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Hi. I tried your AVN.

Very pretty art but I didnt enjoy it as much as I hoped. You see I wanted to win the first part of the tournament and it seems to be nearly impossible to do. I specialized in knowledge and spellpower and still couldnt win, ending up in last place.

I dont know if its meant to be that way or i just suck at this game. Either way, very frustrating.

Its meant to be a test of knowledge, so why is knowledge such a weak component in it? shouldnt a high knowledge be extremely valuable during a test of knowledge?

Just to be clear I had over 50 knowledge and nearly as much spellpower. i had a little bit of imagination too. i pretty much ignored charisma and prowess.

The atrophy rate is way too fast too. people dont turn into slugs after a few weeks...

Next regarding the LIs.

I like the nerd girl, i think her name was Violet, but that was really all. I encountered the class president girl, i forget her name, but she seemed like someone I wouldnt have much in common with.

Shes well liked and popular, im a quiet nerdy guy. So i ended up avoiding her as much as I could.

Didnt meet the other girls. Dont even know who they are.

There ya go, thats my take on your game.

efrfrf3453 days ago(+1)(-1)

"nerd girl" Is that what you call Violet, you barbarian?

When it comes to meeting the cast, you have to do the extracurricular things - studying, mingling, training, etc. You aren't guaranteed to meet a girl and get her respective event through it every time, but if you do it enough, like for studying, you'll meet Elisabeth and Violet, and go through their respective event lines. While when it comes to the trial, what were you doing? Trying to brute force? For stats like spellpower iirc, you could use animal form to skip a part, while if you want to at least meet two of the girls and pass, just max out knowledge, if you read the options, and can deduce which one accompany's the knowledge stat, you'll be able to breeze through it as first place and the exams.

damalon52 days ago (3 edits) (+2)

I didnt see any option to use animal form. I played it some time ago.

I remember there being a animal form spell in my latest playthrough but nothing for its use during the test. So there was no choice but to stumble about trying to 'brute force' my way through.

Of course I used the option I thought most likely to use Knowledge or Spellpower. I still failed 2 or 3 times before id be allowed to pass, even with 50 knowledge.

Like I said, Im a nerdy guy, I dont socialize in the common room or anything like that. So I met Violet and I liked her. Met the class president girl, because its part of the story, and thats it.

During my latest playthrough I started working on my Prowess after the test of knowledge but I didnt seem to meet any other girls, not that I wouldve paid much interest if I did. I was pretty invested in Violet by then.

efrfrf3452 days ago

Animal form can be one of the items you get by buying the 'books from america' from the store. I got it up to some high level after practising with spellpower and intelligence in my free time, which, for some of the options, gave the option to use it

Shady Characters53 days ago(+1)(-1)

Hi, thank you for the review. The game is definitely not meant to be just breezed through, and exploration and experimentation is important.

As for the Trials, they are intended as difficult challenges, requiring either good understanding of the trial OR very high stats. First place is very attainable with stats around 30s if you know exactly what to do. But winning is not necessary anyway and failing certain tests might bring rewards of its own.

damalon52 days ago (1 edit) (+2)

As I said I'm pretty sure I had around 50 in Knowledge. Still came in last.

I guess I just suck?

As far as I can see there's nothing to understand about the trail... you click on an option, you fail, you either try again and again until you pass or you go another way and you fail there too.

Meanwhile the two other champions breeze their way through it, but then they have been training for it for the whole year i assume.

efrfrf3452 days ago(+1)

I usually got my Knowledge stat to around 80 at its lowest when the trial came, it made every accompyning door which needed that stat simple

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