Hanako Games

Yep, definitely didn't keep dry eyes on this one. Especially on Ermegarde's route, which was my first one, and maybe because of that, she remains my favourite. Excellent writing as always. The only minus is relatively little replayability compared to a LLTQ or Magical Diary, but well, it's a re-imag...

A lot of Ignatius' defense depends on the exact nature of his disinheritance, which is strictly in the realm of headcanons. If it was just a 'sorry, Ignatius, but if you're not willing to take the Lumen Crystal, you cannot be the Duke' it reflects badly on him, but if he was actually fully cast out,...

I think Ingatius plain old doesn't like his sister. After all, the old Duke of Ursul made a point of disinheriting him so Juliana could inherit. Possibly something to do with magic? Perhaps Ignatius refused the magic, or perhaps he didn't have a talent for it and Juliana did. Anyway, if you imprison...

I usually start fishing for items. With one or two +15 items you can manage to get there, provided you have one of your two more observing minions have a bit of upgraded observation.

Hah, mind you, ambitious as Banion is, and the fact that Brin and Banion seem pretty tight (not Corisande and Kivan tight though) I could see the southern siblings making an offer to Juliana similar to the one that Elodie can get. Marry the brother to love the sister. Though checking some let's play...

Oh yeah. I know this is all just cloud castle building. With 'expansion' I very much mean 'Nova getting bigger', not LLTQ getting even more content. Hm, and true about Shanjia. Then again, the fact that they are threatening might well be a motivation for an expansionist queen Elodie to decide to exp...

Maids gossip, it's one of those things. Where do you think we're getting all our juicy intrigue from after all? And the issue is that you are a 14 year old girl with the power of life and death over everyone in the kingdom. If you seem to be incapable of dealing with that, that's very much something...

So, I just finished a pretty militaristic Queen. (I think the fact that you can hire criminals for your army even if you don't face a civil war is pretty neat) and I was thinking of what kinds of expansion an Elodie who tends to stare longingly at Imperial Nova maps might have plans for. And I thoug...

Yeah, as I read her, Alice seems to try to do things 'properly', and getting into a relation with her queen is very much NOT proper, as well as particularly dangerous to her, since the power dynamics in such a relation are several kinds of f up. Which is another reason why dancing with Alice is a cr...

Oh, d'uh, reread the logs and you're right. that makes me feel dumb. Only small note then would be that Bennet's info-thing has some false information. But that's probably Beta stuff then, since that conversation is new with the beta. Presumably, that would mean that either Bennet and Lieke do their...

Actually, I just did a playthrough where I did just this, and Bennet is marked as 'Duke of Hellas' with Bannion still marked as 'alive'. Might be an oversight?

You know, I was just reading a Let's Play, and I just noticed something. If you have Brin executed for starting the war, her brother Bennet inherits as Duke of Hellas. However, if Bannion later gets himself executed or killed in a duel, it's said that his brother Bennet will inherit the title of Duk...

Looking around a bit, I think this is the Lewish M in question. But it might have been a non-recorded stream, meaning that let's play is like tears in the rain.

We'll show the bad end. And then vote whether to restart from the start, or retry the last choice.

I did the Callum route first, and I don't feel the experienced lessened by it. The Oscar Route also offers some extra information about the assassin, and where that stuff all comes from. So your two main male love interests both give a separate part of the puzzle, and each handles the situation in a...