I could gush on and on about this obscure PS2 title but meh, I doubt the other five fans of it wouldn't even see this.

I did find some rare pieces of fanart, which actually makes me happy to see other fans of the game.

Hell, Claire is there and I know some people had to waifu her hard enough to at least scrounge up the full picture. Yet, image searches pull up just in game screen shots.

Usually, you just end up finding the same pictures of Mouse, Loreille, Xelpherpolis, and Rummy (for good reason). Occasionally, Rinna and Bagoth pop up.

But with the collages, I clearly see artwork for characters like Plosi and Ano.

I've had little luck finding the solo pieces that make up these collages on cover variants.

And that's just scratching the surface of the game itself. Don't get me started on trying to find the official artwork for it. Much of it either seems lost or buried in the most obscure of geocities websites.

I lack a screencap atm of choosing Claire, but Plosi does have different... comments about each girl's appeal to him.

While the variants ultimately cover the same information, it's more about the details of personality that come through Rummy and Claire's dialogue.

A similar thing occurs when selecting one of them to be Plosi's art model. Same broad strokes, different minor details.

Which causes you to miss the scene where Rummy pulls a gag and tricks you by repeating her normal lines before she was freed from the memory wipe.

Since these two are typically the first recruits, both share a variant of a scene where they discuss the plan to free others.

However, if you recruited multiple people in the previous loop, only one will be selected to greet you, causing you to miss scenes of the others.

Case in point, many guides suggest recruiting Claire and Rummy on the first loop. However, you tend to get Claire greeting you.

Which, that is a fine way to play, however, there is a lot that ends up lost because the lack of free experimentation.

For example, all the scenes at the dock with your newly recruited allies. An ally will greet you at the dock at the dawn of a new time loop.

Sure, you can use multiple guides at the same time to piece together a somewhat complete picture. However, due to the rather open nature of the game, things fall through the cracks.

Most guides work to run an optimal schedule of the looping time mechanic.

Walkthroughs, for example, are quite spotty in information. Sure, they will get you through the main course of the game. However, they lack a lot of the side content, Skill lists, alternate scene triggers, etc.

Thanks for the advice. Looks like a lot of the accounts I did follow haven't migrated here yet. But I did find a few.