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Want to give a quick little summary of my thoughts on this game:

+ The game has some really high quality CGs, a huge amount of content (I mean hundreds of hours if you want to try and unlock every CG) and actual gameplay. It's very rare to find a game this ambitious in this category.

- However, and these are some of the biggest detractors: the game is extremely tedious and very grindy. You will NOT be able to complete it without the PAID guide, I repeat you will NOT!!!! be able to complete it without the PAID guide. At times you have to go through 40 locations tediously clicking to find something you missed - and this is WITH a guide. I do not remotely think this game is completable without the guide, at least, not without huge amounts of frustration. The paid for guide is somewhat useful but even then you might still have to go into the discord and ask for help.

- You will have to replay through vast swathes of the game again to unlock different CGs as you can only have one romance at the time.

- Combat is repetitive and slow, multiple times just wanted to skip it

If you do buy the game, I beg of you to use a save editor to give yourself more resources/energy/romance scores otherwise the grind is monumental. You can use this: https://www.saveeditonline.com/
Find your save files in %appdata% renpy, ergi.

A good game that could use some checkpoints (other than saves) so you don't have to redo entire chapters for different romantic interests. Adding a cheat menu would be great.

ynv27 days ago(-2)

hi, i will just make some points about the paid guides' issue- you dont need to use them to play the game.

simply playing, paying attention to conversations and checking the mission log will be enough to get you through the game. the discord server for the game exists exactly for cases where you are not sure about something and getting stuck. you can and should ask there for help, and other players will be happy to help you. there are also some guides for the romance part. interacting with other players can add to the experience.

will you miss out content without the extensive guides? most likely. will you make mistakes? yes. not every run is perfect, and thats perfectly fine. the paid guides were supposed to be for patreon's vanir backers only. they are sold here seperatly because players asked for another way to get them.

Raeth27 days ago (1 edit) (+2)

No, you don't NEED to use a guide to "play" the game, but without it you WILL get stuck, you WILL miss key choices, you MAY potentially lock yourself out of a romance and waste your time playing through multiple chapters before you realise your mistake. The mission log is very generic - forgot the exact details? Oh, well best get to clicking around. Got stuck? Ah well, best go to the discord and wait for someone to respond.

I think it's disengenous to new players to give them the wrong idea going into this game. It can be confusing and complex. For a renpy novel made by such a small team, its brilliant - but If you want to make your life easier, just buy the guide - otherwise expect intense frustration

I also think you touched on something very important here: "Will you make mistakes? yes. Not every run is perfect" One of the main issues with this game is the amount of time it takes to play through it for one romance. Mess something up? Well that's another 30 hours bucko. Better to try and get everything right the first time so you don't have to redo hours and hours worth of content.

gettruckin8424 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

I 100% agree with your comment. Im currently going into chapter 8 with five different characters which means Ive played through every chapter, since chapter 2, multiple times. There is NO way I could do it without a guide, ESPECIALLY chapters 4 and 5, and I would be tearing my hair out if I tried to do it naturally. Even WITH the guide I have made a few mistakes on my Henrik and Tyr routes and it makes total sense to warn people about the drawbacks. The positives totally outweigh the negatives, so I enjoy my time, but some of the lows, especially the battle system, and the drawn out sections, could turn some players off. I wish I knew how to work a save editor, but unfortunately Im all thumbs with those kind of things so Ive been doing it the long way. Ive thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game, especially the world and characters its built, but man, I wish I could skip combat entirely. I probably wont go back cor a while to catch up the 4 routes I left behind(Borge, Ralf, Erland, and Kirk), unless I figure a way to make it quicker.

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