The "Quest" system made me give up on this game

[Grandork]

The combat was very fun, but the Quest thing was so unfun that I uninstalled. Jesus Christ.

[Prinny]

what's so bad about it? just talk to someone three time then listen to his/her trouble then add to party and do the thing. it's standard quest process with three press of the A button instead of 40.

[Cutlass Jack]

You could just ignore the system entirely if you find it unfun. Its almost all optional.

[abarax]

Causality Link is completely optional (unlike some games I've played where an affinity requirement of certain number of people is required to progress story) - this means you don't need to do it. Most of the quests are very easy (equip something/go somewhere), the only slow part is actually doing it 500+ times.

That said, there are some good Passives that I specifically tried to get a couple of (mainly HP/SP regeneration) so it might not hurt to just do a few that give you useful stuff.

[Prinny]

This could be false but I heard you don't even need to do any trauma quest other than the tutorial one during Sweet-P chapter.

[Grandork]

It's not optional on Extreme, you need the Passives to beat the very hard bosses.

[Prinny]

you need a specific passive to deal damage to certain boss? I don't believe you.
stats-wise I haven't seen any "superstrong" passives with +50% accuracy and stuff...

...why do you play on extreme on your first playthrough? change it to hard in config... wtf is wrong with people? "I play on lunatic on my first try, naked and with no prior experience of the game but then I complain about it being too difficult and requiring thing I'd have on second playthrough"
okok that's not what you said. but that's how it sounded to me. Am I too far from the truth?

[archmag]

Originally posted by Grandork:

It's not optional on Extreme, you need the Passives to beat the very hard bosses.

It is still optional, you can turn Extreme off in options. It is your choice to choose playing on Extreme. Even then you don't have to collect all passives, you can take only the necessary ones, or even go without any of them if you have skill.

[Sage Emerald]

How do you even trigger them? Is it behind a certain story event? I just got Bisakawa's Catharsis, and I haven't done any yet. Do you just add them to the party and they tell you where to go?

[abarax]

After doing the first one for the story (one of the tasks needed to get to Sweet-P's Tea party), you can just talk to people 3 times to get them to Affinity 3, then talk to them again, look at the Profile to see their traits/trauma, then "Listen to Problems" - accept that, the game will generate a Trauma quest, and then you add them to the party.

To see what you have to do, look at their Profile. Top right, right under the "Trauma" it says "Alleviation" - which is the task you have to complete. Some you can't complete until you get certain stigmas, some you can't until you unlock later locations etc.

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

*Picks highest difficulty
*Whines about the game requiring extra effort to beat

That's some fedora powered logic right there.

Originally posted by Sage_Emerald:

How do you even trigger them? Is it behind a certain story event? I just got Bisakawa's Catharsis, and I haven't done any yet. Do you just add them to the party and they tell you where to go?

One of the main quests makes you go through it once. Then it's unlocked.

[Prinny]

once you talk to them three time and get from 0 to 3 "friends" then...
press the Y button (steam controller/xbox controller) when next to the person you want, then select "listen to troubles", say yes, then you press Y again and add them to party then you do the thing they want.
if equipping thing, make them wear the thing they need. dont worry, you'll never lose anything that way.
if meeting someone, go talk to that someone with them in your party.
if finding item, go find item with them in your party. etc.

[Sage Emerald]

Originally posted by The Zebu:

once you talk to them three time and get from 0 to 3 "friends" then...
press the Y button (steam controller/xbox controller) when next to the person you want, then select "listen to troubles", say yes, then you press Y again and add them to party then you do the thing they want.
if equipping thing, make them wear the thing they need. dont worry, you'll never lose anything that way.
if meeting someone, go talk to that someone with them in your party.
if finding item, go find item with them in your party. etc.

Thank you! I didn't catch that Listen to troubles was under the sub-menu!

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Is there any feasible way to actually keep track of the 524 NPCs? I'm kinda between "overwhelming" and "daunting". At the same time, you basically have 20 slots afaik for you entire party, but most boni seem to be really tiny...do they stack or amplify somehow?

[abarax]

The Japanese strategy wiki has a list of all students by locations or class.

The game doesn't really give you a way to look at them neatly. I would suggest either trying to use the wikis list and check off the ones you completed.

What I've been doing is making my own spreadsheet with name, gender, trait, year/class, requirements, and rewards for each students so I can check them off myself. Its tedious though, and out of a recorded 254/524 students, I've only completed 64 requests (~12%).

In short, game doesn't make it easy, doing it yourself is just as, if not more tedious lol.

Maybe an online google sheet that people could contribute to would help. The spreadsheet linked before in another thread had completely different information regarding the causality link.

[Soak]

Pretty sure the guy is just trolling, you can tell he doesn't even own the game as he has no icon beside his name.