Thanks! Also I meant chappter 21 not 22 lol, silly mistakle.
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The Essential Character Challenge Run:
The Dark Amulet and The Shadow of Dawn were both incredible, both in their game play and epic storytelling! One of the things that makes both of these games unique is the many number of characters that are essential to the plot, and will trigger a game over when killed. As you play through the game the number of essential characters become smaller and smaller.
So I asked myself, can I defeat the game on hard mode using only essential characters? It turns out you can, but it was a wild ride!
I wasn’t able to find a list of the essential characters outside of the game, so I was not able to plan out which characters I would have till the end exactly, but I had played through the game and had a general idea of who would be with me for the long haul. Turns out there were a lot of characters I thought might be with me for longer who I had to leave behind. There were also some characters that were essential to me in my first play through that I wasn’t able to touch at all… cough, cough, (Hilda). Fortunately, the game makes it very clear who is essential at varying points of the game. It also got tricky when a character is recruited automatically who is not essential, moving them around the map so that they wouldn’t engage with enemies, especially reinforcements from the back.
There are two ways you could play the run when characters that were essential become no longer essential. When you start a chapter after the preparation a map will tell you if a list of characters are no longer essential. You can either restart the chapter and deselect those characters (which is how I did it), or you can count that chapter as the last time you can used those characters.
I could go on and on about how much fun I had, but I mainly wanted to share the fun with you all. It is a really fun way to play back through such an excellent game, especially if you go into it blind!
Thank you Vorgus for such an amazing game. I can’t wait for the third in the trilogy!
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Hello! I recently downloaded this and I been enjoying it really like that this game as Romance option, I di have a question, how exactly does increasing support work? Do I glue to them or just be in the same map?
It’s Tellius Style supports, meaning they just have to be deployed to the same maps X number of times until the Support is ready.
The best way to do support tbh, wish all romhacks would do it like this!
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