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Hinterlands 3 best route?

A topic by Craft created Jun 06, 2022 Views: 1,079 Replies: 4

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Craft2 years ago (2 edits)

Hey everyone. First of all, if you missed the tag, spoilers, including game mechanics I understood! Don't read further if you don't want to be spoiled defiled or something similar. :)

So, I got to Hinterlands 3 the first time. As far as I can tell, there are 2 quests spanning 3 days each (6 days for both quests can be brought down to 5 days, if visiting the Flooded Town after visiting both the Colonel's House and Salt Plains). And there is a bunch of places you can visit to grow P's affection to Storm. I tried doing both quests and just getting Storm better clothes, but was not satisfied where it leaves both characters. I tried going full-out on building relationships with Storm, but I can't rid of that itch, that I MUST remove the Hinterland curse. And I tried doing only the Skinned Tapir quest, and going full-out for relationships with Storm after. As far as I can tell, getting 4 full-day activities with Storm is enough to get him to fall in love with P, and 3 more days is needed to complete one of two quests. While I think, that all this "bury remains" quest by Nini is bullshit: I presume she's trying to mislead P to not to lift the curse to "live forever". I prefer the Tapir quest, because it lifts the curse, however I feel P is mistreated by the Tapir God, and never finds closure over his grandfather sins. So my question: is there is a way to complete both quests, while maxing-out relationship between P and Storm? Or any other good and/or useful stuff I missed there? I visited the church and heard the nun talking about missing child, however I couldn't find anything about him yet.

While I understand, that Minotaur Hotel is about management as much as about story and relationships, I find time constraints really strict. I hope it will change with the final release, or at least there will be an option to remove time limits, maybe after the first playthrough. Maybe even for some "true" ending. When it goes to visual novels, I'd like to explore every possible option and get the best possible outcome without needing to replay the game dozens of times. But that's just a shoutout to Minoh Team. :)

TrinexxSlayer2 years ago(+2)

the hinterlands was designed so you couldn't do everything, you could look it up what has already been discussed on the forum or clarified on the dev logs, one of the 3 quests is very much a red herring. the best out come is spending the first 3 days to build the bond with P and Storm, and the next 3 days on the other quest. then, in the last day, you can find a secret location that's unlocked by that quest. the hinterlands 3 could very well be a stand alone project, and is very much worth checking out all the different places and trying to uncover it's mysteries.

Craft2 years ago

Thanks for the help. I'm kinda new to itch.io, so it took me some time, to figure out, where the forum search and other stuff there. :)

NanoffDeveloper2 years ago(+4)(-1)

Hey Craft, glad to hear you're enjoying the game.

While we will add more management days to future builds (there's a ton of content now and very little time to do everything because we're future proofing it for when players have more time) there still won't be enough time to do everything, and the Hinterlands 7 day limit is fixed.

We discussed this a bunch of times on the forum but our overall design philosophy with Minotaur Hotel is that if there was an optimal way to do everything and recruit every staff member and complete all the character routes and do all the hinterlands quests, etc. then there would be no reason to do anything but stick to the optimal route. It gets players in a mentality where they check items off a list and don't really get immersed into the story. While I understand the frustration of not being able to do everything on one go, I think it makes your choices as a player more meaningful. Hope it's not a dealbreaker.

Craft2 years ago(+1)

I don't mind replaying the game at all. Moreover, this game I would love to play until I remember every word by heart. You created not just a great game, but the world I want to live in, so... :)

I'm just trying to find that fine line for the first play through, where I'm happy with all my choices and their consequences, and didn't miss too much of the content. :)