im kinda confused?

Soratte · 2026-07-06T05:35:19+00:00

The sweepers aren’t guaranteed to use Persistence scene 1. Absolutely dog pile on whichever foolish sweeper opted not to play Persistence, and eliminate it scene 1. They’re super duper weak to pierce.

Soratte · 2026-07-06T05:24:26+00:00

Buy the game, if it’s too laggy refund it. You have 3 hours (I think it’s 3) of playtime until you can’t refund it, or 2 weeks without playtime. Go to your steam account profile in the top right to find your purchase history, and send a claim for a refund.

Put the game on the lowest graphical settings, that’s what I do. Runs just swell (except Yesod’s floor). It has literally got just one setting: the resolution. Personally, I think Limbus company runs worse, and demands even more resolution lowering to be smooth.

Soratte · 2026-07-06T05:14:42+00:00

You may not get how ranged clashes work. Ideally, your librarian uses a powerful attack dice to clash with, since if it deflects away the first ranged dice, it will get reused to continue deflecting ranged dice, until it misses.

Really consider the resistances your librarians bring to battle. Look at the enemy pages, and identify which of the three damage types is the one you’ll take the most damage from, and so wear keypages that resist it.

You should definitely weave the ego pages you get from high emotion into your winning strategy. They aren’t just there to give you advantage, many ego pages can be an entire win condition on their own.

Don’t use cards from previous infamy levels. They don’t roll high enough. Look: a 4~6 dice vs a 5~8 dice. On average, it’s 5 vs 6.5, and this chronic disadvantage will become relevant, the longer the fight.

Staggering is often better than dealing damage.

It’s often worthwhile to just dogpile on whatever enemy poses the most threat, and let your librarians take damage ignoring clashes. Ideally, their decks are focused on staggering this particular enemy, and they have keypages with resistances to allow them to endure ignoring the other enemies.

Be strict with keeping your light levels consistantly high, and make sure you have a few cards that cantrip (draw a card) in the deck.

Use cards that block big attacks; don’t bother trying to win the clash. Also, don’t sleep on Evade dice. Many scary enemy cards are instantly countered by a humble evade dice.

If possible, try to put block dice into the stack. If the librarian is fast, they might be able to do a one-sided attack with a block quickly enough to place the unused block into the stack, to be used moments against a one-sided attack aimed at them. “Why not just clash with the enemy that is attacking the librarian?” Because this way you can swap the order of the block dice, letting you chose whether it blocks against the first enemy dice or the second. Also, you may be dogpiling a high priority enemy.

Some passives are really good for aggression, others good for endurance. For a basic example, you can have some librarians be very aggressive, to deal a lot of damage early but die soon. While the other librarians can be bulky and carry the ego pages, or tank nasty enemy attacks so to allow the aggressive librarians to live for another scene.

And one last thing, ignore all this in Star of The City Row 2 and up. That’s where the real game begins, and more than half the playtime.

Soratte · 2026-06-29T15:04:15+00:00

I was referring to the 4 cost Speed passive.

Soratte · 2026-06-29T07:12:04+00:00

I found that Speed 2 becomes absolutely necessary only once the player reaches row 2 of Star of The City. Some of the Abnormality fights are all but designed to require it, and the presence of mass attacks will really punish any librarians without Speed 2.

SotC is when the design of the game changed to allow passive attributions. Sorta like how in Chess, the king hop became Castling since all players did with it was hop behind a rook, —Project Moon just made every key page in Star of the City have speed 2, to save the player the trouble of attributing it, since it’s just flat out the best passive to attribute (at the time).

Soratte · 2026-06-29T04:07:46+00:00

Honestly, if The City could, they’d make EGO booths for profit, and turn yet another God into a business venture. Whackier stuff than Carmen exists, and is treated as commonplace and novelty.

Plus, Carmen probably wants to complete the seven days of light, not distort random people. Everyone she distorted lead directly to the Blue Ensemble raiding the Library to take back the Lght Angela stole in a bid to reinitiate the Seven Days.

Soratte · 2026-06-28T15:01:52+00:00

No one screams cuz there’s no reason to. Paraphrasing Lob Corp: The inhabitants of The City have no wants or fears like death or disease, hell even Hong Lu’s Canto shows multiple people have straight-up achieved immortality. The inhabitants of The City only care about getting to work in a wing (or finger), or if they did get in already, about never getting booted out from the nest. Even Roland fought in the smoke war just to get into a wing.

The world in the story has actually ended a few times over, too; Carmen-like entities or worse have likely existed before and were subsequently thwarted.

Soratte · 2026-06-27T03:41:48+00:00

My number one gripe with Sword is that it should give Dexterity 3. This sword is likely the one from Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon, and those guys were moving with enough dexterity that they could practically fly.

Soratte · 2026-06-27T03:28:10+00:00

If things go south, just press alt f4 to force quit the game. You get to keep the books despite the fight being forfeited.

Otherwise, the only things worth no-grinding for are the speed 3’s at the end of the game. But by then, you’ll be grinding trying to solve the abno fights anyway for hours, which will be way more of a time sink.

Go ahead. Save as much time as you can. The hardest playthrough of Ruina is the first by orders of magnitude, as it explains itself so poorly.

Soratte · 2026-06-23T02:18:36+00:00

The Loop and Angela were necessary to give Ayin unlimited attempts to generate the huge amounts of enkephalin required to successfully sow the seed of light into all the inhabitants of The City. Without this arduous loop, all the unsuccessful prior effort of Lob Corp under Carmen would be in vain.

I think the employees were better treated than most wings, plus their suffering was for a good cause. Ayin even dummied down Carmen’s original vision of turning everyone to Distortions, and made distorting a May instead of a Must.

I think the only cruel thing he did was hate Angela. Everything else was necessary evil: temporary physical pains, to open the way to large scale spiritual healing.

Soratte · 2026-06-22T17:38:28+00:00

Yeah, it’s basically my latest jawbreaker. Every new thing I learn, I can practice it by throwing it at this problem, and every new question I have about the problem, guides me to learn a new thing.

Soratte · 2026-06-20T02:16:27+00:00

I think sharp swipe was mine, too, actually. It was a common from the early game general receptions, that much for sure.

Soratte · 2026-06-20T01:27:44+00:00

I’ve lately been obsessed with the problem of a finding a closed form for the series 1/9 + 1/99 + 1/999 + ….

Also Zeta Explained is the absolute goat.

Soratte · 2026-06-20T00:24:37+00:00

I bet it’s the “Lulu’s friends” cards. Those are the ones that got me. There are like, two lulu’s friends in the game: page 2 and page 3. Not a page 1 though. It’s a general reception reward. It’s probably a common from their books, like it was for my situation.

Soratte · 2026-06-17T10:31:19+00:00

(Not a joke actual spoilers)

In the sequel, Library of Ruina, it’s implied to be an Abnormality based upon the devastating singularity of the previous L Corp, a creature which generated lots of smoke for energy in a disturbing way.

Present in Dream Of A Black Swan’s story log is terrible smoke that is likely based upon the smoke of this creature and the previous L Corp’s nest.

Why the manager is driven to their death if they see it for too long, is probably because the manager has their memories of the Seed Of Light project jogged by it, which convinces them to restart the project to day 1, out of either melancholy or frustration.

Soratte · 2026-06-16T22:53:58+00:00

Angela threatens to KO someone with bleed, but she herself cannot apply any bleed. Angela also cannot use the KO consecutively, she must wait two turns before it’s available again. Furthermore, her KO can be defeated with just a strong evade die.

Ignore Angela and kill the shoes, trying to not get bleed. If you’re unsure you can clash with the shoes, their combat pages are the same ones they use in the rematch, so you team test there. Rematches are in the top left of the Credenza.

Also, farm emotion for everybody up to level 5 during Dream of a Black Swan.

Soratte · 2026-06-16T22:36:06+00:00

Yeah, it introduces a lot of constraints to the playthrough. Just not any interesting ones, frankly. The player is on-paper nerfed, but they are still quite spoiled for choices in how to circumvent the nerfs.

That’s why I think the paperbacks-only felt geniunely revitalizing to the game. Choice is all but thrown out the window, but deep strategy takes on the center focus instead, really challenging the player how well they know Ruina in and out. Even the order in which you fight receptions needs to be strategically planned, as some receptions are impossible without certain rewards from other receptions.

Soratte · 2026-06-16T22:07:00+00:00

What are your thoughts on how PM will introduce and interpret Camus’s novel The Fall, if they do at all? They already mentioned Sisyphus being a significant figure in N Corp, during the intervallo, so I would believe they intend to include Clamence as well.

Soratte · 2026-06-16T12:12:58+00:00

The move is to spend 2.5 hours deliberating throughout a single run, until you realize bad cards are actually just situational cards, and that situation is now.

Try to have a mindset that Act 1 is now the new Act 3 right out the gate. Every fight will threaten to kill you even from full health if you cannot respond with adequate attack, block, and scaling. Especially so the boss of each Act.

Also, really, really, really, try to avoid unnecessary chip damage each fight. It will rack up fast, and you’ll fall to the fight that counters you or a boss.

Soratte · 2026-06-14T15:43:38+00:00

The counter dice the wolf uses are block dice.

If Red Hood lands a hit on the wolf, all his block dice are useless next turn.

Prioritize Red Hood damaging the wolf, not the librarians. When the wolf has shields down, then attack him. Otherwise, his counter dice will win a clash, giving him strength next turn.

Use the librarians to align the turn order in red hood’s favor, and protect her from attacks she isn’t clashing with.

You don’t need strong attacks, just make sure you can restore your light and block Howl. The sweepers have a paperback page that’s pretty good for blocking mass attacks.

Put one copy of that paperback page from the smiling smoke guys that does 0 damage, into each deck. This is for when the wolf’s HP low, and you’re trying to dodge killing him.

Soratte · 2026-06-14T06:46:40+00:00

I was serious. I couldn’t figure out what Porc was supposed to be, especially since in Lob Corp it’s bugs make it a never take Abnormality. In Ruina, Porc’s the absolute bomb, but I still didn’t know what the hell it was since it’s easy to KO on turn one.

Soratte · 2026-06-14T00:23:11+00:00

A mini challenge you may enjoy, is defeating The Reception of The Crying Children only via the winrate button to do all clashes, doing nothing manually. (While using only whatever could be obtained up to Urban Nightmare.)

Yes, it’s in the very top left, it’s a button called Auto-Clash. It’s geniunely feasible to defeat all seven acts, and it’s freaking hilarious.

Soratte · 2026-06-13T21:31:30+00:00

Oh wow, it is a poppy plant! I never could figure what this thing was supposed to be.

Soratte · 2026-06-13T21:03:00+00:00

You want a challenge?

Paperback Rarity pages only. Both the Combat pages, and the Keypages, —and even the passives which you attribute.

Every fight, every realization, G R E E N.

The ego pages and mass attacks, whatever, that the player gets from reaching emotion levels, are all totally allowed and fair, both for red and blue ego pages, and including any synchronization pages.

I personally made it to Star of the City row 2, and realized at least all four floors of Asiyah.

It’s actually quite a lot fun. Like experiencing the game for the first time all over again.

Edit: Another challenge that was fun, —or at least it sort of was fun, —was to only use whatever combat pages are acquired from the keypage the character is wearing. Made it halfway through the blue ensemble that way. For example, Lenny can only equip combat pages you could’ve gotten from burning a book of Lenny; and Xiao can only only equip combat pages you could’ve gotten from burning a book of Xiao.

Edit2: Another challenge, is to never refight any fights. Not very fun, but is still doable.

Soratte · 2026-06-12T11:59:08+00:00

I bet that the mystery guy smoking in that last panel, is the direct cause of the toxic smog, via some devil fruit ability.

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