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no lol

Why not?

Anyways this seems lost to development hell. Rip.

Saiko's pretty cute when she's sleeping.

:3

... Putting aside my other reply, I'd say lewdness isn't required, it's love. Saiko definitely lacks in love and care due to being unquestionably insane. 

In the game, when she's not stabbing you, she shows admiration, just simply being happy staring at Akira, grinning like an idiot,  and when she is hurting the player character, she's being sadistic. She loves 'playing'; torturing the character. 

Is she a regular murderer? Nah, not really.

Is she a regular Yandere? Nah, not really. 

But I guess, what even is a regular Yandere if they're meant to be irregular of mind?

Conclusion, she's just cray-cray and you gotta deal with it. 

Rather than lewd, I doubt she even loves Akira, the player character.

I suppose Yanderes can be crazy, violent, hypocritical, and sadistic... I guess I wonder why Saiko is so crazy already. 

Basically I missed all the lead-up and now I agree that Yandere doesn't fit as well as "Crazy sadistic murderer" does. 

Also, she insta-kills after the safe is opened, so she really doesn't want him to leave the school... But why? Couldn't she just follow him? And is the school ever going to start again? Wouldn't it be better to take him somewhere more private? Maybe she isn't thinking that far.

The guy Akira spoke to.. So far, from the demo I played, the only thing that Saiko didn't like was Akira talking to that guy. 

Maybe the explanation is just that she's batshit crazy already, where she has split personality, one is more regular, and the other has glowing eyes and wants to kill the character. The more regular one will repress the mad one, or I guess I can just call that Yangire mode, or mentally ill and angry mode, and the regular mode just Yandere, mentally ill and lovestruck mode. 

That just returns me to asking why she's already screwed up, though. 

Mmm... It feels like she already gave up on life. Not considering consequences, maybe that's solely focusing on Akira and being crazy. But giving up on keeping Akira alive...

Maybe Akira rejected her catastrophically? But she doesn't really mention that.. 

So... with the meagre amount of info I have playing the demo... 

So Saiko would be already psycho and crazy as hell but barely maintains a normal-ish school life and falls in love at first sight multiplied by a trillion, and then immediately kidnaps him and the last person she saw talking with him, and then the events of the demo 2.01 version plays out. 

Or maybe Akira was gay, and Saiko saw a confession between Akira and dead guy #1, and Saiko confronted Akira and maybe also confessed, then Akira rejected her terribly, and then she split her mind to bottle up the insanity, but by the time Akira gets the safe with the exit key open, Saiko's tiny smidge of sanity fades away or is beaten out by anger, and so she just stabs Akira to death, or she simply decided to have Akira dead if she can't have him alive. 

Or maybe Akira was bullying Saiko, and so she was returning the favor, or 'love' in sadism in the short events of the game. 

...Maybe she's just crazy and had a tiny remnant of sanity left that results in the passive mode at the start of the game. No explanation.

The messages written on the locker and the table are decent reflections of that fading smidge of sanity "I didn't want to do this.." written with the instructions on how to leave. 

But why? Why? Why? 

... It doesn't really need a reason, I guess. It doesn't need one. But I want one. So I imagined some.

Translation:

"This game is very good, I think if it were available in Chinese, more people could enjoy it."

I don't believe we can currently.

Discord

I'm having a bit of trouble finding the savefiles on mac, and also, seems to have no progress, stuck at "Ask if Ako need something" for the progress tip.

Update: There's a difference, that Application Support is the mac version of AppData, but I still didn't find the saves. Not a big issue.

The soft lock was right before the refurbished bodyframe. It's after the seamless bodyframe. I moved on from it using the tempfix code.

The most unrealistic thing about this game is that finding a job and interacting with the manager/boss is simple and straightforward.

:p

It's calculated in Venus days. 

:p

Nika's a good kid. She's not scary.

The flesh building... It's rather mean. Or, greedy? Clingy? If it were really mean, or evil, or wanted to kill, both Lera and Nika would be dead soon.

But the building of flesh doesn't exist, does it? Even in the game, the reality is vague. Was it all just in the kid's head? Pondering these questions, in a place where snow is a constant... 

Russia?

... I saw some things reminiscent of WW2, posters that would fit right in at around that time...

Is it NK? A country which traps its inhabitants.. A building of flesh...

Is the main point the abstract... Or rather, the philosophical questions?

I think... Neither answer is wrong. After all, I didn't see a "Bad End"... Only a good end, and a true end.

It's possible that the good end is the bad end which is argued to be good by Nika. 

Nika's stance on the building seems conflicted. It's nice. It's safe. It's impossible to leave, though. It's good. Something Nika would invite a friend to partake in. But she's lonely. She's lonely, so she wants to leave. She's lonely, so she wants others to stay. Perhaps it isn't conflicting after all.

The flesh building could simply be death. After all, it's the simplest way to live forever. It's hell. Live in hell. Ants eat their kin, and produce more ants... Corpses are flowerbeds... This all starts with death.

"Allusions to suicide." 

This would all make sense as simply an allegory for death.

Nika's analogy with the ants which are one being and live on by eating one another and being born again, reconstructed, was one that she sort of waved off for being considered literally as immortality through cannibalism. 

If flowers and mold are included, we have plants, animals, and fungi, plus the building. Nonliving. It's a world, no? The living building is a world of its own. 

One gives birth, one eats, one drinks, one sleeps, one lives, and one dies. 

One is born, one is eaten, one is drunk, one is slept on, one watches, and one doesn't.

Death cannot be escaped, much like being part of the living building. It is assumed to be an eternity of nothing. Perhaps there are others who walk the same road. But seemingly, also, no way to be sure of anything.

Nika would be the guide. The reaper? No, perhaps not. A river ferry? A guide. All who have come before go on. That can't be, if the ant analogy worked. surely, someone would have joined her in all those years. But perhaps the joining is only with the living building. They won't see Nika again, not exactly the same way.

What is different with Lera?  Maybe nothing. Doesn't hate, isn't as scared, thrash...

Is Lera familiar with Nika? Maybe they are. Maybe they're even childhood friends. 

But familiar with death, or one in it... "Allusions to suicide"... I'm not perceptive enough. However, one considering death, coming close to death, longing for death, to go quiet...

For long enough, and deep enough, would they not be death's friend?

But after all, death's guide ought accept a lost soul's departure. They guide, they don't reap. If their rightful place is yet the side of the river only once called home...

Nika helped Lera back.

Dead people do reach out from heaven and hell.

They're still there, woven as fabric of memories, huh?

Is Lera old?

Is Lera young?

Is Lera old, dreaming of when he was young?

Is Lera young, dreaming of when he is old?

For a hazy observer like myself, both are plausible.

450762... What is this number used for? Maybe in the beginning, perhaps?

Death is desirable because Life is known.

Life is desirable because Death is known.

To be given something, then to want nothing, and find it, yet realize something was better... What a common occurrence.

To return to the womb is to die.

What is death? What is bliss?

Ignorance is bliss.

It's safe. It envelops all around. It's warm. It helps. It takes care.

Ones inside live at no effort. Little knowledge, and much pondering.

It's quiet. It's empty. It's suffocating.  It's uncontrollable. It's lonely.

With no way out, there is no exit. With no control, one cannot be made.

If there is a way out, there is an exit, which may be taken, which is in one's control...

Is that life?

Perhaps, as always, nothing is correct.

It's rather... Disappointing. Kira agrees with me, too. "That's all?" "Don't go..."

There's no satisfying end. Seemingly no progress. The good end has about the same impact as the bad ends. 

Kira and I hope for a True End.

Is there one?

Lmao

Reminds me of Celeste. Everyone's dead.

A mystery.

... Or me missing a few lines.

Spent an extra few minutes trying to do something with the dragon statue. Nothing. 

Pretty good for a quick scratch-up.

Oh, this isn’t scary!

The first step to learning is recognizing that there is something to learn. 

You’ve done it!

Keep reading and writing, I’m sure you’ll be able to express more and more of your feelings with practice.

:)

There is a gate, though it's slightly easier with a bolt cutter.

stay in every bush for at least three seconds. 

the heartbeat sounds increase the closer the monster is to killing you.

the sounds decrease over time in a bush.

Spoilers below, random thoughts I have while playing:

turned from sad story to lmao wtf is going on right after sarah went to make dinner

also sarah seems like mountain fox

this shit's hilarious.

CJ's a dumbass lol

shit, the opposite of information really is misinformation, damn could've just waited, like, ten seconds for CJ to get there!

Ah, it's a whole pile of crap that I see but they don't. Really there's nothing much to fight about. No big issue, nothing. Though maybe I'm just weird.

Ah, yeah, see?

I'd be satisfied if the game just ended right after talking to Vic.

How does this get to the end dream I have no clue,

... I dunno.

lucky strike!

I thought the cotton only affected wands? 

If it's not specific to wands, then try just putting the cotton on a square next to the mana.

My hoarding habits... aarwgjarjgioafr

Everything is useful, I want it all, but I can't!!!! ajfafalkeflr

*I love the game, it makes me hurt inside

also regen wand plus frog totem is overpowered

also i don't know if luck is still increasing but I have 5 lucky rings..

I died... I need cleansing... something.. agaogaogafgj;a

this game is so good.

so... I hope the save function works because this takes hours to play.

Tilted Sword is the strongest weapon imo, since bosses seem to follow a pattern of getting more hp and summoning minions so far, allowing it to stack up damage until the boss can be killed in one turn. 

Save function doesn't work for web game...

You mean this backpack hero? 

https://thejaspel.itch.io/backpack-hero

They seem different enough to me, even with the same main fighting idea. 

Edit: I played backpack hero for hours, it's so fun. Roguelike turn-based dungeon crawling. Not  auto PvP.

Turn on audio and listen for heartbeats. The intensity of the heartbeats tell how near the monster is to finding Lacie. The heartbeats slowly calm down and go away when hiding in a bush, so wait a while in each bush. For dead ends, just return to the last bush, then go another route. 

Also, there is always* another way. 

*Not really true but sort of true. The devs can't literally make infinite routes. 

Ya gotta point them in the direction where there ought to be a path. 

For the "secret" signs, just point them so that their directions intersect; they point at the same point.

spoil, go play and get the true ending. and the true ending of Project Kat.

First of all, there's no way Lacie is done with the rituals, because she still has the curse, Sai is still in the underworld, and Miss Knives called her "Lilith". 

Next, Sai is still in the underworld. Why?? Does Sai just live in the underworld? Wandering everywhere in there to rid himself of his boredom? Or is he a demon? Maybe not a demon... Or not all demons are strong. 

Shadow Kat is adorable, I wonder if that guy after credits is her family. Her dad? But also, I wonder if she can make those potions, if she used a healing potion on the injured rabbit, and who even shops there. I would suggest that the man is Red, but he's got a noticeable lack of the color red, and doesn't seem to match the descriptions The Prisoner gives. Not wanting to give out store products for free isn't out of the ordinary. 

Rune, however, is indeed quite red-colored. He goes to Red's house without activating the spike traps, and "Walks" to the Facility, secret passage, much? but still, he knows Red's name, and doesn't remember his own past name, so either he's got multiple personalities, is just lying, or isn't Red. I dunno... Rune probably isn't Red. 

Glen is some big-shot powerful demon, Lilith is possessing Lacie or something for whatever reason... I have a theory that Lacie was cursed by Lilith to become Lilith or become more and more like Lilith, or to gain something other of Lilith... For example the inexplicable escape out of Miss Knives' cage is probably Lilith's magic.  Wendy is Aoi's boss, who seems to be decently powerful, below Glen, and above the average demon, like Alba. Wendy reminds me of "Wendigo". 

The Fairy Rings... Maybe destroying all the rings would disrupt it and cause a huge outburst, or they would open new rings in other places to replace the destroyed rings, so it's better to simply shrink the rings and cull the unnecessary ones,  and then warn about it in places with fairy rings which will remain in their place, or maybe the fairies have some beneficial use...

The facility that Lacie went to seemed to be an abandoned one, then is the one she gets sent to if she stays on the bus a more recently built one, one back in time, or just one that kept it's operations? 

I love how I could use the brainless strategy of taking a bucket and carrying all the water away into the sink... And it actually works! Forbidden artifact..

Miss Knives doesn't seem like she's in any state to defend herself... The one with the demonic rabbit plushie said they left after killing a bunch of normal primal demons... I imagined they would go retrieve the interesting test subjects. The Spider... I don't know how they even fit inside their cell, but ok, whatever, they're fine. Potential: High. hm. Are the test subjects fed souls to make them more powerful? Miss Knives' power seems very powerful and versatile, if only someone could heal her mind, her illusionary domain may be much more stable. Rather than illusion, reality warping may be more apt...

Lacie and Hiro should be safe at home... Right? Does the exit garden just put someone back into the place they started the ritual? Like, for Lacie, say outside her front door, since that's where she painted the red symbol, and Kat back in the middle classroom?

Chapter 2 follows Sai as he leaves Lacie's exit garden for whatever reason... 

Interpretation: "Bruh, it's a horror game, that's the whole point."

Could you specify what didn't work? 

But Rune said possession was an outdated concept or something like that... Though Rune is always leaving out important details or telling half-truths.

If you are on mac, then go to finder, then use the toolbar at top of screen, click on "Go", then click "Go to folder", then put in "/Users/username/Library/Application Support/", with your username in place of "username". 

then find paper lily folder, and inside is a save folder.

For windows and others, not sure, but should be similar. 

Yeah, the motion sensor's useful, good for daily, normal use, but not very helpful when defending against outside threats. 

The monster was scary without using a jumpscare, which was nice. 

I noticed that reinforcements are based on the largest number of connected spaces of the team.

I surrounded each team to one space. Green and Brown could break one space if they worked together, but brown never attacks that space in-between them. 

This is my guide to my favorite ending.

That's the true ending, I recommend talking to the girls more, poking around with the radio in the top left corner of the occult club, retrieving the book without reading it, and returning the theater club room key, and then sitting down at the table. then continue the ritual, cutting hair, drawing chalk lines, but NOT putting down the candles. Don't do anything at all with the candles. Don't touch them. Then explore, I'm sure there's something useful in all those desks...

This is my favorite ending. The only way to mess it up is putting down the candles, and it's truly switched to one of if not my least favorite endings if the candles are lit after going on this path. It'll be relatively quick, in any case. 

Don't read if you haven't played the game. Go play it till you get at least the true ending or a handful (more than 2) of dead ends. 

Original:

Ugh... damned disembodied voice.

All I got to do now is figure out now is how to get the other girls to help break into the weird room. I don't think I have much else to do in the ritual unless carrying all three runes changes something. 

Ending Statement:

Yeah, no, I'm not going through all that again just to see if the magic man eating demon will say anything about my having three runes or being slightly interesting from the dream... nor am I going to complete the ritual that clearly works and clearly states to only have one person present... with Saki, Juli, and Kaya. Curiosity killed the cat, Morbid Curiosity would kill more than just the cat. 

The best ending is probably the girl's night out. This isn't paper lily, there is a clear "host", and this "host" is clearly in complete control and only has two goals: To have fun, and to eat. Which, ah, leaves me to wonder just why that ritual exists. It's near certain death, (with the only exception being if some other being as powerful or more powerful than the host decides to save Kat for some reason, or the monster miraculously changes their mind and lets Kat go.) and barely has any benefit. 

The intergalactic government in this game is so overbearing, if a planet isn't following their laws, then basically everyone on that planet can be arrested and imprisoned forever.

Pretty crazy, no wonder there's a huge opposition group. 

Since the save file is in plain text, you can save a file to your computer and edit the money value, anything at and above 1 billion just results in $0, though. 

shoot middle, far right, right, then far left and left together.

Oh, come to think of it, I didn't get her name. 

So, hm, Dad was cray-cray and and broke the fourth wall, then broke the fourth wall for his daughter by doing some crappy shit and now... This happened? That's my guess.