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Quick reply 'cause I totally forgot to explain a game mechanic (mostly because I didn't actually figure it out until the beginning of this playthrough):
Endrion posted:
Liking the thread so far, but I had a question. In most of the conversations so far I've noticed a little semicircle bar thing on the left hand of Ogami's portrait with various colored portions. While I can take a guess, I have to ask, what is that? An indicator of how well you impressed each of the ladies that time out?
At the beginning of each chapter, the little gauge next to Ogami's portrait starts out empty- but it fills up pretty quickly. Each answer choice you make is usually attributed to one of three colors: Red (honest and/or hot-blooded), Blue (sociable and/or flirtatious), and Yellow (cautious and/or usin' the ol' brain).
Whichever answer you choose fills up a little bit of that gauge, regardless of how the heroine/character in question takes you answer. Sometimes, the gauge fills up in scenes where you DON'T make answer choices (for instance, the scene with Maria in the command room gives you a huge boost on Red, Blue, AND Yellow). It's virtually impossible to NOT fill the gauge up all the way.
The total amount of color you have in your gauge is calculated before the start of the battle, and you can generally see it in the pre-battle stats screen (which I'll remember to show this time around). The game calculates the predominant color in your gauge, and assigns Ogami one of four Captain categories: "Fire" (Red), "Wind" (Blue), "Mountain" (Yellow), and "Wood" (if all three colors are mixed too much- this is very common, at least for me).
In the last battle, Ogami ended up as 'Wood' because most of my answer choices were scattered all across the board (and due to his low rank, which climbs as you go through the game, his title was simple 'Wakaba'- 'Young Leaves'). More importantly, however, the Captain category determines how his Final Attack works. Because Ogami was "Wood", he got the Kaitou Ranma- it would've differed greatly had he been Fire, Wind, or Mountain. I'm pretty sure that Fire is an AOE- a miniature version of Sakura's Final Attack- but I haven't ever gotten any of the other ones.
Also, being a "Wood" captain might've given Ogami's corresponding Wood Strategy a bigger bonus or something. I'm not entirely sure myself yet. Trying to land a different Captain category hasn't exactly been on my highest list of priorities, as the RESULTS of the answers I choose take precedence over the TYPE of answer.
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