A Rough guide to Masquerade Hell Academy

An attempt to help others piece together the real story of the game.

Route Guides

Part 1: Basics and Romance

You want more standard romantic endings between Numata and his classmates? Fairly intuitive!

Note that while the other adults can give you information, they are not romanceable.

When given the option to, focus on either Himehara or Hachiouji, when prompted to partner up, favor picking one of them. If there is a more feelings forward dialogue choice, such as, “I’m glad we’re together.” or “I’m sorry.”

When asked to get “toys” with one of your classmates, ignore that, and go into the showers when prompted, I’m pretty sure getting this extra scene and flashback is what flags a good end, assuming you do a few other things.

Easiest route to a good end is when prompted is “say you want revenge” and then later, “grab him.” Grabbing Aota leads to him being arrested, and if you focused on one of your classmates, you should get an extra romance event, yay!

If you do not grab Aota, you get the bad end, where everything continues and only one character survives a massacre. Poor Hiroshi!

Wait! MR. SHIMENO SURIVES IN THE BAD END? And why does that smile look so familiar to me, especially after I got that scene in the music room in the beginning when I decided to follow the noise instead of ignoring it? I thought that was Aota!

…. WAIT A SECOND?

Congratulations! You’ve now fallen down the same rabbit hole I did! 😊

Welcome to the results of my suffering!

Part 2 IS THERE A SUBNARATIVE? Short answer, yes!

LONG ANSWER:

Alright, so, from playing the basic game you learn a few things when you go with an adult to grab the toys: Mr. Shimeno says he has blackouts occasionally and from you learn from Takaura that Aota specifically targeted the school, it wasn’t a random choice. I got curious after getting the bad end, and Aota has a memory of a “brother.” So, of course, next route I tried to focus on Shimeno to see if I could get Aota to react about it. Okay, Mr. Shimeo isn’t really a route, his headaches stop him from participating a lot.

Then, an interesting combo happened.

Get the piano room scene.

“Ask him to release Shimeno.”

…. It works. Aota let’s Shimeno go. You can’t use the skip button here, even though the dialogue doesn’t really change from the base game, save here if you’re CG hunting, because yes, there are variants.

If you go for the bad end here, Shimeno comes back! And the reveal of the twins begins!
I think it was after I did that combo that the opening narration changed from Hiroshi to Aota, and an option to listen in to the hallway conversation after the initial hostage taking popped up.

If you do this, you get basically a sub route where the twins switch places, and you get a fuller picture of an incident that happened when they were five. It’s not pretty and it recontextualizes the opening scene. In this, the other adults are not taken hostage and instead try to get answers from who they think is Shimeno, about the event twenty years ago.

If you’re wondering what happens to the three students during this sub route, it’s basically the same route for them as the bad end.

Part 3 Bikini:

Okay, so, I was initially going to test another potential combo when I see, “Release the bikini,” pop up during the “ask to release someone” scene in the beginning. I had to click it.

It was at this point I lost my mind because it was a Whole. Other. Scenario.

But I’m pretty sure this is how to get the golden ending! This is the only end where the twins are both ok, and Hiroshi has a less complicated relationship with Himehara!

If I discover anything else I’ll update this!