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A modest anti-grind boost that should not overwhelm the tactical challenge of the first route.
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A clean sixth-role addition for Cai because Brawling adds something the early core party does not already emphasize.
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Niraga Mine settled an argument I had been having with myself all week: I want to search every inch of these places, and I do not want to play the fights inside them. Both halves are written down now.
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Position measured · lengths estimated
3–4%through the game I plan to play
No chapter list published yet that I have found, and I am seven days into the first route. The bands are wide on purpose: a Part I route in a game built like this one usually runs somewhere between ten and fifteen chapters, and I would rather show that whole range than pick the middle of it and call it knowledge.
Below: everything else I would otherwise have to reconstruct from memory — what I decided, what I refuse to re-decide, and what I am deliberately leaving open.
Fortune's Weave — settled, with the reasoning attached so I do not have to rebuild it.
Focus Cai on Spear + Rider rather than deliberately developing Sword.
Why
His early class direction and mounted role make those proficiencies more useful for this save, and a free weapon is not the same thing as a build recommendation.
I would change my mind if
Replaces Read the Wooden Sword as build advice. The old thinking is kept, not deleted.
Finish each protagonist's Part I completely before starting the next one, instead of switching every few chapters.
Why
Living with one army long enough to understand it beats holding four half-remembered armies at once, and the carryover progression makes each later route easier than the one before it.
I would change my mind if
Play Part I in the order Cai → Leda → Dietrich → Theodora.
Why
Cai teaches the rulebook, Leda broadens the archetypes, Dietrich is where the tactical game should get demanding, and Theodora adds Authority and Battalions last — right before the shared War structure.
I would change my mind if
Deliberately optimize the Boon progression. Do not use turn-by-turn battle guides.
Why
Knowing the efficient Boon order removes repetition without removing the tactical decisions, which are the part of the game I actually want to play.
Recruit characters who add a role the current team does not have, and leave the rest for a later run.
Why
The first run gets to be an army instead of a collection checklist, and replay exists for the rest.
Treat normal EXP as a difficulty/grind throttle I turn up and down, and treat Class EXP and the proficiencies my real teams use as things to accelerate aggressively.
Why
Raw levels can erase the tactical game. Class and proficiency growth open more of the game instead of flattening it.
I would change my mind if
Default to a preemptive strike, then Auto Battle or Skip to Conclusion, for ordinary Clash encounters. Take manual control only when the automatic result loses, the enemies are above my level, a specific EXP or MVP outcome matters, or the fight is actually doing something.
Why
I have already spent a few hundred hours on this exact shape of combat in squad-collection games, and I know how it ends: I learn the rotations, the rotations stop being decisions, and I turn the speed up. Reaching that point on my own inside Fortune's Weave is not a reason to stop playing Fortune's Weave — it is a reason to stop hand-playing the part that already bores me and keep the attention for the maps.
I would change my mind if
Walk every reachable path, break the breakables, open every chest against the counter, take the materials, and find the rear exit when the Uncharted marker says there is one.
Why
Automating the combat is not the same as losing interest in the place. The exploring is the part I enjoy, and dungeons keep paying out long after the fights stop being interesting — materials now, Soulstones and the Keys of the Diadem much later.
I would change my mind if
Re-walk Dagsion when the chapter or story state changes: collect the refreshed pickup orbs, talk to marked and unfamiliar people, check the optional-scene markers. Leave the unmarked regulars alone.
Why
The orbs refresh on a new chapter, not on every move from morning to afternoon, and an NPC without a marker says the same line he said last time. I tested that enough times to stop feeling obliged.
I would change my mind if
Play one Part II War route normally — Theodora's, in this ordering — and then use the game's skip option for the other armies by default.
Why
Part II is much more shared than Part I. Repeating it for all four armies would be completion anxiety, not enjoyment.
I would change my mind if
The loops this site exists to stop. If one of these shows up in my head again, the answer is already here.
Answered — stop re-opening it
No. Cai stays Spear + Rider; the sword is situational equipment.
Availability is not priority. The class direction is what matters.
Answered — stop re-opening it
No. Recruit the people who add a missing role.
Completion can happen on a later run; the first run is for learning.
Answered — stop re-opening it
Yes. Replay is the completion mechanism, not a punishment.
The first Cai run does not have to be the definitive Cai run.
Answered — stop re-opening it
The tactical grid maps. Clashes are the ones I automate.
Positioning, ranges, terrain and roles are what I came for — the same thing I liked about Advance Wars. The small turn-based fights are a second system I have already played out elsewhere.
Answered — stop re-opening it
Not the story that matters. The scenes sit around the encounter, not inside it.
Ordinary dungeon groups carry no plot, and the walkthroughs recommend skipping them on Standard. Event Clashes get watched in and out; I just do not have to execute the turns. I have no proof that nothing at all is lost, so an Event Clash I am curious about gets Auto Battle at speed rather than an instant skip.
Answered — stop re-opening it
No. Expect more of them, not different ones.
Reviewers who played the whole game reached for Auto Battle for the same reason I did, and one of them said outright that the dungeon fights do not develop. Waiting for a chapter that fixes it is a plan with no evidence behind it.
Answered — stop re-opening it
Once per chapter.
Not per time-of-day. That one fact is the difference between exploring Dagsion and patrolling it.
Answered — stop re-opening it
No. Boons are not a permanently exclusive tree; all of them can be unlocked.
That turns the question from "what am I sacrificing forever" into "what makes the game better soonest", which is a much easier question.
Interesting future decisions, kept separate from problems that are blocking play. Nothing here needs solving tonight.
Kept on purpose. The change of mind is often more useful than the conclusion.
Treat the free Wooden Sword as a hint that Cai is meant to develop Sword.
Why
I was reading the equipment screen the way I would read a normal RPG: the game handed me a weapon, so I assumed it was pointing somewhere.
Replaced by Cai's first-run build.
Pokopia — settled, with the reasoning attached so I do not have to rebuild it.
I am not treating the minimum story requirement as the point where an area is automatically finished. I like raising the Environment Level high and improving the place until it feels genuinely restored before I move on.
Why
The rebuilding itself is the part of Pokopia I enjoy. Withered Wasteland became more satisfying as the Pokémon were happier and the area felt less like a checklist and more like a place I had built.
I would change my mind if
Organize my Pokopia towns around custom housing, natural-looking habitats, useful districts, and efficient use of space instead of dropping buildings wherever they happen to fit.
Why
I enjoy the town more when it feels deliberately designed and when the Pokémon's homes and habitats make visual and practical sense together.
I would change my mind if
The loops this site exists to stop. If one of these shows up in my head again, the answer is already here.
Nothing stored yet.
Interesting future decisions, kept separate from problems that are blocking play. Nothing here needs solving tonight.
Splatoon Raiders — settled, with the reasoning attached so I do not have to rebuild it.
Nothing settled yet for this game.
The loops this site exists to stop. If one of these shows up in my head again, the answer is already here.
Nothing stored yet.
Interesting future decisions, kept separate from problems that are blocking play. Nothing here needs solving tonight.
Star Fox — settled, with the reasoning attached so I do not have to rebuild it.
Treat Star Fox as an always-in-rotation game with Stuart rather than a backlog title that needs to be completed once and put away.
Why
Alternate routes, repeat runs, scores, and familiar missions are part of what makes it valuable for us. The repeatability is the feature.
The loops this site exists to stop. If one of these shows up in my head again, the answer is already here.
Answered — stop re-opening it
No. It is one of the games Stuart and I can keep returning to indefinitely.
The replay loop and route variation fit how we already enjoy it together.
Interesting future decisions, kept separate from problems that are blocking play. Nothing here needs solving tonight.
No open questions recorded.
None of this page is written in code. When a session ends I edit two YAML fields — where I am and what I am doing next — and if something got settled, one more record in the decision log. Everything above re-renders from those files.