[Storm Lover] Strategy to get the special ending (Minor spoilers)
What I call the special ending is actually the >!harem ending!<.
I heard people struggled with it, I made a guide with a strategy that works and playtested it yesterday:
How to:
-> Pick your main man among these LIs >!Kyousuke,Yuto,Takumi,Soya,Rikka,Mio!< and a secondary man
You don’t need >!Tsukasa!< since he is only >!unlocked when you previously complete the game once!< the ending doesn‘t require it since >!unlike Tsukasa!< it can be gotten from the beginning
->During the day, raise the affection of your main, and when he is not here on the map, mix it between speaking to your secondary man or raising your stats.
-> Use the evenings primarily to study, in early game you don’t need to reply to every email sent by your main men, but if you need a quick boost when you have the required stats to pass your upcoming exams, send emails to your main.
Feel free to vary between studying and sending texts later, this is more a guideline for the beginning.
Personally I like sending at least one email once per week and if my stats requirements for the next exams are met, focus on emails.
-> Get a relationship with your first man, if possible propose yourself first to save time, even if he reject you can reload to ask again or wait for your chance later.
-> Once you are in a relationship, ghost your boyfriend completely now.
Your secondary man is now your main and you pick another secondary man to redo the same.
-> Continue raising your new main man’s affection, but monitor’s bf dissatisfaction until you have the option to drop your boyfriend when the bar get pass a certain level (generally around 70-80%) or your secondary man ask you to date him instead.
A warning, Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES, let another girl steal him from you, if needed fight back even if the breakup is delayed.
-> Now you have to redo the same but it’s not just a matter of dumping guys and jumping to the next, after that you’ll have to try to talk again to your ex to remove the awkward tension while continuing what I taught you with the other men.
-> In my experience it took >!3-5!< interaction to make your ex come to talk to you again normally, then you can chat with him just like you used to prior to dating
-> You’ll have to raise your affection again with your ex too, but this time make sure it’s not over half the affection bar of the characters, if I had to give percentage, and the middle of the bar count is 50%, a safe estimate is 30-40% after that avoid talking to this guy once again.
-> It’s all you have to do is repeat these steps over and over for all men.
It’s all about managing your main man, secondary ones and any exes either raising their affections or trying to make exes talk to you again, you’re going to be busy.
-> When you’re down to your last boyfriend with no secondary man to pick him after, spend time away from him to raise his dissatisfaction and you’ll be to break up and after that dont get into anymore relationship just focus on all exes or studying.
-> If you finish early or you have lot of holes in your planning, just for immersion it’s optional, you can raise the affection of >!Tsukasa!< too without dating him >!if he is unlocked !<
-> Make sure at the end of the game you’re like you’re a sock: start in pair but end single, you dated everyone required, and every ex has at least 30-40% on their love bar.
-> You should be able to unlock the >!harem!< ending after
Tips
I cannot stress it enough but please study lmao, don’t spend all your time talking to boys if you don’t pass your exams you’ll be cooked and brought into >!extra courses and make you loose events and days of seeing the men!<, this advice also works irl lmao
Be prepared to reload if needed before the day end to and save before a choice, to avoid hearing one of your ex wanting to go back together or any event related to an ex
To break up yourself directly you can talk to him on the map, if you don’t see the option reload and talk to him later , it mean his dissatisfaction isn’t enough.
The more you ghost your boyfriend, the more dissatisfaction grow use that to your advantage.
If Takashi or Chihiro want to go home with you accept it they can either give you stats boosts or make it more immersive
As you can tell overtime you’ll not just pick a main and a secondary man but also try to raise affection with your ex, whatever you do don’t go beyond the threshold I mentioned because you might get events to get back together and if you refuse him since you’re aiming for the >!harem!< ending his affection will drop again which can ruins your work.
If you see a girl on the map and there is no boys to talk to, go talk to her, she might raise your stats, if she doesn’t you can just reload and pick another option on the map
The end:
I hope it was helpful for anyone looking to get the ending, this how I manage to get the ending, if you have any questions or a point wasn’t clear let me know in the comments I’m willing to edit the guide if needed or clarify something you didn’t understood.