Easy / Casual / Gamer Modes

[Andrew R]

What do these mean SPECIFICALLY? LOL

I'm assuming Easy is well....fairly easy but still can present a slight challenge while Causal is pretty much for story only?

[The_Azure_Striker]

Casual is basically normal mode.

Gamer is Hard mode.

And then there's the unlockable Otaku Mode, which is basically sadism mode.

[William Shakesman]

If it's anything like past Acquire games, these modes represent the stats of the enemies you're going to fight.

Stuff like Way of the Samurai and Akiba's Trip 2 were balanced really tight on higher difficulties and while they tended to be perfectly doable, you would be at the limits of a system that rewards stats over skill but starting with 0 stats if you ran the hardest difficulty on your first run.

To put it simply, the easiest difficulty is a cake walk. The normal difficulty is decently balanced for a first run, and the hard difficulty will hurt you pretty bad on a first run and you will have to seriously care about getting your stats up if you want to survive to the end credits and will likely be able to keep running that difficulty on NG+ runs or take it to the unlockable difficulty once you have maxed gear.

I have not played THIS Akiba's Trip game but that is the usual formula of this developer's older games.

[Andrew R]

I appreciate that.

Would have been nice if that was explained IN GAME.

Now I may have start over again because I chose Gamer...

[1% Aoukar]

otaku is the only true mode

[ChairSupp0rt]

Originally posted by IneptiArk:

otaku is the only true mode

Hear, hear!

[Andrew R]

I want to give this game a fair shake so I'm going to keep at it. XD

[ChairSupp0rt]

Thank you very much still, for being an early supporter of this version, hope you will enjoy this series too.

Maybe your own this game mouse icon will show up later, if not, still thanks.

[The_Azure_Striker]

Originally posted by ChairSupp0rt:

Thank you very much still, for being an early supporter of this version, hope you will enjoy this series too.

Same here on my end!

[William Shakesman]

Originally posted by Andrew R:

I appreciate that.

Would have been nice if that was explained IN GAME.

Now I may have start over again because I chose Gamer...

Acquire has done this ♥♥♥♥ since Way of the Samurai 3, and especially Akiba's Trip 2 U&U and probably even earlier than that: Calling them difficulties when they really are musou style grind tiers. I can confirm the games are clearable on Hard from a fresh save though but you might be stuck in fights eating an entire medicine cabinet of healing items or cheesing AI or stopping to grind up a bit.

If it's anything like WotS, you should at least find higher tier loot to help you get going a bit better, but, if it's like Akiba's Trip 2, the actual loot stats matter a lot less than just paying to have it upgraded at whatever this game's mechanism is for raising stats, though of course boss weapons tended to have more useful movesets in 2.

That said if this game is like the other games, a single run of the game should be fairly short as there ought to be multiple routes and endings. But, again, I have no experience yet with this game to be sure, but both WotS and AT2 had endgame grind goals of getting every boss character's weapon and, for AT, clothes and underwear, just for completion's sake. And since the story needs to advance to where you fight those bosses, and in certain routes a boss might have a different drop than usual, the point is that you can replay the game a lot if you want to go for fanatical completionism. Again, I describe the GENERAL Acquire formula and cannot specifically say if this game matches.

[Algester]

same rules apply here you grind stats by upgrading your clothes by well slapping random clothing into your base cloth, for efficiency sake you need to upgrade same clothing type or weapon type with each other

technically this is where cloth upgrading even began being the first game entry well "second" considering this is based on the PLUS version

[Melodia]

Originally posted by ChairSupp0rt:

Maybe your own this game mouse icon will show up later, if not, still thanks.

Or maybe they own it on console?

[Andrew R]

This game just isn't my cup of tea.

( and it has NOTHING to do with "mature content.") There are just too many other things I'd like to get to in July / August...

[Turniplord]

Originally posted by IneptiArk:

otaku is the only true mode

Otaku mode was easy, with carried-over stats in NG+

However, there's another difficulty once you complete it on that mode, Holic...

Now, Holic is almost impossible. I grabbed the platinum on the PS4 version (I reviewed the game) and that mode took hours to carefully work through, you have to constantly use sunscreen so you don't die when your clothes are removed as it only takes 2 or 3 hits and you're naked!

[Andrew R]

I played it on a large TV yesterday. ( Switch )

And I just couldn't get past the graphics & gameplay.

Perhaps in the future I will try it in handheld mode but I can't really see it as anything BUT a curiosity...