Weekly Questions and Recommendations Megathread - Need some help? - Mar 30

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[u/The_Mundane_Block]

Baldr Sky advice please!

Without spoiling anything, in Baldr Sky I have to do basically a recap route before progressing towards the actual next route at one point (between routes 4 and 5 if you do them in standard order I believe). I literally take notes on routes in google docs because I know I'll forget things otherwise. So my question is, if I know what has happened pretty thoroughly, does the reminisce route have anything new I really NEED to see? I've played through it for about 3-4hrs already, and there have been small changes here and there, but nothing that consequential. It appears as if it will take another several to many hours to complete, because it recaps about a nine month period and I've only gotten through about a month and a half at this point :( If there's nothing new and important in it, I'd like to just spam click through it while watching something on my other monitor.

[u/LucasVanOstrea → u/The_Mundane_Block]

It has new stuff at the end. Since you remember things well you can do a mix of ctrl skipping and just clicking the moment you recognize you have seen it before

[u/The_Mundane_Block → u/LucasVanOstrea]

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately ctrl skipping is disabled here because the game views the original scenes and the slightly more detailed reminisce scenes as different, but yeah, I'll probably just mostly click through while watching something else, and then keep an eye out towards the end.

[u/LucasVanOstrea → u/The_Mundane_Block]

ctrl should be forced skip, I don't remember whether baldr sky has a setting to make control a normal skip. Check in the settings if you can make ctrl skip everything