Fay
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Author said they added new stuff after beta testing if I recall it correctly. We haven’t seen the final final product.
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Hope that one of those new things is the ability for male mc to borrow from Leon even if Astrid won’t help them, assuming the party is still mandatory now. Otherwise that night is going to be very, very humiliating for my poor mc.
From what I recall this used to depend on your character stats and build more than anything else. So I guess we’ll need to see how things have changed in that regard. some damsel in distress moments used to be very difficult to avoid unless you stacked up on willpower or knew exactly how to metagame it.
That was always impossible, but in the old opening, the charity the mc did receive felt far less intrusive. The big change that we know for certain is that the mc is now guaranteed to be a political charity case, instead of a (partial) scholarship student. Also unless that’s changed too, Astrid is now going to easily compel an mc, like mine who hasn’t stocked up on willpower to give her money back. If that happens the mc used to end the game flat-ass broke. Again, unless that’s changed now. 
Which might point to another potential problem with the new opening, given how easily the mc can be compelled by others it is really difficult to believe the authorities couldn’t simply mind-wipe them in the beginning. Yes, those of us who played the beta already know why they don’t mind-wipe the mc. Still, it seems they do lie and inflict completely unnecessary trauma on the mc in the new opening for basically nothing. Contrast that with the empathy the authorities show to Reyna if she is left alive at the ending and we have another thing that is probably really going to upset my mc in the new version.
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All we could do is hope is for the best. Just think that the MC could survive without depending on charity. 
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Drakeye
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Here I was hoping to be the lone prince in distress rescued and cared for by any supernatural that would be my savior.
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If your mc is straight and still likes Astrid then you’re in luck. You can totally play a character like that. 
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Drakeye
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Well Astrid does qualify as a “any supernatural”
No crazy humans though.
Fay
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Every lesbian/bi mc reading this:
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You’re right we wouldn’t want to anger the silent lesbian majority here. 
So, yes, Astrid works for every non-straight female or gay male mc who still likes her and doesn’t mind being a damsel-in-distress or distressed dude.
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Drakeye
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Yay I can be like spaghetti!
Straight until it gets hot.
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Actually if i remember correctly MC has several scenes that will defend Astrid against that girl who bully her , telling that girl and her 2 followers to back off hence not a typical damsel in distress… not to mention a choice to capture Seraphina dragon hence MC could be Astrid’s protector as well 
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Talking is one thing, but having power to do so is entirely different thing.
So, even if you stand against the bullies you don’t have the power. So basically you are nothing but a dog who barks rather than bite. They can easily swat you like a fly if they want to. So there’s nothing to be proud of.
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Not powerless at all. i blast their hound dogs with lightning and light magic
If given choice i would blast them again with Electricity manipulation before they can spill another words to Astrid :-)
same power could be used against the Hydra
forget to add that i also beat Leon and other duelist with my lightning power , hence hardly a damsel for my MC, sorry @fay … i know you won’t do it , but i think i hurt Leon badly in the test
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Depends on your mc build and stats, or used to in the old version. They could take the mc (though with the correct stats in the old version probably not without sustaining at least some injuries themselves) if they were really willing to fight, but most bullies usually aren’t. Of course with the new opening the mc does not have the benefit of a favourable first impression or rumours that they have magical potential/power, so that might make those bullies more willing to risk a confrontation. We’ll see I guess.
After that new opening, my mc would probably agree with you.
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Fay
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Don’t be sorry, I beat Leon too. And my MC is crazy about him, but a girl gotta do what she gotta do to get that A+. If I had to choose between a perfect grade or my boyfriend, you better bet that I’d graduate with straight A’s.
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In the new setup I think my mc might let Leon win on purpose, assuming there is an option to stand still and do nothing now. Much like with the harpies in first simulation.
Fay
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Huh, I didn’t think that your mc was that kind of person. I mean… he doesn’t really think highly of leon.
Frogs
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I think people are kinda underestimating the MC.
Generally I don’t like games where you play as a weak/useless character but the MC here isn’t really weak at all.
After living my whole life as a human I learnt I had powers for the first time, and despite having no experience at all with magic I could still learn things quickly and become one of the top students with very high grades. I also defeated several powerful monsters (hydra, drake etc) and even defeated Reyna who was possessed by a demon and killed her myself.
While the MC here isn’t overpowered like in some other games I didn’t feel inferior to the other students and with more years of training I feel like the MC can become one of the strongest magi in NMC eventually
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Fay
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With the old opening, I’d have agreed with you. The new one, even if it doesn’t change the actual power-curve of the mc (except for the Gorgon encounter at the beginning) certainly changes the feeling of it and the feelings of the mc. As we go from somebody who is confirmed to have potentially lots of magical potential to someone who has at best demonstrated kindergarten levels of magical power (and Castella doesn’t hesitate to tell the mc and Patil that too) and then, inexplicably gets shipped off the university anyway as some sort of charity case, pet project of Secretary Patil. In the old opening the mc at least got a (partial) scholarship from the president of the university.
The new opening changes both the first impressions the mc makes on the magical world and the first impression the magical world makes on the mc and in both cases significantly for the worse.
Thus the old opening made the mc feel like they at least belonged at magical university. The new one, not so much, imho.
Yeah, and given that those “powers” in the new opening refused to manifest at any prior point in his life or even to literally save his life from the Gorgon, but only deign to do so at the point they are least welcome, during a literal mind-rape the very moment when my mc would really have wanted them to keep being dormant. Given that if they hadn’t the mc would have blissfully forgotten all about the mind-rape. My mc now starts out absolutely hating his powers and the reveal at the end of the game makes it worse, not better. As it did that even in the old situation.
I mean we now start out with the amazing “power” to be forced to remember a (mind)rape attempt, yay!
Technically that always depended on the mc’s choices. And you’re objectively right, but subjectively they feel a lot worse now.
Which is the reason why my mc wants to punch a certain deadbeat really hard now!
Neither of that is guaranteed. Also the Drake is a simulation. So that one was mostly risk-free anyway.
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Drakeye
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thats what they said in star trek before the holodeck went haywire and came to life
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