What's the weirdest route you all have gotten?

I got one where we I got us all really into the space races.  I got... I think five of them by the end?  And one of them was longer-range and Lunetta and I ended up trying to wreck each other's ships around that Moon of Ascension.  And that must've triggered something, because then she kept plotting to get her and Charmie out there again.  Not sure what those ritual components were for... surely the programmers weren't really planning to have her ascend to become a god?  I thought of accusing her of that, but nobody believed it when I tried to hint at it, so I ended up busting her for stealing some of the components instead.

The fuck?? You should write up a guide to getting that route. By the way, anyone else think it's weird how much detail this game has? I thought it was from a small studio.

Huh, one time when I extorted/hacked a datadump from that Selvya AI, there were some notes on the Moon of Ascension.  Let's see... yeah, someone posted them here on the wiki.  Not really detailed, too many question marks, but makes me wonder whether the programmers had something more than hints about it...

@yellow-coward Yeah!  Loev the detaul!  They must'fe been worink on ti 4 a while!

I'm going to send some of the cutscenes with equations to a friend of mine who's a physicist. I wouldn't be shocked if they're not just random gibberish. It seems like nothing in the game is random gibberish.

@fauntasee Thanks! Maybe they'll add more in later updates, or maybe there's a hidden route none of us have found yet;)

Yeah, they love their setting!  Checked out some of the types-of-star references from the interstellar trade cutscene, and yeah, it's all real.

I wish!  All real except the magic!

It's neat how you can just walk up to any character and get a detailed backstory (though some of it is gated on your reputation points), but they don't force it down your throat. Also, all the course material is fleshed out?? You can't read every book in the library but every class textbook is actually written.

The game is already like 40gb.. I thought it was poor optimization but i think it's the sheer level of detail. 

@yellow-coward - Huh, every class?  Might try to learn stats that way😆!  Or do they not let you take all of them?

Oh, we're talking about Roses of Villarosa!

I don't do otome games, but I was watching Villarosa over my girlfriend's shoulder this last week, and it's not bad!  Might even do it myself sometime! (Yeah, even without waiting for a genderflipping mod.)

Biggest thing is, I respect how they made a serious attempt at a utopian setting, and they take it seriously.  No hints at things falling apart here.  (Girlfriend nudges me to add, "unless you tear them down yourself."  Haven't seen that route yet - any of you have?)

They have to make some compromises to let the villainess be villainous, but it's not just a spiel about giving people room to achieve things - it really feels like it's real and Villarosa would catch things if they go too far.  But the game draws you in to where the "not yet too far" actually matters!

@elephantasm The only way I've found to switch classes is by taking the high kindness rep ruthless route and following the instructions here (I apologize for the writhing maggot video, but you can ignore it). But you can read from Marius's bookshelf if you want bonus textbooks, and IIRC he's in stats. If you try to learn statistics from an otome game please let us know how it goes!

king-art-os: A lot of it leans on divine and magical solutions for problems, but I think the herb they have for birth control is literally just sylphium, an IRL plant that was overharvested to extinction.

The magic stuff is less elegant but at least they think through the implications. Like the divinely-mandated third places leading to a higher trust society. They do rely a lot on divine aid though, which is ominous with the hints you get that the Gods want to retire...

Also, cool that no one gets sick under normal circumstances, and old age is much less crippling than in reality. Not many symptoms of decline, but you can do a ritual to learn how much longer you have left.

And if you do the ritual, it's counting down to the end of the game, right?

[padme-stare.jpg] Right?

No, really, I tried it once and it failed and threw an infinity.  Really.  One and only hole I've seen in the game.  Anyone else tried it?  I was on the "standard" nice non-ruthless route, fwiw.

sure it wasn't an 8, oriented weirdly?

Hah, now I'm wishing I'd logged off after eight hours or something just to make it work!

@yellow-coward, might try that!  Every girl in Villarosa knows reading the guy's textbooks is a fast way to his heart! 😆

Itt'd work on charmie. Maybe he's the most autistic (pos) worldbuilder's self-insert.

Told you, you're falling in love with the setting.

@fiction-the-science, wjat was that you ssid abut Charmie in that othwr thread?

My physicist friend has been totally nerdsniped by the equations I sent. Apparently it's quantum relativity stuff but the spacetime curvature is wrong, and he keeps poking at it trying to see why complex matter shouldn't exist but it continues to hold together. Another victim of the setting's wiles I guess, but now I'm guessing which reclusive millionaire hired a think tank of scientists for the game.

Huh, the spacetime curvature is wrong?  Wrong in a way that might have anything to do with hyperspace and hyperspace portals?  Or maybe that song from that fun festival about the future (what's the name?) where you sing about how the universe will keep growing forever?

! I forgot about that. I'm going to compile a list of any cutscenes that might have anything to do with spacetime curvature and send them over.

Has anyone made ebooks of the textbooks yet? I don't want to screenshot each page and wait through the slightly-too-slow page turning animation.

Hmm... the wiki's got two of the textbooks...

Huh, what's that?  They say you can actually read some pages of that one book in the back of that classroom too, and it's actually different between some of the routes?

Oh yeah routes!  Anyone got any other hidden bits that differ?  Or even a list of all those different routes?  I wantto play them all!