RPG RPG Maker [DEVIL'S OFFICE] SHRIFT (RJ209839)

[sadonion22667]

In any version of the game past 7.02, Genocide route requires any other route to be cleared beforehand, otherwise, starting from Haru & Liz, it'll automatically be switched to the neutral route.

Ahhh, okay I just completed a true mercy run and made a new folder to separate the two. Thank you for letting me know.

 

[patapouet]

Speaking of genocide route, can anyone tell me how to beat hyakki. I'm stuck in the final chapter "judgment", she comes to meet me and at the beginning of the fight the difficulty automatically switch to suicidal and she wipes the floor with me ?

please, i only wanted to bring mayhem upon the world : (

 

[goldendark]

i cant not ever see myself doing a genocide run all because you can name your character and i use my name even if i was put into a world like this i dont think ill be able to kill anyone just so i could survive longer cant wait to play EX4 and SHRIFT 2 around the end of the year unless the date changed.

 

[Anegorami]

Speaking of genocide route, can anyone tell me how to beat hyakki. I'm stuck in the final chapter "judgment", she comes to meet me and at the beginning of the fight the difficulty automatically switch to suicidal and she wipes the floor with me ?

please, i only wanted to bring mayhem upon the world : (

Still yet to face her myself since she was updated, but here the general tips:
- Hell Break, else she'll eventually use her finishing strike on you.
- Lightning magic was quite effective against her, Dumb Cat Staff may help.
- Make sure you have 90% of Codex unlocked, else go and do so before challenging her.

Currently going CHALLENGE mode to get Inf. RL (chapter 2-2 right now), Genocide will be next (again, on CHALLENGE).

 

[patapouet]

till yet to face her myself since she was updated, but here the general tips:
- Hell Break, else she'll eventually use her finishing strike on you.
- Lightning magic was quite effective against her, Dumb Cat Staff may help.
- Make sure you have 90% of Codex unlocked, else go and do so before challenging her.

So that was the reason for my crushing defeat ^^. I currently have only 75% of the codex unlocked.
My heart bleed when i think about all these lovely girls that i butchered for nothing...

Thank you for the tips, Anegorami !

 

[Anegorami]

All right, I'm finally at the point. Let's go with the actual tactics.
First of all, Hyakki is immune both to Fire and Ice magic. Wind magic "seems" to deal some damage but still not even remotely enough to bring her down. So, there are two valid options:
- Edge Dagger - deals 100 damage in stock, 300 when crits, will do 110 on crit after the next update.
- Psi Volt Tackle - deals 150 damage, has a 5% chance to stun Hyakki for one turn. Before you ask, yes, there is a chance to stunlock her for entire fight, here's the number:
(2,8574684782056874555394588707634 * 10 ^ -435)%

Meaning, you'll need roughly 6,6582974879239327986986369166441 * 10 ^ 430 years to see that outcome. Neat.
Unfortunately, no human would last that long, so let's get down to equipment.

- Weapon: Edge Dagger. Of course, since there is no MTTK nor MIRV (MMTK would, actually, be weaker than the dagger anyway, and MIRV is a post-game weapon).
- Offhand: Scaly Shield (if you're going defensive) or Ether Glove (if you're sticking with Psi Volt Tackle).
- Accessory: I WANT TO SCREAM "SKULL COAT", but no, Mystery Cream. Else the Lust gain will be too high to handle.

Now, to skills:
- Personally, I prefer Psi Volt Tackle approach, so: Vitality UP MAX, Magic UP MAX, Agility UP MAX, Vitality Regeneration, Magic Evasion.
- If you want to try going Physical way, Willpower UP MAX, Attack UP MAX, Agility UP MAX, Willpower Regeneration and Physical Evasion.
Note, however, that Magical Evasion gives you 30% chance, while Physical Evasion gives 10%.

Spells:
- Hell Break, since you need to keep Willpower high enough, else Hyakki would eventually finish Kazuya off. Guess that was made to counter Frozen approach I used before, see my previously recorded battle with her.
- Frozen (instead of HB) - will make Hyakki's moves even more bearable. Unfortunately, you'll have to come up with other way to constantly (at least, once per five turns) keep your Willpower above 50%.
- Since 195 SP is all that's given, there is no way to get BOTH Hell Break and Frozen, unfortunately. Gotta stick with one.
- Psi Volt Tackle, if you're going Mage route.
- Sylph Storm, keep it active at all times (same as Hell Break / Frozen).

And that's about it. With that set it should be possible to withstand her attacks and deal her damage up to the point when she starts to heal herself. Will update the post / make another one once I have a proper way to beat her past that.

 

[Mikufanboy]

I'm still hoping the creator expands the genocide route after we do all the EX dungeons. I want to see the world burn finally, and kill those remaining characters we didn't get a chance to because of Hyakki's cock block fight.

Side note, I was gonna commission some Hecate recently, but someone already asked for a 30,000 JPY video of her. What a mad man, I'll ask for her later so as to not burn out the creator on her, but damn that's going to be good.

 

[ネコマタ狂アラン]

I'm still hoping the creator expands the genocide route after we do all the EX dungeons. I want to see the world burn finally, and kill those remaining characters we didn't get a chance to because of Hyakki's cock block fight.

People here seem to be speaking without looking at the creator's Twitter or Ci-en, so I'll write down my thoughts.

G route:
I will explain how ridiculous this route is in EX4. This route was only needed to complete the line of the game SHRIFT, not really the madman who runs this slaughter.
By analogy, cooking requires fire. Only the madman will try to touch the fire just because it is prepared.
And after EX4 is over, Kazuya's story is over.
The existence of "that" of the G route will also be settled.

Hyakuki's Strength:
It will be even stronger when EX4 is delivered. It will also increase the fanning and battle time.
I want to tell you that killing on this route is a "waste of time".
She has about doubled her HP, is fully resistant to lightning, and has almost no critical hits.

The creator is G route "deprecated".
Please be prepared to not be able to see the ending after EX4 perfectly.

 

[Mikufanboy]

People here seem to be speaking without looking at the creator's Twitter or Ci-en, so I'll write down my thoughts.

G route:
I will explain how ridiculous this route is in EX4. This route was only needed to complete the line of the game SHRIFT, not really the madman who runs this slaughter.
By analogy, cooking requires fire. Only the madman will try to touch the fire just because it is prepared.
And after EX4 is over, Kazuya's story is over.
The existence of "that" of the G route will also be settled.

Hyakuki's Strength:
It will be even stronger when EX4 is delivered. It will also increase the fanning and battle time.
I want to tell you that killing on this route is a "waste of time".
She has about doubled her HP, is fully resistant to lightning, and has almost no critical hits.

The creator is G route "deprecated".
Please be prepared to not be able to see the ending after EX4 perfectly.

Sorry, I follow a lot of hentai game creators on CI-EN, twitter, fantia and pixiv fanbox, and I don't understand Japanese so I tend to just leave things to imagination unless they post imagery. I could machine translate every page but I feel I could get the information incorrect too due to how inefficient machine translations are.

If I'm understanding this right, if we finish EX4 the G route will also be finished in a way? I don't quite understand what you mean, but it's better not to know in this case so as to not be spoiled. I look forward to the update either way! I am one of those madman that enjoyed the G route, killing everyone after first doing the pure love route to and then seeing the despair in their dialogue and expressions, ah what a delicious story! Beautiful writing, thank you for the hard choices~.

 

[Anegorami]

Hyakuki's Strength:
It will be even stronger when EX4 is delivered. It will also increase the fanning and battle time.
I want to tell you that killing on this route is a "waste of time".
She has about doubled her HP, is fully resistant to lightning, and has almost no critical hits.

Well, that effectively negates Psi Volt Tackle, but I've found another ways to deal with her recently, so, not a big deal.
Anyway,


Also, a question: will there be any reward for clearing Genocide route on the hardest difficulty akin to Infinity Rocket Launcher for True Mercy?

PS: Thank you for giving the player a reward item that instantly boosts girls' affinity to 100 - really needed that after killing them.
Because for some reason they were too sad about that.

 

[Mikufanboy]

I only really cared to waifu Hecate and she isn't waifu'able so it doesn't matter. Body has a sexy body but she's just a doll in the end, Nina is just a typical idol wannabe. Kill them all.

 

[ネコマタ狂アラン]

Oh, maybe it's useless no matter what I say.
I've been peeking through this thread for some great people who sometimes send me feedback via direct mail, but it doesn't seem to make sense for me as the creator.
Please contact us directly via Ci-en or Twitter only if you have any impressions other than the killing route or if you get any fatal error.
Certainly, you are free to go any way in this game.
However, I treat them friendly only to those who say they "like them friendly".
I am the creator of them.

 

[Mikufanboy]

Oh, maybe it's useless no matter what I say.
I've been peeking through this thread for some great people who sometimes send me feedback via direct mail, but it doesn't seem to make sense for me as the creator.
Please contact us directly via Ci-en or Twitter only if you have any impressions other than the killing route or if you get any fatal error.
Certainly, you are free to go any way in this game.
However, I treat them friendly only to those who say they "like them friendly".
I am the creator of them.

Huh? They why'd you give us the option to kill them! Don't bullshit me. If you truly wanted to just see them only happy then you never would have given us the ability to murder them and have a route dedicated to just that, alongside the various changes that happen in the dialogue if you befriended them beforehand. As I have completed the game in both routes, I am not biased solely towards killing them, I simply enjoy thrilling and daring storytelling, like BLACK SOULS 2. That Shrift had this option was a great interest to me. I got to both enjoy the vanilla hentai content, and enjoy a daring story. As the creator to both these aspects, I would have expected you to understand both sides of this coin. As long as people enjoy the creation in the end, isn't that all that matters?

Though, perhaps the inconsistency in the machine translation is leading us astray, I would not dare wish to seem like I don't care about the characters, rather that I was motivated to see their despair is another form of sadistic love interest hehe. But either way, I did show my support by buying the game, so I'm guilt free. This forum is easier to communicate desires, it's not solely a developer blog too you know. I don't want to bother you on CI-EN for silly things like this.

 

[Kaerdron]

Just because the option is given it doesn't mean it is favored by the author or even approved. I mean, the game repeatedly show you that going full genocide turns the protagonist in a monster. And the whole point of the "block" is to show that even the more passive monsters want to stand up to Kazuya and the one who is turning him in an abomination by going out of his way to murder everyone. One that is apparently going to be an antagonist in EX4 if I read the author right.

Afterward, you're free to prefer this route to the normal one, but don't be surprised that the creator doesn't like the idea of people going out of their way to massacre everyone like a murderhobo on steroids given the chance.

Also that:

I would not dare wish to seem like I don't care about the characters, rather that I was motivated to see their despair is another form of sadistic love interest hehe.

That's. F*cked. Up.

 

[Civilincubus]

Oh, maybe it's useless no matter what I say.
I've been peeking through this thread for some great people who sometimes send me feedback via direct mail, but it doesn't seem to make sense for me as the creator.
Please contact us directly via Ci-en or Twitter only if you have any impressions other than the killing route or if you get any fatal error.
Certainly, you are free to go any way in this game.
However, I treat them friendly only to those who say they "like them friendly".
I am the creator of them.

The option provides contrast and the choice provides immersion. Personally, I like the karma component of the storyline, if you torture the characters, you'll get your comeuppance in how the game ends. After all non-consenting sadism invites reprisal.

 

[goldendark]

aint it us that controlling kazuya from what hecate was saying to us during the fight with the power we have for reset/close game if anything goes wrong and reloading was thinking she was breaking the 4th wall

 

[Mikufanboy]

Just because the option is given it doesn't mean it is favored by the author or even approved. I mean, the game repeatedly show you that going full genocide turns the protagonist in a monster. And the whole point of the "block" is to show that even the more passive monsters want to stand up to Kazuya and the one who is turning him in an abomination by going out of his way to murder everyone. One that is apparently going to be an antagonist in EX4 if I read the author right.

Afterward, you're free to prefer this route to the normal one, but don't be surprised that the creator doesn't like the idea of people going out of their way to massacre everyone like a murderhobo on steroids given the chance.

Also that:


That's. F*cked. Up.

What kind of nonsense does that mean, not even approved? He created and inserted it into his game! It wasn't some fan mod patch content. If that doesn't imply he wasn't at the very least OK with it then there's clearly some bipolar issue here. What kind of creator injects in great detail things he loathes for his lengthy, hard and passionate novel work? I can only think of tortured artists, and I don't want to believe that as it's quite unlikely. If the creator has a preference for a hero story with harem then so be it, but if he chooses to simultaneously ignore he own creations and the fans that enjoyed a piece of content he created... Well, I guess all I can say is we got baited hard. You don't have to pick either extreme, you just need to be understanding which is the only point I'm getting across here. Mah, maybe with SHrift 2 we just won't get to genocide and all will be normal.

And yeah, sadism in general is a messy business heh.

 

[TheUnsaid]

What kind of nonsense does that mean, not even approved? He created and inserted it into his game! It wasn't some fan mod patch content. If that doesn't imply he wasn't at the very least OK with it then there's clearly some bipolar issue here. What kind of creator injects in great detail things he loathes for his lengthy, hard and passionate novel work? I can only think of tortured artists, and I don't want to believe that as it's quite unlikely. If the creator has a preference for a hero story with harem then so be it, but if he chooses to simultaneously ignore he own creations and the fans that enjoyed a piece of content he created... Well, I guess all I can say is we got baited hard. You don't have to pick either extreme, you just need to be understanding which is the only point I'm getting across here. Mah, maybe with SHrift 2 we just won't get to genocide and all will be normal.

And yeah, sadism in general is a messy business heh.

You can't assume intent that simply.
It could be that the option to be a genocidal maniac exists because he wanted the option of being peaceful to be a choice.

It's important enough that it's a choice that he created an entire route to give the option.

That being said, it's not like both path's are equal in how much of the narrative they give out or how much characterization you get.
Genocide has 0 adult content for that reason.

And yeah, sadism in general is a messy business heh.

Dude I kinda feel bad for you.
You're playing a game where the predominant sexual content is female assertive sex, and ignoring all the sexual content to roleplay an asshole.

Why play a game that's sexual content is literally not to your tastes?
Why play a porn game if you aren't here for the porn?

 

[Captainstarfish]

You're playing a game where the predominant sexual content is female assertive sex, and ignoring all the sexual content to roleplay an asshole.

Why play a game that's sexual content is literally not to your tastes?
Why play a porn game if you aren't here for the porn?

Because he gets off on the monster chicks begging for their lives before he domes them? Maybe he likes the suffering of the MC?

He already said sadism, that's pretty much a given in any game with rape.

 

[super_slicer]

Aren't they trying to devour/enslave your soul? Just killing them seems like mercy or at least a de-escalated response considering what they're trying to do to you. I'm a bit lacking on context though.