normal just because of how quickly your initial level gets outscaled by enemies, by chapter 4 start, you can't immediately enter layer 4 without really good weapons (insane damage, or high damage high kb% or good ranged skill/aoe spam) and that's not profitable (duh). in fact even if you enter layer 3 it's suspect without a decent weapon (high damage or decent damage with kb/range) and for a gathering run you probably want to start from layer 2 and climb up for extra exp.

I haven't tested it yet but it's probably good to put a true sight potion on a cheap but sturdy accessory so you have better chance of detecting traps. late traps are brutal to just run into, esp if you tend to clear every room.

Really wish there was the nuke buttons like maidensnow eve has with the judgement scrolls, you could alway spam 2 or 3 to clear a room (or the general area 10ish tiles if open field map).

 

[AbayRil]

1.03 download?

 

[OmegaArk]

It be nice if there was an accessory upgrade table at base.
Also, whats the difference between red and blue accessory upgrade table.

 

[Bobveela]

It be nice if there was an accessory upgrade table at base.
Also, whats the difference between red and blue accessory upgrade table.

Red is offense blue is defense

I would love a table showing accessory chest locations. specifically I'm trying to find the accessory that lowers durability use.

Edit: Also the altars that say "You who are blessed with the spirit of x... identify your House." Is there a list of the required weapons for these?

 

[DuniX]

I haven't tested it yet but it's probably good to put a true sight potion on a cheap but sturdy accessory so you have better chance of detecting traps. late traps are brutal to just run into, esp if you tend to clear every room.

From my understanding you need both range and detect chance, so the accessory needs both the Offense and Defense Effects on a accessory, and how much you get from potions is limited anyway.
So you would need to make a weapon that stacks those effects to make it into an essence or find an accessory that already has that effect stacked.
You are honestly better off using the Defense Charm that protects you from traps automatically.

Really wish there was the nuke buttons like maidensnow eve has with the judgement scrolls, you could alway spam 2 or 3 to clear a room (or the general area 10ish tiles if open field map).

That's how the Forbidden Blade is intended for but that costs Erosion.

in fact even if you enter layer 3 it's suspect without a decent weapon (high damage or decent damage with kb/range) and for a gathering run you probably want to start from layer 2 and climb up for extra exp.

You can generally remake a decent weapon with materials on the map, it's good to have a heroine weapon material on hand to have something reliable.
Where you get screwed with crafting is with the amount of enchantments and if you want to craft a specific weapon, that is best done at the base with materials you collect.
The problem with not being able to craft weapons reliably is that you keep losing the Skill Levels and the good Enchantment Effects.

Really half of the issues people have with the grind in the game could be solved if they just gave you +20 more additional Storage Slots initially.

 

[Hodedra]

where is Doroelle at after you beat the Phantom Empress? I've looked everywhere yet haven't found her at all

Ask the other girls and enter (then return) from the labyrinth once.

 

[Facha1234]

How do you skip a turn?

C+X (the one to change facing direction+cancel button)

 

[Minzuila]

Does anyone know how to get hero memories 9, 19, and 22? I don’t know where to find them, and I’ve been running around for hours trying to locate them.

 

[SeltzerSellout]

The game isn't running for me on Linux, the game's window opens up but stays stuck at the main menu.
I use GE-Proton through Lutris.

It's weird because it's a RPGmaker game, there shouldn't be such problems but the weird software they use (some sort of DRM?) causes issues that aren't there normally. Anyone found a solution? Else, anyone able to run the game through wine/proton without issues?

 

[SomeoneElseToo]

...

GE-Proton - no idea.
But plain wine seems to work (or at least it did around 1.0 of this game).

 

[Akren]

From my understanding you need both range and detect chance, so the accessory needs both the Offense and Defense Effects on a accessory, and how much you get from potions is limited anyway.
So you would need to make a weapon that stacks those effects to make it into an essence or find an accessory that already has that effect stacked.
You are honestly better off using the Defense Charm that protects you from traps automatically.


That's how the Forbidden Blade is intended for but that costs Erosion.


You can generally remake a decent weapon with materials on the map, it's good to have a heroine weapon material on hand to have something reliable.
Where you get screwed with crafting is with the amount of enchantments and if you want to craft a specific weapon, that is best done at the base with materials you collect.
The problem with not being able to craft weapons reliably is that you keep losing the Skill Levels and the good Enchantment Effects.

Really half of the issues people have with the grind in the game could be solved if they just gave you +20 more additional Storage Slots initially.

Re: Defense charm:
True. But it's really not reliable to get defense charms compared to true sight pot, and they run out super fast.

Re: forbidden blade
No, that's not even close. Forbidden blade skills can barely cover half a room, it's for clearing your immediate vicinity (and it's not that much better than repulsion stone). It does basically nothing on a distortion map, for example, whereas the judgement scrolls in Maidensnow can hit an entire corner (aka most of the enemies on the map), and spamming 2-3 of them basically kills any amount of anything.

re: decent weapon
It's a lot better if you're actually racking up the perma-boost souls, but i haven't done enough runs for that. I also don't really bother with enchant effects beyond 'deal more damage' because big number makes brain feel good (though i do understand that getting stuff like sleep%, stun%, kb% especially are strong). I also like hoarding my best weapons and feel kinda shitty using nukes on normal enemies, though now i have shanoa i should probably be less of a stickler considering i've stockpiled like 10 weapons in the chest and carry another 5.

re: initial storage slots
Generally yeah, would help a ton, though there is the “fun” part that for true hoarders, no amount of inventory space is enough (see the above).

 

[Noah Neim]

Like, let's be real, man. It's a miracle that this game is released at all by this point.

Things weren't that dire lol, the real bad scenario is the game flopping, which clearly isnt the case given thatthe thread went from being on suicide watch to this.

 

[SeltzerSellout]

GE-Proton - no idea.
But plain wine seems to work (or at least it did around 1.0 of this game).

Around 1.0 there was a version that used regular RPGmaker with unpacked files floating around. With this one, I was able to load the game and play. But there were frequent crashes, rendering it unplayable. With the current DLsite version and latest version, the game still uses a packed version which is non-standard for rpgmaker games. The game will boot normally in a VM but for some reason I'm getting issues running it through proton-GE. It might just be me though. But I'd be happy to find a solution to make the game files look more like a regular RPGMaker game with fully extracted assets.
The problem though, is that I believe doing that causes the crashes. And the game requires too high perfs to be run through a VM without GPU passthrough.

 

[lorddavid]

After I got killed and get here, the game is broken, can't not moving or do anything

 

[DuniX]

Re: Defense charm:
True. But it's really not reliable to get defense charms compared to true sight pot, and they run out super fast.

If you check shop regularly you can have all kinds of goodies given that you have the souls on hand.
And you should check what kind of effects they have, some can be useful.

I also like hoarding my best weapons and feel kinda shitty using nukes on normal enemies, though now i have shanoa i should probably be less of a stickler considering i've stockpiled like 10 weapons in the chest and carry another 5.

My rule of thumb is if I have the materials on hand to craft it, especially the heroine weapons I should be able to use it next, I can keep the essence and scrap to craft it better in base or make it directly in the dungeon if I take the heroine material but with possible worse results in terms of enchantments.

Enchanting accessories with skills is a bit of a trap as you always lose them, so only use them for a boss run, you are always better of keeping your Max Skill Wind Knifer with a bunch of haste enchantments then putting that on accessory.
Although mobility skills can be good on accessories for a boss run.

I also don't really bother with enchant effects beyond 'deal more damage' because big number makes brain feel good (though i do understand that getting stuff like sleep%, stun%, kb% especially are strong).

You can do some intresting builds if you can consistently craft weapons with certain effects and skills.
Like combo Elemental Charge skills or Elemental Damage Multipliers with Elemental AoE weapons.
The Bat Summon you can put Physical Damage on them if you use the summoning consumables.
You have things that spawn things on mobility skills, although that is hard to stack on weapons.
You can get secondary effects on Knockback and other Debuffs.

Basically the more you can consistently craft the same weapon and accumulate their effect the more game breaking it becomes.
So it's important to not waste scraps and essences and do most of your crafting at base where you can guarantee the weapon and good enchantments.