All right, continuing from my last post about Ranshima Monogatari 
Well okay, it wasn’t entirely unintentional. I did go out of my way to try and chat up both girls and guys every time I left the house. Actually I was aiming to hook Hiro up with Somarina, but since I didn’t use a FAQ I think I screwed up somewhere, and she ended up married to that toad of a duke. As expected Hiro was persona non grata at the castle for the rest of the game. Tch.
Luckily I’d been playing nice with Abi too, lending her money when she asked for it and treating her at the pub when I got the chance. She looks a bit too kiddy for me so I wasn’t really intending to marry her, but as time went on all the other girls dropped off one by one. She was the only one whose events I kept getting, so I kept being nice to her and before I knew it I was married to her! The ending states that we had twins and opened up a pub on the outskirts of town that makes us enough money to live on. And we lived happily ever after.
Milo and Chilia, I really don’t know how that happened. Most of their events dragged on so long I stopped reading halfway through. I can’t even tell when Chilia fell in love with him. She was all Hiro-Hiro-Hiro, then once I gave her permission to move away with Milo, she suddenly had feelings for him? I dungeddit. Anyway, the story goes that Milo’s not as bad a guy as he first appeared to be, and he only went 300,000 eve into debt because someone stole his money. Eventually he gets it back and puts it in a business that earns him 500,000, so I thought he would be okay. In the end, though, he and Chilia buy a farm together, have triplets (it must be something in the water) and the last time we hear from them they are 470,000 eve(!) in debt. Okay Hiro, time to back away slooowly.
So all in all it was a good second run. Restoring the city took a surprisingly small amount of time, only about two years of hard labor. I learned to manage my money and my tension a lot better in this game, so I only had to do actual work for a few weeks throughout the entire game. For tension I used the temporary skill that stops it from dropping entirely for two months. With a combination of good luck and goals that rewarded me with MP, I was able to keep my MP high enough to keep the skill on for much of the game. Whenever tension went up to 100, I let the skill lapse and allowed the tension to drop a bit, then put it back on again. Piece of cake.
Money I didn’t need that much of because fixing the town is free. Plus the better the town gets, the more money Hiro receives every season. Letting Chilia soak in the bath a bit only costs 70 eve a go, and I kept my house maintenance expenses low. I also got involved with research early and tried to produce “Hot” items as much as possible, selling almost all of the resulting goods right away. I almost never went on vacation with her, although on the two occasions I did a burglar broke in and stole some cash. It’s weird, ‘cos I went on vacation almost every season in the last game and never got robbed. Huh.
Lessee, wot else… Contests. I took part in a few. I could have made some good money if I had bothered to raise Chilia’s attractiveness and strength enough that she could take part in both the javelin throwing contest and the beauty pageant in spring. But I was doing quite well for myself, so I didn’t see the need. I was even able to buy her a few nice clothes and get her several different haircuts. She looked great!
Right now I feel I’ve taken the game as far as it can go, so I’ll give it a short break. But I do want to get Guana’s ending so I can see what she really looks like (if they don’t show her face I will sue), and I want Chilia to end up with Rui since she obviously likes him so much. At the same time I’d like to rescue Somarina from the clutches of the evil duke at least once. Guess I’m not quite so done after all. I’ll be back, eventually.
THIS GAME. …I played for a few days and got to the second year, I think, when Rui started going into hiding or something, decided that I simply couldn’t figure out the game system and gave up…
Yeah, you absolutely need a FAQ if you want to get any marriage endings apart from Ivy’s and Mirol’s. Or heck, any kind of good ending at all. It’s a lovely game though.
I played this game on NDS..
and yes we absolutely need a FAQ since the ending was so random..
Personally, this is a nice game with lovely arts,
lovely soundtracks and bgms.
But what makes me sad is the thing that there is no option for Hiro and Chilia end up being together.
Because in the end no matter how hard I tried,
she always ended up with Rui or Milo.
(If I’m not mistaken, there is another ending
where she ended up with someone other than those 2, someone with blonde hair..)
There might be an ending where they can be together, maybe in the True ending if there’s one. But TBH I rather like them having completely separate romantic lives for the most part. Somehow it’s less creepy that way.