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The easiest way to find out for yourself:

a) Read the Guide by Redyoshi. Scroll to the latest chapter about what can be done. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HjgBoSAq4659ANHfDyhqaSqqgL9fdVHKBp3hZ2-auUE/...

b) Read the Patch Notes to find out what was added last.

Have you beaten the Mole-Dungeon??

Act4 and following will be just like in the BEST-Ending Guide with only minor Exceptions:

After Axel learns of the Sabotage, you can (and should) convince Thane to move to the Tavern.  You can chat with him.  After some time, both tribes will start to prepare festivities. Speak with both Chieftains and their Shopowners in the village. If you got trouble to follow the Kratos, look at the picture of my Best-Ending guide above. After you defeated the Kratos, you got another choice to make [Make another Important Savestate if you like]: Bring the Fruits to the Bull Tribe. This is necassary to prvent the Excution of the Lizard Prisoners at the next morning.

If you don't care about the Lizards Prisoners, this is your last chance to bring the Food to the Lizards Tribe and enjoy the Nauxus Romance. I do not recommend that.

After Thane is wounded, it is very important, that  Eyvind walks to the Bull Village at the next morning right away!!  If you take too long, Axel will execute the Lizards in your absence.  If you gave the Food to the Lizard Tribe, Eyvind will always be too late to intervene, even if Axel's Suspicion-Score is =< 3.

Next time you sleep at the tavern over Night (Bath is recommended to boost your HP/MP) the battle at the Tavern will break out.

If Thane is at the Tavern, you will gain the bloody/torn Cloth from him at the Tavern.

Once you recieved the torn Cloth and the last Quest, go to the temple and meet the Dragon in the Paintings.  Follow the Guide above or Red-Yoshis Guide to make Peace between both Tribes. You need two (2) Emblems to meet the Dragon. The torn Cloth is need to trigger the Dragon's thrid cutscene with a painting about Thane. [ Little Secret: It is possible to NOT ruin the Dragon's Painting. Just stay hidden and do NOT call Thane.] After the Scene a hidden Location is reaveld on the Map. To find out about the Steps in Detail and the hidden Location of the next Boss, look the guide above.

The concludes the Thane "No-Casualty" - Route.

From here i recommend to get Honey from Snow asap. Use the Honey to cook a meal for Bread. I also recommend to finish Thane's Hell Kitchen Quest. While Perith is gone, use the time to grind a few Levels and Money. Make sure that you got eight (8) in INT before befriending Rasmus. and at least ten (10) in Agility to  impress the old Fox. The  Lizards Talisman help. You could  also try to equip the Loincloth and drop the Wintercloth to "cheat" another point of Agility.

Good Luck.

Once you rescued Flo and the Soul Emblem, you can also try to collect twenty Stones for the Sauna. The HP - Boost given by the Sauna can help the Hero to beat the Tree Monster without Goo-Armor or other Bosses.

NOW is a very great moment to make an IMPORTANT Savestate and secure it. Save double if you must. If you want to try out diffrent outcomes of the Wars while the Lizard Spy is alive, you could reload from this points.

Act2 and the Rouhk Questline is exactly the same like the first Guide: Help Thane to Create a Fear-Bomb. Take the Quest from Selvy.  Trick Tomahawk. Both the Lizard-Trio and the Bulls survive. Learn more of their rescpected Culture from both Chieftains. Finish the Rouhk Questline.

AFTER that you may  create another IMPORTANT SAVESTATE, if you like to.

ACT3 will be diffrent. In the BEST Ending Guide, we helped Nauxus. This time we trick both Tribes. Once Snow informs you about the letters, met both Chieftains. Say "NO". Then meet Thane and confess. 

Agree to Thane's Plan. 

Talk to Snow about glue. Thane appears in the tavern and  creates a Pepperbomb. 

Go to Axel and retrive the real Bomb. Thane exchanges the Bombs.  Carry the Pepperbomb to the Swamp and give it to the waiting Bull-Warrior. After the "Bombardment", go to the Lizards Village. Selvy cast an illusion-spell on the Hero to turn him into a Lizard. Meet Nauxus next and accompany him automaticly to meet the Rogue Lizards. The Trail will be sabotaged and Nauxus is pissed.

This is the End of Act3 of the War: Sucspicion Score: Nauxus - 4 ; Axel - 5

Buy at least one heal-Potion and one mana-Potion from Chet to beat Skull-Face Boss for the second time. After we meet Nauxus at the Tavern, make sure to increase your CHArisma by talking to Writer and anwser three (3) Questions correctly. then proceed to the South of the Map and look for Nauxus.

Meet Nauxus in the Swamp BEFORE going to the Bull-Village and  meeting Axel. Otherwise you can not talk to the Spy. 

Once you talked to Nauxus, search for the Bull Village and Thane in the eastern Parts of the Map. BEFORE you fullfill Thanes request, make sure to win against the two Bull Guards at the entrance of the Bull-Village in order to gain two (2) Level-Points.  this will help to increase our INT Stat.

After that meet Thane and Axel. This time however when can talk to the Lizard-Spy because we talked to Nauxus before entering the Bull Village.

With Intelligence six (6) we can talk with Snow about the Time of Chet's Arrival.

After you saved the Spy, you should travel with Thane to the Temple. Buy Torch and Rope if you want. After the Temple, meet Nauxus at the Swamp again.  Sleep at night in the Lizards village. Next Day Nauxus will give you a tour. Later Eyvind will witness the War council.

This was the first Part of Thane's "NO-Casualty-Route".  From now on, i highly recommend to stop any progress in the Story. Instead focus on side mission, quest and powerleveling. When you are forced to talk to Axel and Selvy for the Act2 of the War, just say "NO" for now.

To-do LIST:

- Level your Hero and upgrade your Sword. You are forced to buy a permit and mine some iron ore each day. 

- Fullfill Chet's and Meko's Quest. Hakan Quest will be done much later. 

- Help Witer with his Sleeping Problem on Day 6 and learn Holy Fist. You need to farm a lot of Ghosts in Slime Forrest at night. Remeber to drink Beer to replenish you mana.

- Go fishing with Snow on Day 10, discover Ebb. [optional: savescum to catch a Morate-Fish]

- Beat both Dungeons  and rescue Flo from the Underworld City. You MUST win FLO and the SOUL Emblem during the auction.

Read my Guide above and the offical Guide by Redyoshi if you are unsure to how do these things.

Thane Route is basicly the peace Ending just like in this guide. The diffrence between the "BEST Peace Ending - Thane Route" and the "pure Thane Route", as i define it:  no casualties. I will write the pure Thane Route Guide withing the next two days.  The real Question is how i write it into this Thread.

I am late to the survey but i hope any Survey will still be read. 

I loved the Story and Characters. Zeke is one of the betters MCs, more fun to read than the shy-weak-constanly-sorry-and-raging-human/otter Typ. And Ron is a very sexy Dilf and charming dude.

Most of Thane unlucky slapstick  accidents are pretty funny.  Also Axel got a few Scene with Eyvind:

Axel: "If i could, i would everyone in the village allow to go nude."

Eyvind: "This would be beef-heaven."

Axel:  "What was that?!"

Eyvind: "Nothing!"

You can thank the backward conservative USA-Culture and the patreon's & paypal's & gumroads crackdown on NSFW content. This ruined several creators.

Yes! Can barely wait to see Big "Bear" Cannon in all his glory. 

This game in front of you is finished. It is a Short Story.

The Author has planedd adding Sequels and sidestories in the future.

You also need to pick the appropite movie so Siggy goes to his room and MC spents his time with Sigmund.

Daylight: Riversider

Night: Go to one of the two Slime-Forest and kill Ghosts. You need to kill tons of ghost for ectoplasma (several fetchquest) anyway.

is it necessary to kill the lizard spy for this?

Yes.

It is written at the start of my Guide:

Keep in mind: it's impossible to  have a romance with Thane and Nauxus at the same time without at least one dead person. Killing the Spy is the best option. Period. If you don't care about the Nauxus Romance and his emblem and want to save everyone; you can play the pure Thane Route. 

Is there an option to visit the Purescale evening event completly naked?

Neither Barbarian (cannot reach Barb lvl2) nor Nobel alignment seems to work.

Nauxus CG is on Thanes Route.  Just get the best possible peace ending.

https://itch.io/t/2962718/best-peace-ending-strategy-guide

I guess Owen is addicted to anti-depressiva, maybe the strong stuff that helps against panic-attacks. A bunch of people who take strong psychotropic drugs become chubby.

Parts of the Furry Community proving again how toxic they can be.

I wish health and strength to all the authors and writers who got to deal with this typ of $hit.

It changes dependin on progress. In general "low" mean, you hardly pass any checks. Very low mean: no point investment at all (3). "Med" means you pass most ez checks with item support and the stat matters practically in combat. "High" mean this stat is you main-attack rescource and pass any checks.

First chapter:

low: 3-4;  med: 5-6;  high: 8+

Second chapter:

very low: 3; low: 4-5; med: 6-8;  high: 9-12;  very high: 12+ 

Yoshi Guide is great. And if you crunch the numbers for each decision:

If you want to maximize your Rewards after the War, while keeping the loss of life to the minimum: It is better to meet Thane and go to the Bulltribe FIRST, without getting the Quest from Naxus. Then kill the Spy: The Plan https://itch.io/t/2962718/best-peace-ending-strategy-guide

If you want to make EVERYONE survive, you cannot get Nauxus relatioship on the neutral ending. 

Yes. According to Patreon, he is taking a break to cook up ways  to improve the writing. It seems he has been unsatisfied with the Quality of his own writing.

Asmund is dead. THere is no coming back. Unless we get some timetravel or "dive-into-afterlive" Plot he is gone.

There already is Rasmus Route. Just make sure he wins the election.  Do the players get a sexy scene with him? Time will tell.

Rune can be topped if you fullfill certain requirements.

And thats means you already screwed it. Help Nauxus with the Rogue Liazrds. Dont talk to Thane. If you somehow get asked by Axel to deliver the bomb , just decline.

A few Change in my Guide (01.05.2024):

Auction:

1. Soulelixier: 20-30 boerc.

2. Lave Stone: 40-50 boerc. (Edit: Important later to upgrade Fire Enchantment to Level 2 !!)

3. Murphy Hand: 70-90 boerc. (Edit: Recieved a  Buff.  It is now very usefull against Bosses, because you only recieve +2 Corruption per Fight instead +1  per Attack. Also adds +3 DEF!!)

It has become slightly more difficult to win on the first bit. Savescumming does not always help you. Still it is possible to get all item.  Just bring a lot of beer and rum with you. Alcoholic drink help to increase your Lust toward 90-100 to get the maximum payment at the brothel.

Tree Monster:

HP Potion are more or less useless / too weak. Your Healing Spell "bind up" only works well enough with high END, DEF and INT. With high AGI you can also try to savescum to victory.

(EDIT: Since the Overhaul of the Combat System, this fight has become even more difficult without Goo-Armor.  You definitly need to visit the Bathhouse to double your HP before the fight !!  "Bind up" has become useless. Use your MP for Leaping Slash or Holy Fist instead. Try to deafeat him before your Lifepoints run out.  If this is still not enough, return back later long after the war with improved Stats.)

On next Playthorough i may try out the fire enchantment.

I beat him down to 2200 (with STR 15) and there was no reward...

Maybe it's an important part of the story/plot of his "mother".

I suppose the Dragon is immun against "Flirt"?

https://itch.io/t/2962718/best-peace-ending-strategy-guide

this Version: 

- Meet the Bull Tribe first and kill the Spy

- Create the FEAR- Smokebomb, while fighting for the Lizards.

- Help Nauxus to make peace with the other Liazrds

- Bring the Fruits to the Bull tribe.

END: Nauxus 3 :  Axel 2

It's a great problem for all FVN created by Chinese author/Programmer. Since some chinese Miniter come up with the idea to "better protect the youth and integretiy of China" any Furry or LGBTQ Content in generell is "hunted down".

This is a tierlist mostly made of sympathie and who i am rooting for. Writing and generell Charcter Consistency is secondary. Therefore Ryan, carebear, and Blake, laidbackwolf are high rated because of personal bias. Russel is potentially the best written and most complex charcter among the cast (S-Tier). However The Combination of the most stubborn and somewhat least caring guy puts him into D Tier; 

Joel is also a very good MC with bunch of flaws. Physicalls and emotional week but knowledgable, brave/determent and wise for his age making him a reliable and useful Partymember.  He still suffer from the "Not-enough-talking about-my-feelings" Syndrom like many Protagonist. Similiar to Dave from Password he always pretend to be fine. Anyway Joel remains one of the very best MC in FVN i read so far.

Techniclly Finished

- Extracurricular Activities (Main Routes)

- In case of Emergency

- Deer and Deckards by Kulplant

- Password by Grizz !

- Lyre (first Book)

- Dragon Island by Kulplant (on Steam)

- Only I Have Skills (with grain of salt...)

ShortStories:

- Strokkur

- Steadfast

- Clawstar Wrestling !

- Before you depart

Close to be finished:

- Heatsource

- Shelter

Yes he is. I really would like him to appear in FurryBara Academy....

If you want to really abuse the trading you have to write down the prices on each buying location at least 5times, to keep track of it. To get a feeling about the prices.

For lazy people - here are a few hotspots:

- Supllies are rather Cheap on Jusei, White Dough and Slusland. Can be sold in Goattown and TeaLand.

- Laquaware from Kanraku may cost around 300-800 Coins. If lucky you can sell in Tealand for 700-1400. Jade Dildo are the same. Buy them from Kanraku for 300-500 and sell them at Tealand or somewhere else for 900+

- Goldware from Jusei or Beads from Slusland can be sold to  White Dough quite safely. I think Goldware got the highest win-margine in the game.

- Goattown is tricky. But if Mercuray drop under the 300 mark, its worth a try to sell it to Kanraku.

- When Tea goes under 150/200 coins, sell it to Kanraku for 300-500 coins.

In Generall, save the game before you buy tones of goods. Then sail to you desination. If the prize does not meet you exspectations, just reload.

It likly the reader will never see Kiliigans mom for a long time. Potential Spoilers.

I assume that Killigan is half Bovilian and half Demon. 

1) Basicly his Father is his real biological dad and his mom is either a demon or infertile bolivian and used a demon instead. 

2) Alternetivly Killiggan real father is a demon and his mom only uses Killigan "Father" as a model to create her child.

Before you buy: 

a) Play the Demo. You can get it on Steam itself of Itch.io.

b) Read this Review. ;)

c) For everyone who never played a game made by RenPy or Unity: 

d) Press TAB to skip already seen dialog. Use Mousewheel to rollback or rollforth the dialog. Before you do that: Save the game. Most of the crashes have been taken care of by the patch.

Review

The Demo already sets the tone, that this game is not just some Slice of Life or Dating Novel, but an investigation. The game is basicly Ace Attorny light + easier, a single big case other three and half days. On Top of that you got some erotic Scenes (a few of them sfw) to uncover. It is a Gay Furry/Bara Novel after all!

The gameplay is simple: You walk around the Island (by clicking on the Map) and talk to the other character. On very few occasion you can find some hints just by entering a room or listening on a door. There are a handful quicktime Events and Mini-Quest. If the controls or response are clunky, just rollback or save before the Event to practice. Buttonmash your Mouse also helps.  It's possible to cheese some timed events by rolling back. In the evening you got "Questiontime". Similiar to Ace Attorny, you can "hold it" and occasionally present Evidence from your Notes. Depending on how you do you get diffrent Endings. The firrst playthrough took me two days, roughly 14 hours playtime.

The Art and Music is atmospheric, beautiyful and fits very well. There a dozens of Scene you can unlock. With the multitude of Endings, it got quite some replay value. Do not expect many nsfw cgi Scences. 

I liked the game a lot but i also understand the many disappointed downvotes that may follow, some examples:

- For a game that costs 15€, there are still grammatical and spelling errors. Like: Asien Developer tried to finish the game with google translator before the deadline. For a non-native english Speaker that is not a big deal. Will be solved by future patches anyway.

- "The Plot and the Villain are "cartoonish" "; Correct. And if you had played the Demo, you would have known. One of the Characters even pointed that out that the villains had behaving like a badly written cartoon character.

- "It feels impossible to get a good ending without a guide": Incorrect. I got the good ending on my second playthrough without any guides. (Although some savescumming on several occasions). The game does hold your hand in the evening Questiontime, making it slightly easier than Ace Attorney. But it is not fully linear. If you missed crucial investigation, the game cannot help you to fix it. On very rare occasion you can try another angle though.

- "Only 30 saves....": Thats quite limited for a game made with RenPy. I cannot argue against that. But at least there is a Gallery with unlocked Scene.

Fazit:

I found the Game very enjoyable (8 out of 10) and i got what i expectad and wanted. It is an lighthearted Investigation Game; a bunch of Loveable and sexy characters pited against each other tying to win a silly game of uncovering the "bad guy". 

The Big Downside for most people: The Price of nearly 16$.  If the game would have been six/seven gamedays long instead of just three, with more outdoor activities and character developmont ->  Absolutly worth it. 

My Recommendation:

- Playing the Demo is a basicly a must. 

- Maybe wait for more Patches until April?

Maybe Chester is an asshole. But maybe he is secretly (forced into) working as a prostetue or "personal trainer" to make extra money to keep his shop alive. 

The Effort to flash out 4 Diffrent Route's Romances  is quite insane with limited gain.  I assume Its already difficult and stressing enough to keep up with the plot and art. Writing Romance or the infamous Love-Triangle on top of that is... a hugh timesink. 

The middle option would be to let Eyvind pick 1-2 Characters as Squadmates simliar to Mass Effect or Dragon Age Origin in later Parts of the Game. That allows to write Campfire and Romance/Aventure Scene. But even that compromise is already a momumental task. Not only would Caro have to write 3-4 diffrent sets of scene for the Rest of the Entire Novel, depending on loveinterest, but he also need small changes to Eyvind:

 Commiting/choosing a certain Side changes Eyvind; removes or enforces his "blankslate MC status" -> meaning the Eyvind who helped Axel got slightly diffrent motivation and priority as the Eyvind who choose to add Nauxus most of the time. THe Eyvind who makes peace is more likly to be more thoughtful and  compasionate. This makes Writing for Eyvind way more complicated, cause the dialog and action by Eyvind  must be somewhat logical and consistent with any kind of Eyvind you choose to play.

Therefore I prefer the writers to advance the Plot and Eyvind Story at their pace and leave the non-essential Romance Stuff and romantic SideQuest for a) bonus content or b) when the writer experience a mental blockade (temporary loss of motivation, writing/creative problems, RL-Stuff).

For me this game is regionblocked on Steam. Will this game by avaible on itch, too?

Basic Combatguide:

Who do we win a Fight? Get the enemy HP to 0 before your Hero's HP hits 0. However there is LUST and Charisma. So we can also win by increase the Enemy Lust to 100 before our Hero's Lust hits 100 or his HP hits 0.  

Quite often some Bosse got far more HP when the Hero. We need our Bind up / Healing Spelll to compensate. Our Healing Spell cost mana and got an cooldown.  If the Enemy inflitcst more damage when the Hero can patch himself up: the Hero will lose. Therefore our Hero needs to level up to increase his overall AttackPower and Stats to increase Atk or Survivibility even further.  The Hero got 3 way to attack the enemy: Per STR, MAG or CHA.  So to maximize our Attack, we only need one of the three Stats most of the time. At the Moment STR is the best choice for the beginning and remains strong throughout the game. CHA gets more powerfull but doesnt work against all enemies. Its rather uselss to build a Character who excels in both STR and CHA at the same time. So when creating a Hero, focus on STR or CHA. Rule: Jack-of-all-Trade-Character are weak.

Let's talk about Defense. On Paper, AGIlity seem to be the most powerful stat because it increase Atk by 2 and Crit + Dodge by 2%. But its not realiable. ENDurance however is. END give HP, DEF and increase the power of our healing spell just like MAG!.  For Character you like to attack with CHA/Flirt or even MAGic the +2 Atk power by AGI is somewhat wasted. 

Example Buildes:

Warrior: Max STR + medium END; Use your Basic attack and Bind up when needed. The base build of this guide and very able to defeat the first Boss with Savescumming. The best starting build at the moment. Very effective when playing the Peace and the Bull-Route.  Start: STR 8, AGI 5 or 6, END 4 or 5. Endgame: STR 15; AGI 7; END 8.

Cutthroat: Max AGI + high STR; Risky Playstyle, Save-scum-Build.  Overwhelm the Enemy with Leaping Slash and powerful crits. Start: STR 8, AGI 7.

Cleric: High CHA + High END + medium INT; A very tough Build but very low damage against certain Enemies that cannot be flirted with.  Synergie only with the Peace Ending. Start:  END 5; CHA 7;   

Warlock: High INT + High END;  another very tough build with the most powerful bind up + Holy Fist Spell.  Good Damage against nearly all enemies. Most effective with the Peace or Lizard Route.

Skills: 

Bind up: Basic Healing Spell. Use on cooldown to stay alive in tough fights. Become more powerfull with high INT + END. Dont forget to drink MP Potion in difficult Boss Battle. Becomes useless if the Enemy does way more damage when you can heal.

Defend: Defend when the Boss-Enemy is charging up an powerful attack. Character with high INT but very low STR use this to buy time while Holy Fist is on cooldown.

FLIRT: Your CHA Attack Skill. Become your Basic Attack if you prefer CHA over STR.

Hold Fist (Learned from Meko after Witer Ghost Quest on day 6):  Your Main attack against Ghost. Also the MainAttack for High INT + low STR characters.

Wolf Stance: Decrease your damage taken by around 10-20% while your physical attack power severly drops by nearly 30%-40%. Usefull when you prefer to attack with FLIRT (or Holy Fist) only! 

Leaping Slash (learned at level 3): Strike with around 40-50% more physical power. Exceptional high Damage with Criticals. However the very high MP cost of 30 makes it useless in most fights. 30 MP are better used for Bind up. However: If the enemy is so powerfull that healing yourself ("Bind up and Healing Potions") becomes futile, spam Leaping Slash instead. Kill the Boss before he kills you. Good Example: Fighiting the Swamp Boss without Goo-armor.

Sweep: Physical Strike against multiple enemies. 50MP Cost is very high. Still the better Choice when fighting against more than one enemy at once.

Fantasize: If you want to lose on purpose by Lust. Not recommended in a serious fight.

Thanks for the Warning and honesty. I like Spooky Thriller (Moonlight Castle, Tavern of the Spear's Dungeons) but dislike Horror Stuff with amputation or gore (ECHO).