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>>3910360
The thread is back! Yay! No game link though? At least attach a promo left by TL.

>>3910424
good idea, here's the goods, remember to remove the ()s:
https://mega(.)nz/folder/09FRHYSR#VKxBWy9oTNffPNJlnvsEBA

>>3910723
Thanks, man!

So other than Janice with double swords, Kelly with double guns, and Shiki for starting with time magic it doesn't matter who you give what skills/weapons to, right? Like everyone is pretty much mechanically identical barring 1 or 2 stat points?

>>3910967
Invest into magic for Lavie and Natalie and perhaps Dora if you're freaky like that.

>>3910967
In regular routes, mostly.

Just don't build bows on main characters of that route - Reverie Arc, the most powerful bow build, blocks tactics switching. And don't touch spears until you hit the stat cap on regular route - the stat spread they give is horrible.

Also, Lavie gets Love magic, Jacou gets Sword/Gun and Prim has Seal move. On Secret route, Dora gets Despair Magic, Janice gets All Trigger Gem and Yoko gets Hat Activation.

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>>3910967
Most are pretty similar yeah. Your main keepers all get something to distinguish them later on tho, as do a couple of the other ones.

>>3910983
spears have good arts tho and you can always fix stats later
also anyone can get gun kata

>>3911005
>you can always fix stats later
You can't. The stat increase chance becomes lower the more increases you get. The chance gets absurdly low at some point.

>spoiler
Yes, but they will never be as good as Jacou/Kelly

>>3911008
does jacou have a niche? seemed mogged by dahlia

>>3911013
>does jacou have a niche?
Efficient Hybrid damage scaling, if I remember correctly. If you train her in sword/gun and water/fire, several of her skills get additional damage boost from that magic proficiency. She needs grinding though to get useful, and the point you get her is very, VERY lategame.

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>>3910967
freddy should stay on magic as she gets good magic related shit later on

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>>3911035
I mean she has good magic shit when she starts t b h

>>3910983
oh no, i started the game making nat's friend a spear user...

>>3911526
I gave everyone their standard weapons and magic and did not attempt to minmax the game and beat it fine

>>3911547
You can also just not save that character in a Jewelry Box after beating a route and retrain them into another build.

>>3911526
>>3911569
DESU eventually Lavie doesn't really need to "attack" or anything weak like that anyways so it'll be fine

>>3911724
And then, Maria Reich Happens.Kiss your love gem Zig Byel!

CARNAGE

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>>3911786
fredchads... we fucking won

I love the machines, they're such a cool fight

>>3910967
I think I read on the jap wiki each character has slightly faster growth on certain magic and weapon but I could had misinterpreted it. It probably won't matter in any reasonable circumstance.

Am I supposed to just farm Fatimas forever to upgrade my weapons? Or am I missing something?

>>3913068
You don't really need to upgrade your weapons that much? Regular play without grinding gives you a bunch of fatimas across different routes, so there's not really a need to ever grind them. Between that and the jewelry box meaning you accumulate your regular weapon exp from playing, you'll be fine.
If you really want more, I'd only do it like immediately before you're about to face the end-route boss on your sixth route so you have a couple extra if you want them for the final route

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How do I do this stupid jump challenge? I am using the charge action to get there and attempting to mid air jump but I just seem to fall down instead of jumping. When I don't dash i can jump but of course not high enough.

>>3913176
I finally made it by jumping before getting off the ledge as just running off it disabled my mid-air jump.

>>3913176
you need pretty good timing for it desu.
You need to charge, jump (walking off will fail), then dash at a specific height so you're going just under the last stalactite - you cannot hit the walls and be pushed under, you need to fall to the correct height from the start.
Then you need to time your double jump right after that stalactite and (unfortunately where a lot of attempts fail) you then have to actually land on that platform and not over/undershoot it.
Good luck!
There's an OOPart called the Damascus Ring that makes it so your charge doesn't decay, which can make this a little easier, but the way you get that is from doing all the other side-quests in a character's route, so you might not have access to it yet.

>>3913176
Not something I've ever remembered to try, but I wonder if it's easier on 30fps. Apocalypse is way harder to time on 60fps than 30, maybe charge lasts a tad longer on 30 too.

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I really wish this game was more popular, hopefully some big streamer will pick it up someday

>>3915313
Mel's world is a filter for most of them

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AAAAAAAAAA WHAT IS THIS HOW DO I EVEN BEAT IT

>>3915708
Not now that's for sure.

>>3915318
Time to make a censored edition of the game that replaces all of Backbeard's dialogue with Joss Whedon writing and Marvel quipping.

>>3915708
There's a couple of good strategies for it. You could probably do it now desu.
>The important thing is to not get killed by the Bitstorm.
>The Bitstorm tends to kill you when it activates.
>The Bitstorm has specific conditions for when it activates
These are your important pieces of knowledge to ruminate on. And then of course you have to like... perform well enough once you've thought up a strategy.
Consider your options! I really like this fight

>>3910967
give everyone gun's and time magic

>>3915708
>5k power
uhh based
come back later (its power is 41188 so you want 10297 average) or find a funny way to cheese it i believe in you

>>3912347
They each have at least one preferred weapon and magic type, but iirc all that means is it's what they'll have at higher levels when you recruit them and what they'll passively level when not in use (plus whatever they're equipped with). As an example Meshleia is biased toward spear+light, but if she's always in your party there's functionally no difference in giving her something like bow+wind.

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prim my beloved

>>3919648
She's a raging lesbian anon

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>>3919796
Okay but like…
It’s Hat World
That’s 95% of the cast

Does the Demon's Egg actually make the game harder or is it a balance toggle in case you didn't grind your characters enough?

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>>3921342
It's more like a balance toggle for overgrinding. It makes enemies scale with your Power. It also undoes some boss nerfs on the current JP version, but the English patch's version predates those.
There is an actual Easy mode unlocked on the Egg if you game over enough times.

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MY FUCKING BROS!

>>3921356
>It makes enemies scale with your Power
Is this purely scale up or can you do funny lopsided builds to exploit it

>>3921922
Purely scale up.

>>3921798
It’s a kino moment. Tbh her route itself is a little bland, but she arguably has the best boss fight in the game (there are a lot of contenders out there admittedly).

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Seriously what's the deal with this pot? It even appears in the NPG Facility after you set up shop

>>3923178
It's watching.

>>3923178
I figured it was supposed to be an alchemy pot used for item synthesis, since you do that sitting in a nearby chair. It isn't always close to the chair though.

>>3923178
There are no toilets in any of the My Homes anon...

>>3924347
Secondary world of tears function

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I eat Yoko, it's what I do

>>3925605
this will be mewgenics graphics in 2013

So, lore question: Was Clock Girl created when/because Meim merged herself with APES? They both have that thing of safety through ignorance going on, so it'd make sense if the former's personality was copying the latter's

>>3926292
Clock Girl is a separate system, the evolved form of the time simulation/memory repression system, the one that existed since the beginning. She took on that form wanting to be noticed and accepted by the inhabitants of the Hat World, subconsciously emulating human behavior to achieve that. She fails to do so in Shiki's route (gets doomed to be eternally supressed by Shiki directly), and achieves that in the secret route.

>>3910360
Oh yeah, speaking of lore, let me know if I got these correct:

Dora (as well as her elder sister and Chocolat) died in a burning theatre, Shiki got torn apart trying to save Tsubame from a serial killer throwing that girl into the oncoming subway train, Janice drowned trying to save Mel, Natalie got run over by a car while crossing the crosswalk on green light, Lavie slit her wrists not being able to take abuse from her mother anymore and Mel fell off the yacht on a voyage with her parents.

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>>3926882
sorta
Janice drowned trying to save some random kid - she did succeed at least
Lavie's was related more to family strife in general (succession issues? pretty sure rich family stuff)
Mel just wandered off a pier while her parents were having Important Conversations
what i wanna know is who or what earthly creature could have killed Kelly

>>3926867
>the evolved form of the time simulation/memory repression system
Ahh yeah, that makes way more sense

Clock Girl should've kept the black face, she looks badass with it

>>3927009
>she looks badass with it
She doesn't want to be badass, she wants to have gay sex.

>>3927804
would

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Drew Feuilletine (I love her).
Also, any drawing requests?

>>3930483
Servi

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>>3931322
Here ya go

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>>3932667

>>3930483
Neat.
Kinda a big ask, but if you're up for it Ancient Superweapon Magironika ?

I've been meaning to play this game for years

>>3933331
You should, it’s pretty great.

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>>3933257
Sure

>>3933490
LOL

>>3930483
Very nice stuff, anon.
Could I get a Dahlia?

How do we convince Enu to release this game on steam?

>>3933490

If you really want to win why don’t you just… not get hit lmao.
Resurrect Gem this

>>3933791
Why the fuck would you want that?
What does it benefit Enu to pay $100 to put the game on Steam?
What does it benefit players if Enu decides to slap a price tag on the game which has been free for ages?

>>3934193
I just want more people to play Hat World

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>>3933540
Sure. Sorry for the wait, been busy these past few days.

>>3935217
Oh no, she's hot!
Thanks anon

>>3934554
So uh, tell people about the game?

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>>3910360
Holy... I've cleared the game already, decided to start a new game on another PC and I've learned that you can manually set the decoy rank. Man, do I feel dumb...

I'm currently sitting at 66 weapons obtained and I don't know what I'm missing. It's the last achievement I need to max out the box. Any ideas?

Is Shinyaku a direct upgrade to the original game, or are there enough differences to warrant playing the original? I'll play in moon anyway so the lack of translation for the original wouldn't bother me.

>>3937905
Did you try Alchemy Synthesis? Item Type exchange OOParts?