The last stage is 1-20, you should have seen a message at the end of story singaling that All characters who have 2nd stages get them only during combat. They don't have a dedicated scene to it. Though Maria does grow during her Bond dialogue. Narrator-chan is Patreon exclusive. You need to be of the Growth Connoisseur tier on my patreon then authenticate inside the game. She will appear as an item inside your inventory if you do that.
Bug has been found! It happens when the fear effect is applied, thus why it occurs when you encounter a banshee. I will fix some more things and release an update soon!
Autosave is mostly on because if it wasn't you won't get any progress saved unless you do it manually, which is why I don't give an option for that. 5. You may have overridden the save where the settings were updated 7. Okay, I will look into it
Again thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed! Look forward to an update soon!
Glad you liked the game and thanks for the comprehensive review! I will now proceed to answer your points: 1. I will look into it, hasn't been reported before, but I think I may know how it happens 2. The main save is replaced by the one you played most recently. Autosaves are created when a update action has happened - like getting a new character, leveling someone up, using an item etc. Also when you go back to main menu, an autosave is made immediately 3. This is a known bug, but it is sadly due to an external addon I use for tooltips, thus not much I can do about it currently, it just works like that. I will someday write my own tooltips so that doesn't happen, but can't say when exactly 4. I will look into this, in general the tutorial hasn't been tested very much so that is to be expected I guess 5. It should presist, just tested it. This might be something related to switching saves, as the settings are kept within saves 6. There are certain skills that can't be used with keys 7. This has been fixed in the developer version so will come with next update
1. Some such inconsistencies have been fixed in the dev version 2. The GUI in general is not at all polished, things like easier understanding of the UI will come as the game matures (I am a single dev after all and not a professional in UI design in the slightest) 3. I was thinking of doing something about that, I may just make it so you are just taken to the crafting menu instead. There will be changes to how the UI in the character screen feels and looks sooner or later as its quite bad right now, thus that will be fixed along with this 4. You just need to drag the slider to the end to do that. It scales based on the maximum amount of levels you can put in. 5. There is in the dev version 6. This will be addressed in the character menu overhaul 7. What do you mean? All enemies should spawn out instantly after the initial darkened screen 8. I wish you could too... Jokes aside, it is not skippable because I kind of rushed its implementation. It is in the dev version 9. You can switch between them in a couple of ways: drag with the mouse (finger if you are on mobile), scroll wheel or keyboard arrows
Yeah the game is pretty easy to beat currently, but stages will get harder as the story progresses and enemy levels rise. Hope I clarified some of your points and again, I am thankful for the review!
Most of your questions are answered in the info button inside the character screen. Second growth is triggered only for 2 characters currently: Maria and Narrator-chan. It happens when they have 200 resonance and are already grown once. Then you will have to look through their passives and the condition will be written there. Bond endings are indeed affected by choices. There are 6 states of affection and each 2 trigger a different ending. You can also go back and replay a certain episode in order to change your choice. A little tip, choices are like this ALWAYS: top is bad, middle is neutral and botton is good. This is to make it easier to reach all endings. Also choices have some differenced for following dialogue too. Hope this answers your questions!
Well they are not that hard if you use Maria. I've nerfed them a few times already, but they will be nerfed again soon too, as a lot of people are having difficulties with them.
I don't know how you can't kill the nuns. Usually if you target them specifically they die quite easily if you have strong enough characters. Like level 40s work. The easiest option is Maria, because she can basically 2 hit them if she has her passive active.
First you need to find it in %appdata%/Growing Explorations/. Then you can just open the file and paste it here or you can alternatively upload it somewhere and send me a link to it. Both work.
The game is completely free, but if you want a boost on progression you can subscribe to my Patreon. You can find the link in the game bio here, as itch.io doesn't let me paste links in comments.
A character has to reach level 40 and have 100 resonance which is gained from combat. Then you have to make a Refined Heart with a specific compound. These items are farmable in the R stages. Every character needs a different one and it will be shown which one that is when you try to ascend them before having the item.
