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Volcano Princesscarries on the proud tradition of games like Long Live The Queen by having the romance endings be very confusing to get sometimes: You can exclusively go on dates with women throughout a playthrough and then end up married to the blacksmith’s son in the epilogue because you were his favourite customer.
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To avoid headaches like this, it can help to check how the game’s relationship system works and how to both raise and lower affection with people. This guide will also help you unlock the several polyamorous endings that were patched into the game after release.
How To Get Romance Endings In Volcano Princess
The game does amostlygood job at explaining the romance system: Increasing a character’s favourability rating to the maximum and attending all three of their bonding events will unlock them to be romanced in the ending.
The easiest way to increase favourability with a character is to speak to them daily and use your limited number of social interactions toask them for advice or spend time with them.
You can take characters on dates(platonically or romantically) once you reach friend status.This provides a large sum of affection, but this will also consume action points needed for other daily activities.
You will also need toanswer some questions about the character’smotivations or interests.
Gifts are a way of raising favourability that does not consume any other resources. Most rare or luxury items (such ashomemade wines, rare flowers,and golden knick-knacks) will be liked by all characters.
Where the career options allow you to pick between all the routes you meet the requirements of,you will only get the romantic ending of the character with the highest favour.
If you want tolower your favourability with someoneyou can do this by getting caught stealing from them.You can learn pickpocketing from an NPC encountered at the dark alley, but he will demand several hundred gold in payment first.
The character with the currenthighest favour is the one at the top of the listof friends in your social menu.
The cast is best split into the main and side characters, plus the three lords:
You can dodge the romantic routes of main characters byskipping their bonding events(just tell them no when they ask to see your daughter at the start of a month). Side characters will have their bonding events play automatically,locking you into their ending if you have too much affection.
Main Love Interests In Volcano Princess
The bulk of these love interests are other people your own age, withseveral of them attending the same academy. Since you’re all training as knights together,they can help you with exploring the forest,making them useful friends even outside of romancing them.
If your affection with one of these characters is too high, you can turn down their bonding event at the start of a month. This will prevent any further events with andremove them as a potential romantic partner.
Strength D+
Mona enjoys talking aboutromance and travelin the botanical gardens.
The only character able togenerate additional energy during combat, she can support another party member who relies on energy-intensive moves.
Emotion C
Imagination D+
Nina likes the occult.Take her to the altar libraryand indulge her interests.
Nina’ssingle target healing ability, along with her being one of the earliest characters you can befriend, make her a strong companion on a first playthrough.
Strength A
Intelligence B
Ze likes archery. Take Ze to the coliseum and talk about archery.
Ze’s ability to petrify enemies in combat is best used to avoid lethal damage or toprevent powerful enemy moves such as mind control spells.Having access to this stunning attack as his first ability makes himthe strongest adventuring buddy.
Emotion C+
Imagination B+
Benson is invested in both art and religion, sothe altar libraryis a good date spot for him.
His attacks are energy efficient and can apply both theburn and weakness debuffsto enemies.
Imagination A
Emotion B
Take Craig to the garden and laze aroundfor an easy affection boost.
Craig makes the most of long fights,providing stacking buffs and having an AoE healthat takes several turn’s energy to cast.
Strength B+
Hackett cares deeply about plants and will enjoy discussing the ones found in the botanical garden.
He also hasone of the lowest thresholds for reaching best friend status.
Hackett canprovide ablative hitpoints to the party, protecting against AoE attacks.
Strength C
Kenneth enjoyscloud gazingin the gardens.
Kenneth boasts high defensive stats. He can contribute to a party even if you never attack with him. His capstone ability Animal Trapcan stun several enemies at once,but you’ll need to keep energy in reserve to be able to use it.
Imagination C+
Strength C+
Lon enjoys visiting the coliseum totalk about history and monster hunting.
Lon’s attacks consume a lot of energybut debuff enemy defence and offence.
If you want to collect multiple endings, you’re able to keep the affection points of multiple characters as close to each other as possible and thentake one of them on a date during the final day before reloading and repeatingwith a different character.
Romancing The Three Lords In Volcano Princess
The three Lords you can romance are similar to the main cast in thattheir routes can be canceled by refusing their visits at the start of a month. They differ from the other cast members in that you will only be able to easily interact withone Lord on any playthrough,depending on who you pledge your allegiance to at school.
Since the three lords, in many ways, represent specific play styles, it helps topursue them while on a playthrough that matches their stat focus.
Completing the quests they assign you willprovide you with additional affection pointsthat make it easier to secure a romance ending with them.
The martial prodigy favours combat and physical activity. You’ll want to romance her on a playthrough with a lot of adventuring in the forest, along with bulking up your strength.
Intelligence A
The school principal favours intellect. His playthrough expects you to focus on raising skills in and out of classes. Build up a large amount of mind and then use it to perform alchemy in the plaza.
Imagination B
The Princess expects you to prioritise the fine arts.You can earn her affection by attending balls in the central plaza.
Romancing Side Characters In Volcano Princess
The events for these characters cannot be skipped: They will occur during the middle of the week (during your studies). You should be careful about raising your affection with them if you are not interested in romancing them.
There are some things to be aware of concerning some of the following characters:
As these characters broadly havelower favour requirements to befriendthey are quite easy to unlock the romance routes for.
Best gifts
Likesjasmine, in both flower and tea forms.
Works in the church.
Germain the Blacksmith
Buying expensive items from his shopgrants more affection than any gift you can offer him.
Operates the smithy in the plaza.
Mark The Guard
Give him aforget-me-not flowersince remembering his name is the highest compliment.
Mary the bathhouse owner
Rebecca the tailor
Runs a clothing stall in the plaza.
Derrick The Bard
Likes all flowers and simple food such asbread or diced carrots.
Is normally in the restaurant. He will become unavailable for a few months in the middle of the game.
How To Get Polyamorous Endings In Volcano Princess
Some combinations of main charactersallow you to romance multiple of them at once. The polyamorous versions require you tomax affection with all of the characters listed, but if you meet the conditions, it willtake priority over the individual romance routes.
The following combinations of people are available for polyamorous endings:
Careers That Lock You Out Of Romance Endings
Certain career endings can lock you out of receiving a romantic ending.
Many of them are rather clearly flagged in their description: It’s generally frowned upon for a nun to have five husbands or for the queen consort to have a side hustle as a call girl. The following futures at the graduation ceremony should be watched out for:
Unlike career, darkness level does not appear to impact your ability to achieve romance endings with any character.
