My collection log is a mess of sticky notes and half erased pencil marks. 63 regulars, 9 legendaries, 7 hidden girls. The Earth and Sky areas finally stitched together in this full version, though the dev calls it 90% done and honestly you can feel that in the little things. Some battle transitions just sort of happen without much fanfare and the audio cuts in weird, like someone remembered sound design halfway through a zone. But none of that matters when you corner a legendary in the steampunk quarter and her defeat portrait loads with that specific expression. You know the one. Where the fantasy armor is barely hanging on and her eyes go half lidded. The tactics layer is simple grid positioning stuff, nothing that'll challenge Fire Emblem veterans, but the real strategy is figuring out which encounters trigger which CGs because the game sure won't tell you. Found a hidden girl purely by backtracking through a foggy forest area I'd cleared ages ago. No indicator, no hint. Just there. My heart did that stupid flutter thing.

The art situation is complicated. Most of it's borrowed from around the internet, the dev's upfront about that in the disclaimer, and it shows in the inconsistency. One battle you're facing a gorgeous hentai piece with perfect linework and the next girl looks like she wandered in from a different game entirely. The graphics got lowered to 80% quality which I guess helps blend things but also makes some of the spicier details a little muddy. Why would you do that to the legendary girls specifically. There's this one sky area encounter with mechanical wings and copper tubing everywhere, proper steampunk aesthetic, and her defeat scene is genuinely hot until you notice the compression artifacts on her thighs. Still saved the screenshot though. What does that say about me.

The sci-fi zone has these floating platforms that mess with the tactics formula in ways the fantasy section never attempts. Wish the whole game committed to that kind of mechanical variety instead of frontloading the interesting stuff. But then I found another hidden girl behind a waterfall that I swear wasn't interactable on my first pass and suddenly I'm three hours deeper with a half finished HOF document open in Notepad. The Newgrounds mail feedback thing feels charmingly ancient. Like sending a letter to a wizard who might grant your wish if you phrase it right.