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Monark / Videogame	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Monark is a tactical JRPG developed by Lancarse Studios and published by FuRyu and NIS America. The game released on October 14th, 2021 in Japan and on February 22nd, 2022 in the West for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Nintendo Switch and Steam. A free demo of the game was released on January 25, 2022, which consists of the entire first chapter of the game.A bizarre series of paranormal events begin to occur in Shin Mikado Academy. Worse still, the school has been cut-off from the outside world, trapped within a mysterious fog driving the student body insane. The protagonist, who awakens inside the school with no memories, is tasked with solving the anomalies within the school as the Vice-President of the "True Student Council" after awakening to his Ego and "Authority of Vanity" upon encountering the demon Vanitas.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Notably, the game garnered immediate interest from fans as Suzuki Kazunari and Masuko Tsukasa, the scenerist of Megami Tensei and Megami Tensei II, Shin Megami Tensei and Shin Megami Tensei II and the composer of numerous 80s Namco titles (among which was Digital Devil Story Megami Tensei) respectively are part of the game's development. The developers state that the game was primarily inspired by Shin Megami Tensei if..., which similarly led to to the creation of its Spiritual Successor Persona. The artwork of the game is done by So-bin, who is known for his illustrations for the Overlord light novel series.Trailers: Announcement Trailer, Allies Trailer, Adversaries Trailer, Demo Trailer, Launch TrailerJapanese Trailers: PV01 PV02
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Monark / Videogame / int_1527d90d	comment	Want to start with a Legion of a specific Authority and many points in the other Authorities, to make the Early Game Hell easier with some useful buffs and weapon types, like ranged attacks? Good luck figuring out how the answers to the 15 question psych test are weighted and what series of answers for the "psych tests" will get you the results you want!
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Monark / Videogame / int_16972b3c	type	Peninsula of Power Leveling
Monark / Videogame / int_16972b3c	comment	Peninsula of Power Leveling: The "Fertile Ground" series of optional battlefields offer predictably leveled opponents and extremely generous Spirit bonuses upon clearing, which makes leveling up your characters incredibly easy. If you play on casual mode and abuse certain skills and synergies, you can even take on opponents 10-20 levels higher than your party and reap the rewards of blazing up to the level cap.
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Monark / Videogame / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Monark / Videogame / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: One aspect of Kurama's Biokinesis isn't just the control of a person's bodily functions, but also their mind. He uses his Authority to turn the students under his control into mindless thrall, all in order to keep the peace. He tries to use it on the Vice-President, but it doesn't stick due to the latter's Authority of Vanity.
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Monark / Videogame / int_2afb1a9	type	Limit Break
Monark / Videogame / int_2afb1a9	comment	Limit Break: "Enlightenment" gives characters a massive stat boosts and zero skill cost, making them extraordinarily powerful and useful in a pinch. Achieving this requires you to keep careful management of your Resolve and Madness gauges and maxing both out.
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Monark / Videogame / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Monark / Videogame / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Those of the Sloth Authority tend to be highly intelligent, analytical, and have an impeccable sense of strategy... which they use to defeat their opponents in the fastest way possible with the least amount of moves, because they don't want to spend any more energy or time than strictly necessary. In-game, this is represented by their having high critical and evasion chance.
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Monark / Videogame / int_37f0b1bb	type	Absurdly Low Level Cap
Monark / Videogame / int_37f0b1bb	comment	Absurdly Low Level Cap: The demo caps you at Level 20. Even if you have enough SPIRIT to gain a new Skill or level one up, the demo won't allow you to go any further.
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Monark / Videogame / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Monark / Videogame / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Status Resistance Skills. Aside from the stat boost and the level up it gives you, most status effects tend to be minor inconveniences and are easy to heal up using one character, and even easier with the Defer mechanic. But, once you start using Area Resonance and sharing stats and effects with your whole team, you'll be glad to never experience one character being Charmed and your whole team suddenly violently turning on each other, starting a downhill slide that will both tank your score and likely lose you the encounter.
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Monark / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Monark / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: "Dark Abundance" and "Unhinged Darkness" end this way. Shinya and Nozomi's routes end with most of the students making it out alive and no worse for wear, but both are left traumatized by the Vice-President's death and their inability to save him. It's worse for Shinya since his Act 3 route starts with Yoru killing Sora and Yugo, leaving him an orphan.
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Monark / Videogame / int_4577bd49	type	Gameplay Grading
Monark / Videogame / int_4577bd49	comment	Gameplay Grading: Combat encounters are graded, with S being the highest. Aside from the bragging rewards and achievements, having a higher grade will award you with more Spirit, currency for upgrading your characters and buying consumable items. Players can increase their score by clearing an encounter at or below a par number of turns, causing critical hits and follow-up attacks, Resonating with allies, and avoiding getting your characters KO'd. Additionally, the Vice-President's Ego stats are increased by defeating Daemons with the corresponding sins.
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Monark / Videogame / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Monark / Videogame / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: The game ends with the Vice-President leaving Shin Mikado academy with Chiyo, presumably to fulfill their promise and visit some cafés. As they leave, a phone lying on the ground starts ringing...
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Monark / Videogame / int_48c99edc	type	Cast from Sanity
Monark / Videogame / int_48c99edc	comment	Cast from Sanity: Authorities (magic spells) oftentimes raise your character's Madness, putting them at risk of going into a Superpowered Evil Side and attacking friend and foe alike indiscriminately.
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Monark / Videogame / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Monark / Videogame / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The TSC Pactbearer routes do not end happily. While Sora is defeated, her breakdown causes her to either absorb or kill the students in Shin Mikado, leaving hardly anyone left in her wake. "Birth of a New World" is easily the most gut-wrenching, the Vice-President ends up Taking the Bullet for her after they've defeated Sora, and he disappears before Kokoro can finish giving him an Anguished Declaration of Love. Worse still, Yoru is still out there and is free to do what she wishes now that the Barrier is gone.
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Monark / Videogame / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Monark / Videogame / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Near the end of Act 2, Sora's discussion with the Vice-President and their chosen partner reveals a rather curious bit about the Vice-President.
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Monark / Videogame / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Monark / Videogame / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In Act 2, the Vice-President and his chosen partner search the basements of Shin Mikado, looking for Sora/Yoru's Mist and Ideals, only to discover a familiar face lying on the ground. It's the Vice-President himself. The confrontation with Yoru/Sora expands on this revelation: the Vice-President is a "Vanity project" by Yoru, i.e. an Artificial Human.
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Monark / Videogame / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
Monark / Videogame / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: The game offers up choices from time to time, where you have to select one to proceed. However, oftentimes, there will only be 1 choice as doing anything else would prevent you from proceeding in the game, from an in-universe standpoint, or three different opportunities to say "No".
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Monark / Videogame / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Monark / Videogame / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: The supernatural forces in the game are known as Daemons, which are divided into three classes. The lowliest Daemons are known as Legions and are otherwise foot soldiers. Above them are the Nobles, and higher still are the Monarks, who all preside over the Seven Deadly Sins. One thing all Daemons share in common is that they subsist off the Ego and Desire of humans by dragging them into the Otherworld.
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Monark / Videogame / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Monark / Videogame / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: Arts (physical attacks) are cast from your HP.
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Monark / Videogame / int_55e5b37c	type	Bragging Rights Reward
Monark / Videogame / int_55e5b37c	comment	Bragging Rights Reward: Passing the Brutal Bonus Level gives you one of four possible rewards, two of which probably won't matter all that much as by this point you're in the post-game. Said rewards are either an absurd amount of SPIRIT or raising your Ego values to the highest limit. Not only does the Brutal Bonus Level require the best possible equipment and every character at Max Level to have so much as a chance at beating, but your Ego values will already be close to max after the tons of hours you no doubt spent grinding just to beat the level in the first place.
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Monark / Videogame / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Monark / Videogame / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Certain characters' profiles are partially censored until you get their Alter Ego, which reveals the censored bits. The sole exception to this is Reiko Inze from the first-year building, who's profile is filled with nonsensical gibberish that only seems to expand when you find her Alter Ego. That might have to do with the fact that she's actually dead, as her name is inscribed on the Memorial Stone in the Memorial Garden near the Old Dormitories.
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Monark / Videogame / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Monark / Videogame / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: Thanks to the Vice-President having no Canon Name, players can name him however they want, which confuses Nozomi since he and Chiyo have different family names. She still says this even if players have the player's family name be the same as Chiyo's.
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Monark / Videogame / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Monark / Videogame / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: When you accumulate Madness, your UI will start to glitch out, though the severity depends on how high your MAD gauge is.
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Monark / Videogame / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Monark / Videogame / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: According to Ryotaro, "Shin Mikado" means "Divine Gate". This, tied with "Jingu" meaning "shrine", foreshadows the existence of the Gate and the Outer God who resides behind it.
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Monark / Videogame / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Monark / Videogame / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Especially prominent in combat, the player characters and friendly minions are all White while all enemies and hostile forces are Black. Their combat armor also resembles chess pieces, with the Vice-President being based off the King and Nozomi being based off the Knight, for example.
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Monark / Videogame / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Monark / Videogame / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: Want to start with a Legion of a specific Authority and many points in the other Authorities, to make the Early Game Hell easier with some useful buffs and weapon types, like ranged attacks? Good luck figuring out how the answers to the 15 question psych test are weighted and what series of answers for the "psych tests" will get you the results you want! Want to skip the grind of defeating specific types of enemies to raise your Desires through the one-time use psych tests handed out by NPC? Hope you're familiar with the original versions or have someone who recorded what each answer will raise. Any puzzle that involves logging into a computer. Hope you have some recording instrument handy, to remember the long, numerical strings of student IDs, then type the passwords exactly as they are supposed to be written. Some puzzles have incredibly obtuse clues, requiring the player to either consult a guide or start running around the campus, using memory and brute force to try and figure out the answer. The Memorial Garden's memorial puzzle stands out, as you have to backtrack to a previous era, find a computer, and enter the right username and password if you even realize that's what you're supposed to do in the first place. Some phone numbers and puzzles need real-world and academic knowledge, though thankfully that can be easily resolved with a Google search. For example, the puzzle for the 2nd Year Building, Rooftop, involves figuring out where the portal is using portraits of famous classical music composers, your hint being who composed what music. Another is the number for Fertile Ground III, which is one of the sets of the value of Pi, as found in the Mathematics Club Room. Want to challenge the Final Boss again so you can revive Kakeru? Get ready to start dialing random Abyss numbers, because the only way you're getting the Signs needed to reach the Brutal Bonus Level is by battling and winning Abyss battles. While this is already a challenge as you're fighting enemies at max Level, there's also the fact that the Abyss battles change depending on the last digit you input, and even if you win, there's no real guarantee you'll get the phone number need. You also can't brute force your way to challenging the Final Boss again by looking at somebody else's walkthrough because the Sign you get is unique to your playthrough.
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Monark / Videogame / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Monark / Videogame / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Cruel, irrational world" is stated by numerous characters several times, often used to justify their actions or their actions being in defiance regarding the world.
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Monark / Videogame / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Monark / Videogame / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: At the rooftop of the High School Building, you're unable to reach the 3rd and the last Ideal needed to dispel the Mist because a student is insistent on keeping the access door shut from the outside, while you're surrounded by Unsettled professors and students both that are desperate to "graduate". The solution for this puzzle is to call the student holding the door shut about his envy at not being able to graduate. He relents and lets the group proceed. You later learn why he was so hellbent on preventing them graduate as you witness his classmates and professor jumping off the roof as part of the "ceremony".
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Monark / Videogame / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Monark / Videogame / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Kokoro is off-handedly mentioned to be no longer a problem during "Flagbearer of Faith". You learn in other routes that Sora convinced her to seal herself off in the Otherworld, thus removing her influence and Mist from the academy at the cost of forever being isolated. In Shinya and Ryotaro's routes, Nozomi is never mentioned and is implied to have sequestered herself inside the Student Council room, no doubt because of her feelings of worthlessness and the Wham Episode that was the Pactbearer of Greed arc and Chiyo's death in "Intermission: Dusk".
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Monark / Videogame / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Monark / Videogame / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The Pactbearer of Wrath arc involves the titular Pactbearer being the victim of a vicious bullying campaign who made a pact with a Monark to get revenge. As you learn more about Subaru and his circumstances, the party discovers someone tried to report the bullying to a teacher, but Subaru denied he was ever being bullied in the first place and got angry when he found out who reported it to the teacher. This is actually something that occurs in real life as well and is especially prominent in a hostile work environment. Shinya's incredible drive to "prove" himself worthy of love, his extreme attachment to his adoptive parents, and acerbic, snarky personality are all common behaviors of a child abuse survivor. Shinya even tries to justify the traumatic emotional, physical, and psychological abuse that his birth parents heaped on him as their still "loving" him and having had a reason to torture and hurt him, until the Vice-President points out it was just abuse, and Shinya can no longer reconcile the cognitive dissonance and breaks down.
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Monark / Videogame / int_8b3ad439	type	Fog of Doom
Monark / Videogame / int_8b3ad439	comment	Fog of Doom: The Mist, which appeared at the same time the barrier entrapped Shin Mikado Academy and separated it from the rest of the world. No one knows where it came from or what's causing it, but just being in the mist causes people to go crazy and become Unsettled. Generally, any area with Mist is connected to the Otherworld, which then leads to you getting a phone call that will drag you into the Otherworld.
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Monark / Videogame / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Monark / Videogame / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Shin Mikado turns out to be in a repeating time loop, starting just after the barrier went up and usually ending once the Pactbearers have either destroyed themselves or wreaked too much havoc, thanks to the Pactbearer of Greed and their Time Master powers. Yoru alludes to them having been repeating these same few days for a long series of loops, and another character implies this is happened over seventy times. Unintentionally, it also reverses much of the chaos and murder of the first four Pactbearers did and leaves them and their victims in much better states. The time loops also continue four more times due to Kakeru using his last Ideal to rewind time so to give the Vice-President the time he needs to bring out the Authority of Vanity's true potential.
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Monark / Videogame / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Monark / Videogame / int_8e20979	comment	In Shinya and Ryotaro's routes, Nozomi is never mentioned and is implied to have sequestered herself inside the Student Council room, no doubt because of her feelings of worthlessness and the Wham Episode that was the Pactbearer of Greed arc and Chiyo's death in "Intermission: Dusk".
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Monark / Videogame / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
Monark / Videogame / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: The main antagonists of the game are the seven Daemons known as the Monarks, each of whom are in a pact with someone in Shin Mikado and bestow upon them an Authority correlating to one of the seven sins. The Vice-President's sin, Vanity, is noted by Sora to be an aberrant, although it is associated with the deadly sin of Pride.
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Monark / Videogame / int_ad22dd72	type	Elaborate University High
Monark / Videogame / int_ad22dd72	comment	Elaborate University High: Shin Mikado is a very rich, prestigious academic institution, with no less than 3 multi-floor buildings for the 3 years of Japanese high school, a massive club building and sports facilities for extra-curricular activities, a library with the largest collection of books in the country, a massive memorial garden with a now-defunct dormitory that used to be used for students outside of the city, and middle school facilities, though the last one is never explored in the game. Documents about the academy says that the school relies on generous support and donations from its alumni, among which are countless powerful businessmen and politicians. It's also an Academy of Adventure, albeit with a sinister twist: If any student is discovered as having a powerful Ego with knowledge of the Otherworld, they'll be potentially murdered to prevent them from becoming a Pactbearer. Those that do are killed on the spot.
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Monark / Videogame / int_ad4a45be	comment	Want to challenge the Final Boss again so you can revive Kakeru? Get ready to start dialing random Abyss numbers, because the only way you're getting the Signs needed to reach the Brutal Bonus Level is by battling and winning Abyss battles. While this is already a challenge as you're fighting enemies at max Level, there's also the fact that the Abyss battles change depending on the last digit you input, and even if you win, there's no real guarantee you'll get the phone number need. You also can't brute force your way to challenging the Final Boss again by looking at somebody else's walkthrough because the Sign you get is unique to your playthrough.
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Monark / Videogame / int_b351b856	type	Sanity Meter
Monark / Videogame / int_b351b856	comment	Sanity Meter: The Madness gauge. Using certain skills increases the gauge and boosts your abilities, but if it hits max, the characters will go berserk and cannot be controlled. The exception would be reaching both 100% Resolve and Madness at the same time will give you access to "Enlightenment", giving you the stat boosts of Madness and Resolve and the zero skill costs at no loss of control. Good luck managing them both and keeping one from spilling over prematurely, though!
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Monark / Videogame / int_b68757d4	type	Everyone Is a Super
Monark / Videogame / int_b68757d4	comment	Everyone is a Super: Downplayed. According to Sora, everyone in Shin Mikado possesses a powerful Ego and therefore has the potential of making a pact with a Monark. This is also why the Jingu family is in charge of the academy, so they can eliminate anyone who does make a pact. It's also noted by Cromwell that most adolescents and youths have strong Egos, meaning seven times out of ten, a teen will become a Pactbearer. Sure enough, with the exception of Kakeru, Yugo, and Hayate, every other Pactbearer in the academy is a teenager.
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Monark / Videogame / int_c146acf4	comment	Character Class: Legions from a specific Authority trend towards certain weapons, fighting styles, and status effects. For some examples: Pride Legions favor pole weapons and specialize in Poison, Healing, and Sleep. They make great all-around frontline fighters, capable of taking on multiple enemies at once and supporting allies, but lack burst damage, relying on others to pick up the slack. Sloth Legions, ironically, are incredibly evasive and have high critical rates. Presumably, this is because they want to do the least amount of work possible in combat, emphasized by their favoring ranged weapons. Now they don't have to walk right up to their opponents to fight and with any luck, they'll walk into range themselves. Lust Legions favor ranged weapons, the Charm effect that turns enemies against their allies, and Fire-based projectile attacks and AoE spells—"burning passion", if you will.
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Monark / Videogame / int_c3f6e68	type	Dem Bones
Monark / Videogame / int_c3f6e68	comment	Dem Bones: Daemons and Fiends, the respective enemy and allied NPCs in the game, are skeletal-like monsters. Fittingly they are color-coded, with Daemons being black and Fiends white.
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Monark / Videogame / int_c45beb12	type	Academy of Adventure
Monark / Videogame / int_c45beb12	comment	Academy of Adventure: Albeit not by choice, as the school was cut off from the outside world and is surrounded by the Mist that drives the students mad. Certain routes, however, reveal that Shin Mikado accepted students who had the highest potential of becoming Pactbearers and eliminating those that do succeed in making a pact.
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Monark / Videogame / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Monark / Videogame / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: When you reach the second floor, you'll come across a girl talking to a storage locker like it's her best friend. Once you manage to get the girl to leave, Nozomi notices there's a disgusting smell coming from it. You can't see what's inside the locker, and once you clear the Mist on the second floor, the locker is gone. It's worth noting that there were memos scattered around the floor conveying a conversation between a pair of girls, one of whom refuses to let go of her friend's hand and the latter is dying of dehydration. Make of that what you will.
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Monark / Videogame / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Monark / Videogame / int_d24ed873	comment	Developers' Foresight: Since Act 1's Pactbearers can be tackled in any order, the difficulty will scale in accordance to whatever order you face them. The first Pactbearer you fight after Kurama will be the weakest while the last one you need to deal with will be significantly higher than if you went after them first. This also applies in Acts 2 and 3, outside of the "Deepest Depths" Chapter.
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Monark / Videogame / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
Monark / Videogame / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: The Unsettled are students who have stayed in the Mist for varying periods of time. Exactly how insane they've been driven vary, but to give you an example of how seriously it fucked up the students, a teacher and a group of students jump off the roof as part of their "graduation ceremony".
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Monark / Videogame / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Monark / Videogame / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: Though the best solution would have been for the game to be less grindy from the ground up, the developers did put in the Fertile Ground series of optional battlegrounds, which provide predictably leveled and powered enemies and have generous Spirit bonuses upon clearing it. After Intermission: Dusk, you need to convince one of the four former members of the TSC to ally with you. You have to speak to them and choosing a wrong answer that disappoints or angers them will reset the dialog. However, the game puts check marks on what options have worked in the past and there's only a 50-50 chance you'll get it wrong, just blindly picking. If you have a new Legion starting from level 1 or don't want to think too hard about picking and choosing the right skills, the game has an Auto-Spend system that will invest in the recommended track of skills and get your characters up to speed at a fraction of the time. If you're unhappy with how you invested in a character's skills, you can refund most of the spent Spirit to be spent again or on another character you want to invest in more. In most puzzles, once you discover enough clues, the right answer will oftentimes appear as a 3rd option in what used to just be 2 options.
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Monark / Videogame / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: The Mist causes everyone in it to go insane. In terms of gameplay, your MAD gauge rises while you are in the Mist. Hitting 100% lands you back in the infirmary outside of battle, but in battle, the characters enter a superpowered state and go berserk, not unlike the Berserk status effect in Shadow Hearts.
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Monark / Videogame / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Monark / Videogame / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The Daemons the TSC come across appear as menacing dark-colored skeletons wielding an assortment of wicked-looking weaponry. The Pactbearers themselves are adorned in jet-black Imagigear, contrasting with the Vice-President and the TSC's white-colored Imagigear.
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Monark / Videogame / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: On the roof of the 1st Year Building, one of the Unsettled students will not let you pass to the boss unless you say "Password". After deciphering the cryptic, science-themed clues with Kokoro's help, then cracking the cryptogram, the answer is literally "Password".
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Monark / Videogame / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Monark / Videogame / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: And holy shit do you have to work for it. The entire second act of the game involves the Vice-President dying in each of the TSC members' routes, and in two of them, almost the entire student body and faculty are killed in the wake of Sora's rampage. It's only thanks to Kakeru rewinding time after each route that the Vice-President can cultivate his Animakinesis and restoring everyone's memories of their respective routes that the TSC is reformed and search for a way for the Vice-President to continue existing without Yoru. And if you want to make the ending sweeter, be prepared to fight all nine Monarks at their strongest and round 2 with the Final Boss with only your Fiends as your back-up. Defeating Yog-Sothoth a second time will let net you one more wish, which you can use for a Bragging Rights Reward or revive either Kakeru or Sora Jingu.
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Monark / Videogame / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Monark / Videogame / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Act 2 is kicked off by Chiyo's death and Sora disbanding the True Student Council. After that, what little humor is in the story is as good as gone.
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Monark / Videogame / int_ff195327	comment	Elevator School: Shin Mikado takes both middle school and high school students, with separate buildings meant for their respective years and students, though the high school portion of the campus is the main focus.
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