[JPN] Underground Campaign UGCP – Ana●Holic! アナ●ホリ!

The main setting for the game is a camp site near the Dragon God Mountains. It is a series of 10 mountains that lead to the center where a dragon resides. According to folklore, every night the demons and spirits from the mountains come down to the village, and eat the women and children. To stop this from happening legend says you should break a seal by killing the demon leader.

Characters

You first meet up with the Boss 親方

He asks for your party members’ names. One recommendation is to choose names that fits with their job class. Here’s a suggested list of names that follows the Japanese nicknames they use on various forums. Alternatively you can also go by their outfit color.

• The Protagonist has all around average stats. His special skill is to blast rocks.
• The Bald Guy. compared to the other guys, his agility is low. but he can give a large amount of damage to enemies.
• The Conversationalist‘s speech skill allows him to raise his allies and lower the enemies stats. He has high intellect and agility.
• The Samurai‘s special skill gives damages all the enemies. His defense is low but his agility is higher than the others.
• The Medic‘s special skill is healing and recovery, and gives status effects to enemies (later on.)
• The Gunner, he uses attributes on his gun attacks. (He’s an elementalist)

After starting the game you will be placed outside a house, this is your bunk house. Just go inside and talk to your members to add them to the party. If you do not like your choices you can talk to the dog to break up the party. The town itself has icons outside of shops telling you what they sell.

Earning Money

In order to make money you will have to explore the cave and find blue rocks and sell them.

• 石炭 Coal (in the above pic) sells for 100 Yen
• 水晶 Crystal sells for 300 Yen

The game is quite a grind-fest, and extremely difficult at early levels. You can not just rush right through and expect to do well. You will have to grind around certain areas that contain a white spring that fully heals your entire party.

Item Menu

It is essential to know what items do what. Generally if you see the word HP, you know it’s going to recover HP, but most of the time you will get hit by poison status effects that kills your party member extremely fast outside of battle.

• 褐色の爆薬: Brown Rock Explosives: Breaks brown rocks.
• 傷薬: 100¥ Potion : Heals 50 HP
• 消毒液 70¥: Disinfectant: Removes Poison status effect.
• ゴールデンバット 100¥: Golden Bat : Recovers (Silence)
• ハッカ油 100¥: Hakka Oil: Recovers Silence
• 高級傷薬: 500¥ High Grade Potion: Recover 300 HP
• 最高級傷薬 3000¥ Highest Grade Potion: Recovers ALL HP
• ブランデー 1500¥ Brandy: Recovers Incapacitation (Death)
• 命綱 300¥ Lifeline: Return to the Campsite
• 魔除けの鈴 500¥ Amulet: No encounters for 500 Steps

Battle

Posing gives you some quick eye candy! Considering this game uses random encounters, battles can get annoying fast. I’d recommend the developers implement auto-battle into the game, or severely decrease the amount of battles needed to level up. The main battle menu starting from the top is 1. Attack 2. Special Skills 3. Items and 4. Defense. I’ll just highlight some of the best skills that show up early in the game. All Characters

• ポージング : Posing: Go nude for 1 turn, receive 2x damage. Next turn deals a strong attack

Bald Guy

• いしあたま Blockhead : Deals large Damage

Conversationalist

• 応援 Aid: Raises attack power.
• Recommendation: Use this in combination with Bald Guy’s Blockhead move.

Samurai

• 若竹 Wakatake Deals low damage to all enemies
• 酔仙 Suisen: Deals mid damage to all enemies.

Medic

• プロテイン Protein: Essential for healing!
• リドック Redock: Removes Poison!

Gunner

• 火弾グリンブル丙式 Fire Ball: Fire Elemental Damage.
• 水撃ドラウプニル丙式 Water Hammer: Water Elemental Damage.
• 雷震ミョルニル丙式 Lightning Quake: Lightning Elemental Damage.
• Recommendation: Keep the Gunner in the party, he starts off sucky but in the end he becomes essential.

9 Demons

Each mountain has a hidden boss located behind a rock wall. If you defeat them, they will join your party. Near these demons you’ll meet up with Gaku-san, who calls himself a demon scholar, and is currently investigating the mythos around them. Usually when you find him, there is a demon nearby. Gaku is located within the northern houses in the campsite, indicated by a sign with a black sphere. Talk to him and choose “妖怪を仲間にしたい” (Make the Demon a Partner). If your party is full, he’ll ask you which person you want to kick out.

Okuri-inu (Escorting Wolf)

Each demon appears to be related to Japanese folklore, like the Okuri-inu who follows you home. The demons themselves are pretty hard and you should generally try going after them after you completely clear a mountain.