Even with maxed magic I noticed that combined lumen attack at the start of the naval battle was only a "partial success" from a stats point of view (although I only had one crystal, dunno where you get another from), I still won the battle but awakening the kraken didn't seem like an optimal way to end the game, so I opted against it in another playthrough.
I think I'm pretty much done with the game for now anyway, while I liked it I was disappointed with how linear it turned out to be in the end. Since the game is very text-reliant rather than CG reliant (and its pretty much a visual novel with stats) there's no real reason they couldn't have expanded the game to include multiple plot branches or some kind of randomisation to mix things up. I was expecting a longer game and/or plot branching and I think they dropped the ball on that front and hurt replayability and the possiblity for an emergant narrative. The game would actually benefit and open up a lot from mods now that I think about it.
The second crystal doesn't really do anything I think,
I'm suppose to give it to someone so that person could be a lumen but in that playthrough I didn't run into anyone other than Charlotte which was just barely mentioned in the ending, and the crystal wasn't compatible with her.
I passed the stats check for lumen with all 3 stats maxed out I think, I was also wearing the magical girl outfit though so I don't know if that makes a difference.
I passed the stats check for lumen with all 3 stats maxed out I think, I was also wearing the magical girl outfit though so I don't know if that makes a difference.
Yea the game could be a bit longer, right now it's really just going back to see if passing different stats check will lead me to different events, and also making some different minor decisions.
I really hope they make another game with the same artist and also expanding on it, seeing that they have a lot of positive feedbacks, they might be onto something, it was an interesting game and surprisingly I really like the art too.