Peregrine Took

Oh I should've said it wasn't in this account.

It pays to go back through the early scenes. Cora definitely identifies herself this time, but I can't remember seeing her name anywhere when I first entered The Harbour where the name 'Cora' now comes up.

Yes, I'd kept a screenshot of when she was called Jessie, but the name everywhere had been chenged to Tachibana when I went back and had a look. Evil bastards, eh... Quite! Like the sadistic sods who came up with the Juy Sea and the exorbitant demand for money to advance even a little through the quests in that world (early on at least). In one case there was a demand for cash (161k) to feed Eugenie's gluttonous face, but after only three more scenes, and they ask for another 161k! As well as this, if you're know-how this is a useless world in which to pick up the girls. Great if you're charm. I bet they had a real laugh at the probabilty that we'd be fuming in frustration. I reckon they asked, what is the best way to piss players off!? I was so glad to be shot of it and move on to Admittance of the Dead where I could actually upgrade my girls' affection and level myself and them up.

Oh, and Mary appears to be that very sexy Island girl who was guarding the door to the mermaids on Eugenie's ship. I may be wrong of course. Yeah, isn't it ironic. So many people wanted at least one of the mermaids. Would it be wrong to speculate that HH listened to us?

Yes! We finally get to know their names. Remember that plainish (but sassy, freckly and cute) girl in the king's harem... "Who cares about names, take off your pants handsome, we are counting on you!"? Well she is Pooky and I could understand now why she didn't want to disclose her name! And now we have the name of the suspicious mermaid - Cora, and the stuck-up guard - Victoria (she is definitely not amused!). We already knew Jennie's sister's name as Jessie in the beginning, but HH had changed her name to Tachibana, presumably her Kunoichi name from a Ninja background. I'm glad she's become available as she was cute and rather spunky. She hit on our hero with indecent haste if I recall so I hope her affection scenes are as interesting. If I get Cora, I'd be keen to know how our hero will manage sexual intercourse with her. Anyway, very early days yet, I know, but I've had no luck so far getting either Pooky or Nicole, but I did get Kelina and Leeditt in Epic Pachinko from single plays so I can't complain too loudly. I should be able to accumulate enough kobans by near the end of the event to try 10 plays. In my most advanced game I have only two of the trolls' girls to get so I rate my chances of either getting an exclusive Epic Pachinko girl or one of the event girlsin that game. I had Dark Lord's last girl (Kimie) drop for me while I was trying for Pooky so I rate my chances of getting her by the end of the event.

That's good info, thanx. I'll check out ELO-system. Otherwise, the scoring is unintelligible to me and I'm keen for answers. Hey, I've just noticed the new event, probably one of the calendar events. I now know the name of the third member of the king's harem. Do you remember: "Who cares about names, take off your pants handsome, we are counting on you." So, her name is Pooky. It somehow suits her. She may be a bit plain, but she sure is cute and sassy. While I was trying for her, Kimie dropped (not in this account though). She was the last of Dark Lord's regular girls to drop. If we get Nicole and Pooky, and have Kimie, we'll have all three of the king's harem girls. Just a bit of trivia.

It's patchy. I found that. I'm just coming out of a drought now having had Leeditt drop from Sylvanus.

I went back to battling Sylvanus to try to win the 2 remaining girls in his team. I resumed when he was on 56 and now, on 99, Leeditt just dropped. I have only Sylvia to collect from him now. I'm now at lvl 179. Leeditt's now my 50th girl in this account. I believe she dropped as expected and that the drop rate has been pretty consistent, although, oddly enough, I have yet to win any of Gruntt's girls in this account. Not counting Fairy, in Magic Forest Leeditt is my 22nd girl to drop since I got Queen Titania while I was in that world and battling Sylvanus regularly. Fairy dropped soon after Queen Titania. The big gap in battling Sylvanus was my focus on winning event girls and trying to win girls who were at my stage of advancement in the game (such as battling Bremen and Finalmecia until I cleaned them out). All in all I'm steadily picking them off. In this account I have three to win from Gruntt, one from Edwarda, one from Donatien and one from Sylvanus, then that will be it, except for events and any new worlds released. I'm not confident of success against Gruntt, however. I don't know why it is, but there always seems to be one troll that stubbornly holds out and, in this account, it's Gruntt.

I started to understand the game enough from about September last year to begin to get event girls on a regular basis (beginning with Justine and Teacher Deitra). Since Christmas of last year I haven't failed to get every event girl, except for the Sexy Calendar event when there were three event girls held by trolls we could get, but there were only seven days to collect them. I had to be content with two. My absolute best events to collect event girls were Winter Chill and Loving Moments (the last two 14 day events). In both I got every girl in every one of my games. Furthermore, I did all this without refilling combativity using kobans. I'd begun to save these exclusively for Epic Pachinko from the Sports Event on. This revival I found it harder to get Val Abraël to drop than Val Red Battler, but this was because most of my games are know-how and Val Abraël was less useful, so I spent my earlier efforts trying for Val Red Battler (not to mention she's so gorgeous!). However, when I switched to battling Edwarda, Val Abraël eventually dropped in all but two of my games. In my most advanced game (started June last year) I have yet to get either girl, however, so it's down to luck. In that game, if I were to regard getting event girls as the be all and end all I'd be simply unlucky, but I did get two regular troll girls while trying for the event girls!

Yeah, I found the same, different troll though. Because I had all three of Finalmecia's girls I went back to battle Bremen. I had only one of his girls (Marina) before the patch update and it took over a hundred battles to get the next one (Stephanie). I managed to get Cunegonde in Epic Pachinko before the patch. I found in two out of three of my games where I've been able to battle Bremen that he has been the most reluctant to give up a girl. Marina dropping first in this account was an aberration because she's otherwise been the hardest to get of any of Bremen's girls. So I was in the odd position of having got all Finalmecia's girls before I got Bremen's. It might have something to do with the fact that Plain of Rituals has been drawn out having not been completed and this gave me more of a chance to win all the girls off Finalmecia. If I analysed it I'd probably find she's been just as reluctant to give up her girls as other trolls.

Yes, I'm back in the game now with these changes. Previously I'd given up on the arena. Because I was able to win two more combativity points I was able to get Val Red Battler. She dropped in the very last battle of 20! I still feel the arcane and incomprehensible nature of scoring and mojo reductions for the arena annoying and I was unable to make sense of Kinkoid's explanation. I've been beaten by lucky sods who did me in with critical damage far more times than I've inflicted the same damage on them. It would be great to be able to opt to battle them again straight away and maybe I'd win next time. Also, I got an unbeatable charm opponent (with maxed out Abraël, Flight Attendant and maxed out Noemy on his team) three times in a row. Not only was his ego 20k more than mine, but so was his level (184 as opposed to 176 for me). How is such random allocation of opponent rankings even remotely fair? Plain of Rituals? Yes, I suspect we will get Lenaëlle in the next quest. I wonder why they made one more quest in this world than for others. I was pleasantly surprised that we got this new quest relatively quickly compared with the long wait for others. When we factor in the work needed to prepare new events (new, not revivals), patch updates and other changes that must've taken time to develop and implement, the result can only been seen as remarkable.

I had a tentative visit to the arena after giving up on it earlier and found a few new incentives to keep me playing. In the daily arena battles I can win surprises, including an extra 2 combativity points if I win 8 arena battles. This is welcome, but I have a question... If you are already at 20 combativity points (or maximum below that if your XP level is less than 50) if you win an extra 2 for winning 8 arena battles, does this add to the total (even if hidden until some of it is used) or is this reward basically unclaimable? Obviously it pays to play the arena when you are at combativity level 18 or less, or when you know you are not likely to win your 8th battle for the day in the round you are about to play. Sometimes we can become distracted and forget to check combativity level before playing. I've won a few surprise packages. All have been useless equipment items (Charm or hardcore when I'm know-how). I'm assuming the surprise reward for winning 16 daily battles would be worth somewhat more than winning 8 battles. The formula for winning or losing mojo is still rather arcane (I understand if I loss to charm opponents this will cost me more), but the rest is unfathomable. I would appreciate a post to explain in detail how the system works and how wins or losses are calculated. Kinkoid made an attempt earlier but it remains pretty arcane.

I had a tentative visit to the arena after giving up on it earlier and found a few new incentives to keep me playing. In the daily arena battles I can win surprises, including an extra 2 combativity points if I win 8 arena battles. This is welcome, but I have a question... If you are already at 20 combativity points (or maximum below that if your XP level is less than 50) if you win an extra 2 for winning 8 arena battles, does this add to the total (even if hidden until some of it is used) or is this reward basically inclaimable? Obviously it pays to play the arena when you are at combativity level 18 or less, or when you know you are not likely to win your 8th battle for the day in the round you are about to play. Sometimes we can become distracted and forget to check combativity level before playing. I've won a few surprise packages. All have been useless equipment items (Charm or hardcore when I'm know-how). I'm assuming the surprise reward for winning 16 daily battles would be worth somewhat more than winning 8 battles. The formula for winning or losing mojo is still rather arcane (I understand if I loss to charm opponents this will cost me more), but the rest is unfathomable. I would appreciate a post to explain in detail how the system works and how wins or losses are calculated. Kinkoid made an attempt earlier but it remains pretty arcane.

Yeah, life's a bitch. In one of my games where I'm on lvl 191 I have 53 girls. That's not outstanding compared with a lot of other people, but it's enough for me for the moment. It's a battle to upgrade the latest few... I'm always broke! I can only be thankful that I've got both event girls to drop in that game so I can get back to battling Finalmecia and earn more money and legendary gift items before Finalmecia is levelled up enough to beat me. I have to keep some money aside now, though, because the next quest for Plain of Rituals is underway and I've had to pay out twice so far to advance a third of the way through the quest, 'Chaaaarge!!' That's the only game where I have both event girls. In my other games there are two where I've yet to get either of them and there isn't much time left.

Good news on the next Plain of Rituals quest: Chaaaarge!! This was released without fanfare this time and was a very pleasant surprise, appearing sooner than expected considering the number of new events, webpage development and art and scriptwork required. I don't suppose Lenaëlle would become available, but I expect she will appear in the next one, the penultimate. There is one more quest in this world than in the previous ones.

I wouldn't have said so earlier, but I now tend to agree with Maquiaval. Leaving out event girl drops, once I finally managed to have the first drops take place in all of my six games (but two) I have had a girl drop every 2.5 rounds (that's 30 turns at battle). In two of the games I even had troll girls (Kimie and Arcana) drop before Val Red Battler. It's the same with Epic Pachinko. Out of seven single turns this event, while I got none of the event girls I had that lovely elf, Vashalanor, drop. On the face of it she seems rather interesting. I can't wait to see her affection scenes and updated profile images.

I've gone back and analysed my harem in the game illustrated above and from my most advanced game. In the game above (lvl 190) I have only 5 regular boss girls left to collect. Apart from Stephanie, all of them are from the first 3 bosses (Kimie from Dark Lord, Rumiko and Solveig from Ninja Spy and Miss Spook from Gruntt). Both event girls have dropped. In my most advanced game (lvl 191) I have only 2 regular boss girls to collect: Rumiko from Ninja Spy and Bonny from Edwarda, but I've yet to collect either of the event girls. In my third game (this profile) I'm on lvl 175 and I have 6 regular boss girls to collect plus one event girl (Val Abraël). They are: Miss Spook and Housemaid from Gruntt, Jeanne from Edwarda, Kelina from Donatien, and Leeditt and Sylvia from Sylvanus. Admittedly, four of these boss girls have been won in Epic Pachinko across all my games (Bonny, Regine, Pelagie and Cunegonde) when I was trying for exclusive or event girls. So, with a proper analysis prompted by this topic I have to concede that I haven't done too badly, especially in my most advanced game. However, it has been really interesting that this success has come with long periods of drought (not a single drop for weeks across all my games) followed by a golden run when I can even have two girls drop within one round or even consecutively. It has been this patchy success (and the fact that I have been playing since June last year) that has allowed me to grow my harem.

I certainly agree with these suggestions. I have another one and, to find out what I mean, read my post in the topic Hentai Heroes that was started by Jessie Chan. It is about broadening the dimension in the story scripts from pure sex, lust and screwing toward (dare I say it) love and caring - humanity! This was especially pertinent during the Lovely Moments event, but was an opportunity lost in my humble opinion.

This is for Jesse Chan since she started this topic. I'm hopeful Jessie, that you have the time to read this posting and I apologise in advance for its length. In it, you could infer I'm being negative when I'm only negative about one aspect of this game. Indeed, I remain enthusiastic for the game as a whole, but it would be too easy for people to infer that my criticisms are generally negative for the whole game structure. I'm not. I'm one of those odd guys (and some who know me would place emphasis on the word 'odd') who would describe himself as a feminist and who finds most R18 games as leading (in some impressionable guys) to an acute disrespect for women, their sexual rights and their femininity. What I suggest here is another way and it suggests some subtle social engineering of such guys to allow them to think more broadly about female sexuality. I'm back in business after ex-Cyclone Gita knocked out power in my city for 16 hours. It was short and not so sweet. Anyway, in an earlier post I made a criticism of some of the scripting for affection scenes, notably that for Loving Justine. Now, having said that, the artwork keeps going from strength to strength and is now so skillfully executed that sometimes it's possible to become so engrossed in the subjects that one can mistake them for real people. However, there is a real disconnect between the excellence of the artwork with its skillful illustration of human anatomy and muscle movement (expressed in sometimes quite subtle body language) and the script that accompanies it. Last event (Lovely Moments) was a golden opportunity to explore love, real and developing love, but instead we still had the cardboard cut-out character dimension for the girls' affection scenes. This opportunity was squandered with Justine and, by way of example, I urge members (and you Jessie) to read what I posted in a quote to someone else. This was my alternative affection scene scripts for Justine. She remained the same, mad, ultra-possessive demon she was when she first appeared in Back to School. There is a more basic scripting problem with how she ultimately appeared in Loving Moments and that is the unlikelihood that our hero would be so physically weak and so lacking in any guile that he would again allow himself to fall prey to her attentions. This simply doesn't ring true. The newest manifestation of Justine in images is that she is simply lovely (one of the loveliest girls in HH) and very sexy, but this wasn't explored at all in the scripts to suggest that there might be another dimension to her and for how she might react to genuine compliments. Psychologically, such an ultra-possessive and obsessive personality (sometimes manifest as borderline personality disorder - or BPD) is almost always highly vulnerable to a different kind of attention, honest and willingly given attention rather than forced, as I suggested in an earlier posting. I suggested that Justine could be opened out by postive attention to her and suggesting she try a different approach and in my scenario she was shocked to tears that she could actually be found desirable by the subject of all her obsession. I've advanced through two affection scenes with Val Red Battler (another absolute, drop-dead gorgeous beauty) and the scripts and scenes simply do not match this beauty or the demure and alluring look in her eyes or her gorgeous cleavage she initially was trying to minimise. Instead, the scripts are just the same nympho animalistic approach to love where sex and love are confused. Indeed, the term for sex in public is dogging and what an appropriate term this is! Sure, Val Red Battler is a revival and the drawings and scripts first appeared a year ago, but HH could evolve and really think about what Valentine's Day could mean for future events. We got the tiniest hint of this in the daily event mission scenes for Loving Moments (Heartbeat) when Bunny was upset and our hero gave her lots of love and attention without any sex. Initially surprised by this she responded accordingly as just about any woman who loves her man would. It suggested that Bunny is more than a hardcore nympho and that her heart can respond to genuine affection beyond succumbing to jealousy. It was sad for me that the opportunity Bunny offered wasn't explored further. Finally, I'm running six accounts in this game. I say this, not to brag or suggest I might be a little weird, but three of those accounts belong to the two females in this household. They gave me permission to take over their games when they became utterly and angrily bored with them (their only gripe is that they get all the notifications for my postings in their names in their email accounts. I told them they can unsubscribe). Indeed, I could imagine that there would be very few females who would remain interested in this game as it remains basically a male fantasy franchise and that's fine as far as it goes. I don't really have a problem with it, but the game could be even better and broader in appeal. If it were to be explored in the way I suggested then this might bring conventional heterosexual females on board. The women in this home shared the excitement I feel whenever a girl drops, but they jokingly told me they'd love to see some 'hot guys' drop. The rest of the game left them cold, however. Also, back then when they were still playing, the artwork was not as good as it is now and character expression was not as well developed. However, to develop a female perspective for this game would require an evolution in the artwork to explore female body language and male reponses to it (and not just the changing shape and size of his penis as she's sucking it, or, even worse, first appearing already erect, hard and insanely huge!).

The run continues. This time in this account. I remembered to do a screen capture this time. Why the obsession with Red Battler. (1) She's hot and (2) She's know-how.

I can't believe it!!!! In another account, as well as Val Red Battler, I had yet to pick up Arcana and Kimie from Dark Lord. Arcana just dropped!! Things aren't going quite right, but, as I said before, I can't complain.

You're so right! Best and most kissable lips in the business! Justine is pretty awsome too, but I was disappointed in the script for her affection scenes. She's still a cardboard cut-out obsessed/possessive character of old and I would've liked to see her needy vulnerability explored more by a hero who is supposedly braver and could stand up to her now. It was also a love event but I didn't see much evidence of any exploration of this with Justine (in contrast to the daily mission cameos with a mysteriously upset Bunny). Here's my suggestion for a script. The awakening of Justine... Hero confronts her and asks: "Let's try this a different way. I wanna find out more about you, not just that you're strong and can overpower me. You're pretty damn sexy and beautiful to look at, but I reckon you might have a heart to match? Will you let me find out?" A shocked Justine replies, a tear dribbling into her mouth: "You... you like me!? But nobody likes me!" Hero: "I think I could. See, I'm getting really hard all by myself just thinking about discovering the real you... And that look on your amazing face. It's weird I know but I could actually love you..." Justine: "Wh..what?..." They cuddle and he explores her lips gently with his own and she shivvers and tingles in anticipation as she tentatively strokes his cock. She kicks the ropes and handcuffs under the bed, hoping he might forget about what she had planned. That's three affection scenes right there.

In my oldest know-how game I was battling Dark Lord for Val Red Battler and got Kimie instead. Only Val Red Battler remains to get from him. It wasn't entirely what I was after, but I can't complain. In this game I would have been able to upgrade Val Red Battler much more quickly, but them's the breaks - literally.

Not sure I'd do that. I've been saving my kobans for Epic Pachinko and that's been very profitable to me. If I don't get girls within the 7 day period that's just my bad luck. Got my dream girl and that's probably enough for me. Any others are a bonus.

My dream girl!!! Just had Val Red Battler drop from Dark Lord. Went back from Donatien to try for her and she dropped after only 4 tries. My great roll continues.