Posted June 04, 2020 by Melancholy Marionette
Okay, so, I've had a few people send me messages regarding unlocking the ??? route, so I figured I'd make a post about it to help anyone who's stuck :3 Don't worry, I won't put any major spoilers here!
Now, I kinda suck at explaining things, so I'm sorry about that >.<
The TLDR version is basically, make sure to keep your progress on the same save instead of reloading old saves to unlock stuff you may have missed. It's fine to have lots of saves, just remember to keep all your main progress on one.
This is the more in depth explanation:
The biggest non-spoiler hint I can give is, don't keep reloading older saves when you reach bad ends, just let them play out. Progress is tied to your save, but CGs that are unlocked stay unlocked forever (even when starting a new game) unless you delete every save file in the game folder. So if you complete a route but want to go back and find a CG you missed, if you reload and successfully unlock that missing CG, you will keep that CG in the gallery, but upon reloading you will have reverted back to whatever progress you had made at the time of that particular save. So if you're missing CGs or endings in a route after running through it to the end, you're better off starting that route again and using the skip text function to get to wherever you want to go :3
A second hint is that not all bad ends have CGs to unlock.
If you want me to create a full walkthrough, please let me know in the comments :3