Hanako Games

If you dig deep enough into the history of Nova, you find out all sorts of things about the Lumen royal line and the different ducal lines. It says the Novan nobility migrated from the western continent, but that the people of Lillah were formerly Yeveni nomads. Which makes me wonder if the dukes of...

High risk in the foreseeable future, or for the long term?

I'm guessing the reason I didn't progress with cookie boy is because I missed the poison check. Given how many tries it took me to track him down... This may take a while.

He doesn't start a war because you refuse to marry him. He starts it because of Elath and poor Adair. The intrigue skills lay out the whole sordid tale, although Erwin also has something to say about it.

What about the faith check at the festival? Or isn't that necessary?

It also solves the "easy mode" problem by making the game easier the more you play, even if you lose. Or, easy mode could be an extra toggle that gives you extra points if you start a new game with it enabled. Obviously, I could just pretend this feature exists and do it myself using the developer ...

NEW CONTENT now in beta - 1.1.16 New character Evrard added - there are SEVERAL epilogue variants, I get carried away. As this character can easily be missed entirely, start by looking in the paths where you allow Julianna to stay at the castle and teach you. Some new tests of Climbing skill, inclu...

How does that annoying jerk with the glasses get the poem? (the guy that tries to marry you early on) If you fight with him in the game, then try to marry him, it'll mention him reading the poem at the very end. :O Talarist, that's not very politic. Doesn't embarrassing his wife reflect badly on hi...

Is the poem about the squid a sign of commoner disapproval? It's very medieval, reminds me of the stories my brother used to tell me when he was studying history.

Just what the title says. Spoilers abound so hit the back button if you want to remain unspoiled. SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER SPOILER BARRIER Peasant insurrection. How bad do you have ...

If I ever manage to get a job... Well, it won't bump Solstice off my list, but it's something to think about.

Another item for my personal checklist:

Have you released a kraken to sink a fleet of pirates?

Good stuff.

I was wondering whether Lucille's black hair could be considered dark violet or dark blue. The pink eyes are an outlier, though. From a visual design perspective it makes sense to give adult characters darker or more naturalistic hair colors. Especially someone who's as much of stick in the mud as L...

...I'm starting to like Alice. I may be a bad person.

This isn't actually about the genetics of Lumen magic, I just wanted to use the pun. Heh. Given how complicated the family trees are, I find it interesting to note which relations bear a family resemblance to each other: Banion, Brin and Bennett look a fair bit like each other (by extrapolation, sin...