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I just learned of the game's existence a day or so ago, and I looked at it long and hard before going "Nah" after deciding that I might not like the gameplay after reading some reviews that say it can be steamrolled through with casters. I'll look at it again if that was actually an exaggeration.

Personally my experience has been that if you take the Hard difficulty petition as soon as it's available then it lands pretty nicely at the point where I've actually wiped a handful of times (and had a few other pretty close shaves where only 1-2 puppets survive the battle). Like a lot of the NIS games you can definitely min-max it to the point where you can crush most things other than bosses without too much effort though. And while caster's are strong in my experience they've come with a different drawback; i.e. if you use them too much then you have to resort to warping in and out of the labyrinth every 5 minutes to refresh their MP, and a caster build can usually be oneshot by a good breeze.

Oh, you thick-skinned youngsters. You've been raised on this shit.
It doth offend my Victorian sensibilities all the same.

Apologies, I probably could have better emphasized that NIS games (Disgaea series as well, for example) have a particular type of aesthetic and since this is a rated M game they aren't pulling their punches at all really. The game runs the whole gamut of some oversexualized costumes/enemies, descriptions of violence/gore and sexual violence (the latter not graphically, but still very much present), literal shit/waste covered and throwing enemies, involving the death of way too many characters who didn't deserve it right in front of you (some which you are actively trying to save), and has on multiple occasions made me feel like a terrible person for accidentally (multiple times) or on purpose (also multiple times) performing terrible acts for personal gain (notable call out to the optional boss who didn't want to fight at first and then started crying and trembling in fear to the point of passing their turns when on super low HP, that one... kinda got to me).

If one of those things really gets to you then yeah, probably give the game a pass. This isn't one of those games that some overzealous rating board gave it a M rating or that picked it up because it shows a nipple somewhere (AFAIK there isn't any actual nudity display in-game), it definitely deserves that rating just across the board. I'll edit the original suggestion to note that a bit more.

I feel like "peel the onion before you eat it, idiot" isn't something that normally requires a cautionary tale to instill in people, but then again, people from northern climates are known to value layers.

You badly underestimate how poor some people's cooking skills are. personally the fact that onions are basically a case of "remove layers until they become tender enough to use" and there isn't really any real differences between the inner and outer layers other than toughness and how dried out they are still blows my mind from time to time.

I don't know of any way to relocate after embark, but for what it's worth you can somewhat limit where it ends up pre-embark. If you select a biome with the F keys then (unless they've changed it and I didn't realize it) your wagon will always appear in that particular biome. Not quite as useful as you want, but it's something.

added commitment details for sexual orientation (lover vs. marriage, only for citizens, not for animals)

This is great! (Once I found where the setting was hidden that was). It certainly explains why my planned generation fortress wasn't having any progress; turns out that basically everyone was unwilling to marry members of the opposite sex. Time to abandon and roll up a new fortress I guess.

Fair enough. I've always been a water + milk guy, and milk is obviously a little fatty to spam as your drink of choice beyond a few cups with dinner/etc. so I'm not the most up to date on various drink benefits/drawbacks beyond the "Soda bad!" level.

I'm not sure what you mean by "slimmer" there; the release binaries that he's got up on the github are all within about 1-2 MB of the ones on the official port (some smaller, some slightly larger).

Hey we learned their names! That means they won't be dying right?

@Spehss
Worst case scenario show up the first day with an override form for the professor to sign. Almost all college classes "fill up" well before the rooms hit the maximum fire code limit; I've almost never had a college class where there wasn't at least one person who was getting an override into the class on the first day.