Re: [RJ155977] ONI
This game is well-made and fairly long. There's still so many parts of this game I don't understand (like how to get the secret items in the colored grid room) but hopefully providing a starting guide will cause more people to add tips.
I've made it through maybe six bosses now, so I'm going to make a walkthrough up to that point.
------Oni Walkthrough (Work in Progress)------
After starting the game, you will name your character. Hold the C key and hit the down arrow to exit the prompt.
[Intro Scene]
When you appear in the pink room, talk to the cat. When the scene ends, you will be in a classroom surrounded by girls. Talk to all the girls, then exit via the yellow arrow in the top middle. You will appear in your room. After the cutscene ends, you will be taken to a tutorial for the hand of god. Use the hand to kill all of the ghosts.
[How to use the Hand of God]
Hit Z or space to send out the hand. The hand of god is how you attack/undress ghosts and bosses. There is a counter on the back of the hand that counts down from 9 every time you send it out. When it gets to zero, you can’t use it anymore.
The hand of god “bounces” north a square every time it hits an enemy. If an enemy is above you and you are close enough to them, sending out the Hand of God while facing up will cause the hand to bounce on them continuously. As long as the enemy doesn’t move horizontally, you can walk south and maintain this bounce for free hits without wasting your counter. You can also move your character horizontally to cause the hand to jump between enemies after a bounce.
Enemies in this game have a proximity based path system. By default, they usually walk around randomly, but they will focus on you if you are close enough. Maintaining a moderate distance immediately south of an enemy makes it easier to combo them since they will head for your position vertically and not move horizontally as often.
You will reappear in your room. The bubble to the southwest allows you to sleep and recover your power. The book icon to the north is the only dedicated place in the game where you can save, though you will always be prompted to save before each floor of a dungeon, and before each boss.
The three black cats in your room take you to various locations:
The leftmost one takes you to a practice room for the hand of god.
The middle one takes you to the enemy study room. I’m not sure what its purpose is, or what to do here.
The rightmost one takes you to the room full of colored boxes which will contain your “offerings to god.” These are small treasures that you find by doing specific things in various areas. If you talk to the white cat in the middle of this room, you will be taken to a room with a different grid. The colored tiles give hints if you stand on them, though I’m not sure what the hints are for.
Back in your room, the "Zzz" bubble lets you sleep. When you choose to sleep or leave the grid accessed via the rightmost cat god, the game will ask what time you want to come out at. For the first couple bosses/dungeons, you will only be able to explore most areas outside of your during the morning, so don't bother switching time for the first sections of the game.
The entrance on the north wall of your room leads to the cat god. If you are stuck, he will tell you what area to search and at what time of day you should go there. Right now he tells you to head to the public park, but advises that you should be level three before you begin. You can level up by using the hand of god on ghosts and girls. Go ahead and level up a few times.
Enemies hurt you by running into your character. Running into an enemy will lower your "power," shown on the bottom left. Leveling up raises this number. If it gets to zero, your game will end. You can replenish your health for free by sleeping in your room. There are no soft continues or checkpoints in this game, only optional save prompts before bosses and dungeons, so don't forget to save often!
You can heal yourself with items from the vending machine one screen to the right of your house. Ghosts also drop healing items, and later you will be able to buy them from one of the girls in your house. At some point in the story, you learn about selling things online. This will allow you to sell the items that the ghosts drop via a bubble in your room. One of the first story events requires you to have 30,000 yen, so make sure to collect a lot of ghost items.