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Complete the game in 38 loops (total time was 1h15m). It's a nice puzzle, I definitely faced some troubles trying to find more efficient routes. Some routes are matters of execution and I simply didn't know the technique for it.

Area that you could improve the game in my opinion will be a table/graph of your previous loops like:

This will make it much easier for players to compare runs, understand where optimization is needed and determine if they were correct.

Thanks for correction!

"Collect Life Essence" only give 1 essence upon completion instead of 40 as display

I didn't know holding "Ctrl" will reveal nodes' details (including completed ones). I wish I knew about this before taking screenshots for shadow comprehension source guide. :0

Ver 0.3.1 Shadow Comprehesion source guide

This is intend to help newer players navigate the map for shadow comprehension sources. Let me know if I'm missing any.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSOOOubU8f1R3U4O5md2PZapcoYpxXUVj4dFxbTIwOXxRFVGR-I31BujPZVz3NkNw/pub

After completing "Pick Up Litter" node, I got the favour text for "Kick Plotted Plant"?

Anyhow, finished Empiric, Ashened Tongued and got lucky with Screaming Mandrake to finish 1 of the 2 rng one

As of version 0.2.0, I got 4 out of 8 Epithets:

- Forever Forsaken

- Shadow Touched

- Foxified

- Bearer of Perfect Reason

As for others, I find them unachievable or too luck based.

- Empiric is simply impossible to achieve currently, the inspiration points from "appreciate artwork" is 4, "Draw on the Statue's Face" is 1. Meanwhile, to get arcanophobia, "Analyze Classical Theories" requires 1, "Reframe Classical Theories" requires 3 and finally "Reject Contemporary Mana Studies" requires 2. 

- Acquire of Tastes needs Screaming Mandrake and I'm not too keen grinding on that luck 

- Liquidator of the Final Ledger requires 1 million which I can only assume it requires selling the Screaming Mandrake.

- Apotheosized, I have hypothesized that it was locked behind "Mediate Even Deeper", so I decided to try maxing it out. After carefully managing the hunger and the fatigue, I managed to max that 99/99, which unlock "Seek Enlightenment" with 0/999. Unsurprisingly, I wasn't even close to finish that 999, my hunger and fatigue was at near bottom after 99 "Mediate Even Deeper"

Anyhow, I would recommend you showing a grey node or translucent node where the players had been to. For example, if I reached "Enter the Main Hall" and I decided to reincarnate, the game should show the path leading to "Enter the Main Hall". This will help newer players track where they have been.

Currently, Shadow Comprehension becomes relatively useless at 280+, would recommend adding something like "Add Calmness by 0.1*Shadow Comprehension" or something like that.

After finishing the 99 'mediate even deeper', you'll see "Seek enlightenment" with 0/999. I forgot how much time it cost but it's definitely impossible to complete in the current 0.2.0 version