Character Creation Guide and Starting Tips (English)

Your guide to creating a character using the fan made English patch.

Intro

I've restarted the game many many times as I try to learn the various skills and combinations. This is just a quick guide to save you a few minutes in case you see the results of each question.

Question 1 - Title

This questions determines which Title is available to you which provides a passive bonus. Only one title can be active at once, including active Beastmaster pet if you choose to go that route.

• "Kind of Romance" - Always melancholy
  Qualification is an unlisted stat but has a fairly large impact on the game. It correlates to how much XP you get and is part of several dialogue checks in game.
  
  
  
• "Single Dog" - Flirtation
  Female allies do more damage, though unsure on what exactly the second half means.
  
  
  
• "Be a person" - Renaissance Madman
  Deals either extra sprain or cramp status.
  
  
  
• "Martial arts world" - Hindsight
  Physique covers several in game checks and effects carry weight. It looks like negative stats given to you are decreased by 30% but I haven't tested this yet.
  
  
  
• "Anyway" - Heaven's Lonely Star
  Far and above my top pick. You are basically boosted up when you are by yourself. The biggest benefit is the early game when you are solo, but it can still be used throughout the game when you are put into solo fights.

Question 2 - Personality

Your starting personality type.

• "For the country" - Good
  
• "Orders the world" - Evil
  
• "Let go of the waves" - Crazy/Wild
  
• "Strictly guarding" - Upright/Reserved

Question 3 - Second Title

These titles are more profession based. This Title cannot stack with Question 1, you can only have one active at a time.

• "Eat grass" - Reborn Shennong (Herbalism)
  I don't consider this worth it personally. I'm rarely at a loss for herbs and there is at least one area in the game that has a massive amount you can collect.
  
  
• "Mining" - Gold Miner
  You could get a some value out of Gold Miner but I personally avoid it because otherwise I'll save/load until I get a duplicate for any rare ore vein. In my opinion only worth taking if you are a swordsman since the top sword needs a lot of Darksteel.
  
  
• "Borrowing" - Hollow Man
  Easier stealing and my top pick for this section. Even as a good character there are times you will need to steal a key or a quest item.
  
  
• "No penny" - Rich Man
  Nothing fancy here, I don't usually consider money to be an issue so don't usually take this one.

Question 4 - Weapons

Note that you aren't yet choosing your starting weapon, just your bonus.


For reference here are the starting skill books during the tutorial.

Of note, Meteor Flying is the Arrow style and Jing Kewu's Handle is Short style. Most of these can be traded for in the Academy later on except for Thunderbolt Blade for some reason. Five Toxic Classics can be found in game if you let the girl take the snake in the first major quest line.

Question 5 - Talent Tree

Question 5 determines which talent tree you start in.

• "Fierce and innocent" - Hard Tree
  First Ability: Zhi Rou
  Focused on damage and crits.
  
  
• "Weaken and win" - Soft Tree
  First Ability: Killing with kindess
  Focused on defense.
  
  
• "Body like the wind" - Active Tree
  First Ability: Rabbit
  Focused on energy management and regeneration.
  
  
• "Advantage of strength" - Quiet Tree
  First Ability: Jing Yi
  Focused on counter-attacks.
  
  
• "Change the illusion" - Clever Tree
  First Ability: Cleverly break the clumsy
  Focused on giving out negative conditions to the enemy.
  
  
• "Return to truth" - Stupid Tree
  First Ability: To win with a clumsy victory
  Focused on brute strength and increased range.

Question 6 - Difficulty

Of note is that Hard difficulty increased party size to 5, and Hell to 6. In Hell mode you also lose if any character is reduced to 0 hit points, excluding pets.

If you are playing in Hell mode, be advised that you likely need either Heaven's Lonely Star or a character with high HP in order to make it out of the tutorial.

Starting Tips

Qualifications

The "qualification" stat is unlisted but you can get a sense of what your character's is based on the first fight. If you get around 150XP then you have high qualification. This effects the speed of leveling and is used for several in game requirements like copying scrolls from the Academy.

Items

Listing a number of things you can get or do in the first 10-15 minutes of the game.

Thunderbolt

The first thing you might want to do is steal the Thunderbolt ranged weapon. There is no stealing penalty for attempting this, and he even gives you things when you fail.

Dragon Ball

Once you are out oif the cave, you can get a Dragon Ball, 3000 gold, and a unique outfit. Take a short right and start here.

Once inside, grab the Darksteel, chest, and skeleton below.

To Exit, use the Escape option in the menu.

[Black Brownies]

can we change the talent tree in the middle of the game ??

[jumpingdeer]

There's an easier way to check your intelligence before you enter the 1st fight. After you are hit by Kong, you will have 3 options to respond. If one of the options is about Newton's 3rd law, then your intelligence is high. Can't remember the answer for the mediocre, but if the answer is about the weather, then your character is not very smart.
Another tip about intelligence is that it is INVERSELY proportional to your physique, but physique is DIRECTLY related to your health. Therefore, the higher your health, the lower your intelligence. Physique is also linked to how much health you gain per lvl, and it is not retroactive. So if you go high intel and low physique route, you'd better find things to increase your body early on to make the most out of it. For example, your character specialisation and/or a particular martial art book can raise your physique, and eating lots of "Millennial mushroom" will also raise your health.

[kinasuki]

cannot find dragonball.. I found the skellie with the throwing weapon tho... and if we dropped down from that skelly we find the old man ghost in front of the graveyard (which gives you the chosen one title.

[plutone00]

It has fan translation patch.

[Zoltrixer]

Hello,

Is this game available in English?

It says that it doesn't have English, so I am confused.

Cheers.