SILVIUTM'S PROFILE

If you have both keys, then you should be able to open both houses. Go to the house on the right, if i recall correctly, and interact with the saw on the table, to cut the doll.
If the one on the right doesn't have a saw, but a fireplace, then go to the one on the left.

Man, Myra waifu
Man, I have so many ideas, that I simply can't phrase them properly.

I'll start with the general ideas, like the art. I have to say, I am not exactly the biggest fan of art that tries to be as realistic as possible, but hell, this is gorgeous. I love each expression the characters have, since they can be both sweet and hilarious or sad and serious.
The cutscenes are beautiful, indeed. Although, one thing remains a mistery for me... Did the demo not have a different cutscene at the first spring? It was all scary and stuff. You guys legit made me muster courage to not get caught off guard by... some images of the modern world.

Also why is Myra so cute?
Funny, before diving deeper into this game's lore, I thought the slime enemy sprites were sad.



Talking about lore, you did such a great job creating this story, and the way you told it, too. What a coincidence that exactly 4 people that had it really rough went to the same college and became friends. And everything that happened... looking back on it, it's sad.
To this day, I still have no idea who revived the Stone and Ice Guardians if Leelee was next to her friends, and she herself started going like "You were supposed to protect us".

You know, it's kinda weird. They felt that Turovero was calling them to it, since they are the Four Gods, yet, at the same time, it was trying to stop them, making use of physical and mental attacks.
In the end, Turovero is just your everyday, regular tsundere.

Oh, the Four Gods, yes. I would lie if I said I didn't start getting the idea of the main party being the four gods.

It became clear after reaching the First Spring, since that's the first place where the "symbol"(?) of the Four Gods can be seen coloured. And what a coincidence, it seems the colors of the symbol are the same as the main colors of each character, aND wHAt a coIncIDenCe, the colors are placed in the same way the characters are placed when teleporting to the next floor.
Yikes, the amount of foreshadowing in this game made me come up with so many ideas, that made me hype, just so they can be shattered or confirmed after the Second Spring.



Gameplay-wise, I am so glad I got rid of Leelee's rebellious acts that destroyed my entire strats against those hell of fights in The Ascend. Like, I just want to heal Sigurd, who literally was carrying the entire team with his defend skill, then Leelee's like "lol fuck no I ain't doing that stupid shit lmao. it's better if I just get everyone killed by trying to whip my enemy with some grass."
I believe Leelee was trying to inflict the "Stoned" debuff on the enemies, but oh well.

I really appreciate the fact that Leelee turned into the full-fledged Dark One just because of her memories, making it possible for the 4 of them to actually continue their game of D&D where Melissa was supposed to be the Dark One. Nice touch there, really!

Where was I? Ah, yes, Ami was such an upgrade. She wasn't exactly as squishy, though I don't know which version of Ami I got.

Also, I found the difficulty gaps very weird. The first floor was cool, it was the welcoming floor. The second one seemed pretty much equal to its demo counterpart, it was hard until you got to Ami (which was pretty adrenaline-rushing-ish, since you had to go through more than half of the floor).

The First Spring was the most difficult, since I swear I always overlook those plant buds for the free supplies.

The sudden realization in the Garden that the healer and waifu are missing hit me like a damn truck. If I wouldn't have hoarded on items after seeing how punishing the Ice floor was, I may have had to follow the path of the coward until I got to Ami, which, ultimately, would have shattered my fragile masculinity.
Also, I still feel bad for that first naga we encounter, who likes Sigurd.
I knew something bad was going to happen if I kept flirting, but I was just "curious what will happen if I keep doing it".
That scene broke my heart so much, that even after reloading the save and flirting only once, to ask her name, I could still feel bad.

The ruined town was more scary than hard. It also felt like the enemies dropped more exp, since I started using the monster repel item, and I used it most of the time, yet I ended up having the girls 1 level higher than the boys, who fought a whole lot more enemies.

After passing the Second Spring, not only my mind started going nuts after such a plot twist, The Ascend's difficulty gap wasn't helping either. Like, did the enemies start eating steroids after getting beaten up, or did the party simply not get stronger, even with 12 levels up?
Safe to say, The Ascend is the place where I finally met my new friend, the Game Over screen.
Again, Leelee's behaviour during fights was cancer, and added a lot of difficulty to the fights, since it was also hard to develop a strat without her.
Thank you for replacing squishy Elf Mom with Merchant Magicka Girl.

The Labyrinths were pretty interesting.
Truly, best moment was when Ruby realized about the existence of the ninjas. I can bet everybody had the same reaction when seeing them.

The Chapel is where I drew the line, since the encounters were every 5 steps. I apologize to the 20 monster repel items I hoarded for abusing them to slide through the chapel. Except at the end, since the fake statue encounters were kind enough to nullify my repellant every single time.

After passing the Third Spring, with its really long vision of how they died, and the proper introduction to best girl Myra, the summit of the tower happened. And how can you not be greeted by some really cool Steroid Eaters? I don't know if it's just me, but they were enough material to ragequit.
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Only to come back next day, load a previous save file and grind like 3 or 4 levels and unlock tempest and Ami's AoE light skill. Was I really that underleveled for completing chapel at like level 20?
Well, it's safe to say that the new acquired skills allowed me to turn the Steroid Eaters into Dirt Eaters.

"Eat this!" said the perfectly sane person whilst killing all 5 Eaters during the same attack.

I swear, that was satisfying.

Beside the fight against the Naga and Undead girls, there isn't much I can say about the rest of the summit.

I mean, the second boss fight theme rocked, and Leelee just confirmed the Druid meta in D&D!

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Truth be told, the final boss was also difficult to beat emotionally.
Seeing Melissa there, I couldn't help but use the "defend" command for around 10 turns straight, before starting to attack.
Gotta say, tho, it was pretty weird how the music and sprite made her look very weak, yet her stats were high af.


There were also those times where it just got frustrating with how many times my attacks would miss, but that's just RNG being RNG.

Honestly, this journey was worth it. I mean that.
I am quite disappointed for missing the 18:18:18 mark though




Well, having read that there may be an alternate outcome by getting eddie and leelee together, time for 20 more hours of bad puns, dirty jokes, moody elfs, macho dulcimer users, ultimate nerds with a crush, and lesbian gemstones.

But, I think what got my attention more than that is the rune alphabet of the four gods.
Thanks to eddie's final trial, it should be possible to decipher the message wrote in runes when pressing "new game".


Man, I can't wait to die so I can ascend to the Developer's Room.


Also,



In the end, thank you, and your team, for creating this game.

i mean falling into that hole

Ah, since PotF was mentioned, I'll begin shamelessly self promote myself: ahem, I was planning to stream PotF's demo on Twitch in like...10-14 hours(trying to finish the demo in less than 1 hour). It'd be awesome if you got to join even for a few seconds https://www.twitch.tv/silviutm