Sunday, May 25, 2025

4 characters stuck at 1/2 of a limit break:

I've gotten a good haul of free SS Memorias lately -- I got base form Karen, vulpine Miya, the ticket based Yurippe, and a luck based Isuzu.  But it's all no use because 10 shards aren't enough to give people limit breaks beyond level 2.  For level 3 and level 4 limit breaks I need 20 chance-based shards, or more realistically, 10 chance based shards and 10 protean shards.

Currently I have 4 girls stuck in limbo -- bathing suit Sumomo is waiting on her level 4 limit break, while bathing suit Tsukasa, base Isuzu and base Ichiko are waiting on their level 3 limit break.  All four are girls I use regularly in my strongest parties, so they're all a priority.  >.<.  I guess if I had to choose it would be maxing out Sumomo.  But with only 4 protean shards getting anyone where they should be is going to take a long time.

At least I've upgraded everyone's charm equipment to reasonable levels.  It's all +2 or above when it comes to the four stats that scale -- Dex, Str, Spi and Vit.

I'd say my strength has surpassed everything the game expected of me, except for the existence of the clock tower on hell mode.  I'm stronger than everything else in the game, but way weaker than that challenge.  I'm not sure what they were thinking, making hell clock such a different dimension from the rest of the game.

I flipped a few lower tier songs to 5-star and vice versa.  Amaryllis, Soul Universe, Theme of the 100 Years Quest, Toxic, GG, As Swift as Wind, and Rise Up High! were the beneficiaries, with Tyrano Castle, Under Martial Law, Aozora, Memories in the Earth, Share the Light, Mining Town and Castle Damcyan being the victims.  So my music hall of fame wasn't quite done -- but now it is.  As usual it was vocals going up and instrumentals going down, as vocals are more moving and memorable.  The only unusual aspect is Amaryllis is sung by a boy.  I don't tend to like male vocalists, but this one is special.

As for Cafe Stella, I beat the Kanna route -- she's very beautiful but it was pretty cheap of the story to revive her from the dead.  Well, the story was lame, but she herself was still a wonderful person, it's not like she wrote the story, so I stand by her inclusion in my hall of fame.  Now I'm on the Mei route, the only girl so far that's not in my hall of fame from this game.  Maybe I'll change my mind by the end of the route, though.

Okay, now I've finished the Mei route, and I haven't changed my mind.  She's very pretty, especially when her bangs aren't hiding her left eye, but she has an annoying tendency to complain and dither and be wishy-washy about everything.  I like sincere girls more.  Strangely I feel like Suzune was more attractive in the Mei route than Mei herself. . .  In any case, now all that's left is the Natsume route and I'll have finished this double helping of visual novels one after the other.  Does life get any better than dating this many great girls in a row?

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