lazyproblems
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Just started this, the opening is gorgeous. Love the music and art style for this game.
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Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines |OT| Cursed for Life
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HypnoDarkrai
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I don't have any Secret Arts yet so I just gave the child my recently found Dancer trade.
Thanks for the info!
UnluckyKate
Member
I don't think this game is for me... It just seems so pointless.
You spent months getting lost and running around in maze like dungeons with no map or nothing to tell you the way. You have to draw it down and it seems to change depending of seasons... You level character but they die in average from 18 months when a dunjeon can take up to 4 months... You seem to lose all the gear that person is wearing, limiting your potential for powerleveling the new guys and thus making it hard to keep a well trained and balanced party at all time when you need to hit harder dunjeon.
Just got one shot every character from a god boss when looking for the second story boss. Out of nowhere. I was lost in the ice cave for 3 months, fighting against the rooms that are all the same next to each other with 3 exits per level and 3 levels to boot.
I love the aesthetic and battles, but I just don't get any sens of progression because nothing stays : characters come and go, loot doesn't stay, skills doesn't stay... Only town investments are something I can relate but I still can't fully understand how everything works because everything cost so much anyway. Even union rites, why paying more to unite with this god or this one ? There is no explanation of what it does less or more.
I can't find anything useful, the game isn't very new comer friendly. It's so unfocused that it let you plan all your action by the weasel : I have no idea what to do next so here, choose for me. I cant grasp any sens of progression and I get lost for hours in stupid maze levels. I get frustrated. I'm sure I'm missing tons of stuff but this game seems severely lacking a lot too, especially for a dungeon crawler. My clan, my offspring, all my babies and gods for a map, please.
You spent months getting lost and running around in maze like dungeons with no map or nothing to tell you the way. You have to draw it down and it seems to change depending of seasons... You level character but they die in average from 18 months when a dunjeon can take up to 4 months... You seem to lose all the gear that person is wearing, limiting your potential for powerleveling the new guys and thus making it hard to keep a well trained and balanced party at all time when you need to hit harder dunjeon.
Just got one shot every character from a god boss when looking for the second story boss. Out of nowhere. I was lost in the ice cave for 3 months, fighting against the rooms that are all the same next to each other with 3 exits per level and 3 levels to boot.
I love the aesthetic and battles, but I just don't get any sens of progression because nothing stays : characters come and go, loot doesn't stay, skills doesn't stay... Only town investments are something I can relate but I still can't fully understand how everything works because everything cost so much anyway. Even union rites, why paying more to unite with this god or this one ? There is no explanation of what it does less or more.
I can't find anything useful, the game isn't very new comer friendly. It's so unfocused that it let you plan all your action by the weasel : I have no idea what to do next so here, choose for me. I cant grasp any sens of progression and I get lost for hours in stupid maze levels. I get frustrated. I'm sure I'm missing tons of stuff but this game seems severely lacking a lot too, especially for a dungeon crawler. My clan, my offspring, all my babies and gods for a map, please.
Some spoilers, after the first four feasts:
Yeah it's the worst. I drew a map (poorly) and I dont know where the blue candle is.
So you have to go to the heptacolor hotsprings to save the princess. I was mapping it out and you reach a room with warping baths. The clues didn't make sense to me. ("??? ???? ????? ????? ???? ?? ???? ?????", I thought they might be color names but that doesnt really work), so I cheated using the wiki. The solution wasnt obvious and I don't know how it was obtained but I eventually got to the 5th major boss, Rikimaru. I was running from everything and figured I'd be waay too weak. However, a 4x Fiery Spiral and a 3x Fiery Spiral did him in. He only got one hit on my party and one-shotted one of my guys.
So I guess I progressed the story but I'm confused how that puzzle is supposed to be solved. Gonna go back and figure it out ><
So I guess I progressed the story but I'm confused how that puzzle is supposed to be solved. Gonna go back and figure it out ><
Yeah it's the worst. I drew a map (poorly) and I dont know where the blue candle is.
Plot twist: I bought the blue one in the shop. No, really. I was the first one surprised.
I think it was in the apotecary? Dunno if you need to invest in that to some level for it to appear, is random or what, but ey... look in your shop.
Oh, weird. I also found one of the wooden tags for the cat dungeon in a foreign land shop. Tricky.
Edit: Not in the shop but I found a second wooden tag ¯\_(ツ
_/¯spatenfloot
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That seems strange to me. I haven't had any problems so far with skills, equipment, or money. Skills are learned by your clan members when they stay in town so your new members should be learning. Maybe you don't have enough clan members. Maybe you should try a new game now that you have a little more idea what to do. Just go to a dungeon and kill stuff to get equipment and skill scrolls. Make new clan members so you can have a full party and one old and new member in town. Don't forget that there is no actual time limit for killing the bosses, so just fight them when you are ready.
spatenfloot
Member
Adoptions are also an option if you are low on devotion and don't want to waste the entire month on a union.
I do agree that dungeons can be overly complex, however you shouldn't be spending so much time in one. Your vigor is bound to get low. I only spend up to two months in a dungeon, but more often than not it's just one month. I'm also certain you don't lose gear when one of your characters dies.
Both your characters and gods have certain stats that carry over to their children making them more powerful. Ideally you shouldn't use a character all the way until they die. Use them for 18 months or so, then replace them so that you have a party of 2 or 3 stronger members and 1-2 newcomers. Also make sure their vigor doesn't get low.
Skills get passed down and you can also train your children. The weasel girl has a lot of help topics that you should check out.
spatenfloot
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Here is one of my latest, if anyone wants to use her.
Also an archer...
Basileus777
Member
Did you have one of your festivals in the forest glade? I'm still stuck trying to find it in that labyrinth.
I started doing that, except I keep them in the team until about 15/16 months. On general they last 20-22 months, I think the youngest I had die was at 16 months (my first death) because he got wrecked in the first festival contest.
I think my first was, and I don't remember where it was in that dungeon exactly.
KnightHart
Member
I started over, and I got that one and Hellaway or whatever for my first two dungeons.
Good god it felt like I lost the RNG game or something. It took me a while to find my first demon festival or whatever which was in Runaway Descent. I just kept going left and eventually found it
I think I may start doing that. I really think I may bust out the graphing paper, this game is the first in a long while I thought it might be necessary if you're going to get the most out of your time.
Yeah, it's really awful. I haven't even played the game today because I don't feel like wasting more time in there since I missed my chance this year.
Shouta
Member
Looking at the guide, there are actually 4 layout patterns per dungeon it seems.The guide gives you the features that make it unique so you can figure out which map to follow in it. I think this layout is decided when you start your game and doesn't change so a drawn map might be good for the rest of a single playthrough but not if you start over, lol.
lol
I just got the
5th instrument. Nueko and another clan member fell but I squeaked by.
I have all keys except Green. Wonder where it's hiding :/
I have all keys except Green. Wonder where it's hiding :/
Basileus777
Member
I'm stuck in the exact same situation.
Jarod McChicken
Member
>.<
Jarod McChicken
Member
In case it would help someone, I have been very lucky with my Heptacolor Springs pattern, I could have spend waaaay more time on this.
In my case,
led me to Kitsuto for the 3rd demon festival.
Of course we would be lucky if someone esle get the same pattern, not to mention I think Kitsuto may be waiting on another of the three ways.
In my case,
Green --> Yellow --> Green --> Yellow
Of course we would be lucky if someone esle get the same pattern, not to mention I think Kitsuto may be waiting on another of the three ways.
If you do the simple puzzle first and go back to the board, it will give you the answer to the next. At least it did in my case.
So, what are you guys doing with Nueko? I just resurrected her and now I'm not quite sure what to do with her. Apparently I need to use her for every boss from now on, so I guess that she should probably stay in my party for most of the time so she will get stronger? I don't really want to do that, though, I've got a clan to care for after all...
Jarod McChicken
Member
I'm gonna look at that, but given the description on the board where I landed, I think I discovered directly the third path (the harder one). Luckily, that's where Kitsuto is waiting for me o/
Jarod McChicken
Member
My Nueko died for the first time and personnaly I don't intend to resurrect her until my next demon festival, which is 4 months away. Don't know if it's the right thing to do, but we'll see.
Korialstrasz
Member
So I just start this pretty game and ... I'm stuck in a loop in the tutorial dungeon, sigh. I think I need a yellow key but I have no idea where to find that.
pretty sure you just need to back out of the dungeon and continue on with the game
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Deleted member 20920
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It's not intuitive but the key could be in another dungeon.
Korialstrasz
Member
Oh. Thanks. Now I feel even more stupid. I'm on the fourth month, still fighting monsters hoping they drop a key. At least I released a god, I guess?
BTW, at one time the map started glowing red and monsters starting dancing to some funky background music. Do you know what was happening and why?
spatenfloot
Member
That is a frenzy or something. Fight lots of monsters when that happens to get better loot drops.
spatenfloot
Member
That is exactly what the game is about!
spatenfloot
Member
She fights in my party. She's pretty good with the whip and magic.
So did anyone try out my QR codes above?
Finally found the third feast entrance. Huge difficulty spike with that boss, he targeted Nueko and then one shot her. Luckily my other members pulled through. Really like my current head (Purple haired girl), she has an heirloom weapon and 2 secret arts and hits pretty hard, also tends to counter enemy attacks a LOT. Gonna be sad to see her go.
HypnoDarkrai
Member
Missed the feast in the Heptopic Springs. D:
Couldn't find the entrance and I even went a month earlier.
Couldn't find the entrance and I even went a month earlier.
Haiiro Husky
Member
I started the game as well a few days ago and I also feel a bit lost and overwhelmed. I'm going to stick to it because it seems from the impressions many of you in this thread are giving, once it clicks, it'll hook you until the end.
I'm using her, dont have any jobs with a horizontal line attack ability so I find her super useful for that. I also think she adds a bit of visual variety and her stats make her pretty good as either support or a main attacker.