Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

I find it pretty good, it's a change from the rest of the action games on Nutaku since the combat takes place in real-time. It would be 200% better with PvP and ranking system like Harem Heroes

What do you guys mean by Battle Sprite? Are you talking about the 3D, or have I missed some h scenes?

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Originally Posted by Keyen

Well, you get on average 3 crystal per 4 stamina spent (or 9 crystals per hour), so you are not getting them this fast when you need several hundred for one girl... The small roster can be expanded.

That will actually depend. Some girls apparently take a lot more crystals. I got the cannon catgirl and I'm pretty sure I've spent around 300 gems on her and she's still has a whole heart level to go.

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Starting to think leveling up healing skills was a mistake. Pretty much maxed it for my level since it's impossible to collect the coins required for next level, but it only heals a small fraction of my tank's hp.

The AI for this game is so bad. I'm at one of the later stages, and my heroines keep dancing around until the time is up

Originally Posted by Arkinum

The AI for this game is so bad. I'm at one of the later stages, and my heroines keep dancing around until the time is up

What stage and have you tried moving them? (Drag and drop unit elsewhere)

I'm pretty happy with this game. The art is my favorite of the non-anime style. I like that it looks more painted than drawn. The combat is actually pretty fun, I was expecting a lot more of a grind. I'd appreciate some kind of skip button once we have finished a level with 3stars, but that's more of a luxury than anything. Not really needed due to how little energy we have at the moment.

One thing I was wondering though, is the current launch just a limited release that will be followed by a subsequent global release or is it more akin to a beta release where they will reset the accounts upon the global release? Enjoying the game for now, Happy Hunting.

Well, stage 60 seems to be the last one, it drops a legendary with 1% chance and a rare with 20% chance, both are fighter weapons, and legendary is pretty much just slightly better than the starter legendary one - 61 is shown to be 'coming soon'..

Still couldn't complete stage 60 anyway, though.. the boss is very sturdy there, although predictable enough to avoid biggest damage ability, but simple units are located quite badly, so you are wasting a lot of time to engage boss 1 on 1.

Considering myself quite unlucky here - the 30 random maiden was a duplicate of starter fire maiden... I got 1 maiden from free gacha though, which is nice, but she is also the girl you will get as 14 day login bonus, so meh... The one I got was the suzume(dark dagger girl) - she is a great melee dps, but she dies just too fast to be any useful.. so great for farming low stages, but bad for progressing and 3 star hard ones.

I never really deploy this 4th girl outside of boss fights or stage rushing, which I ended now that I am at stage 60, as she is making things harder to go for 3 star.. Unless most opponents are water, in which case she becomes better tank than the fire girl.

In my opinion, the best setup for 3 staring anything would easily be 3 ranged and 1 tank with as much defence/dodge/hp as possible. Protecting 2 melee is very hard and not worth it overall, 1 will die because of how pick up delay works. Obviously unless you get duplicate of decent gear - it's usually better to have different classes as well, but gear is not hard to get, unless we are talking about legendary, which is completely out of gacha(only 1 sword exists as legendary drop for figher and it's 1% to get it)

Leveling is too fast compared to how abilities scale, so even my highest lvl ability, which is the light healer girl one at lvl 10 only heals 15% of my tank's hp and it only gets lower as you progress.


Not much to do in the game as it is and I can't really see to improve it right now - getting new girls is even harder than in kamihime R, only 1 scene per girl, only 15 girls total(well, it's not 'only' if we consider that it will take a miracle to get over 5 as a free player)..
And considering that unlike DMM games, the western content does not have further releases, which you can just translate - the content will develop either REALLY slow or won't develop at all, so not much point telling that is still in 'starter' mode. Phantasma is the closest we got to getting a decent western game(developer wise, at least), but even it has worse balance than any of DMM games and less content, but at least it has some potential.

Also a few tips: don't waste gems on normal gacha, save up for a legendary one, that's the only one that can actually help slightly if you get lucky. You won't ever get enough for 10 draws of it anyway, so just spend as soon as you get 500 gems.
Farm boss stages - those give the most per stamina usually, not counting the stage 10 boss. Starting with stage 20 boss you can pretty much spend all stamina on bosses.
As for buildings: max temple ASAP, then barracks, then coin limit up as much as you need to get those above, level 2 inventory space is more than enough, same for research academy - just get lvl 2 or 3 and forget about it. After that comes your main party dmg shrine: I go for Fire(because legendary sword) > Nature > Light > Dark(my random girl, but if you got a good ranged girl - you might want to level her shrine earlier)

Originally Posted by Hentaika

Not much to do in the game as it is and I can't really see to improve it right now -

Are you sure about that? Looking at the trophies seems to indicate there's hard mode campaigns. Does anyone know if they're available after clearing stage 60?

Several mistakes here:

Originally Posted by Hentaika

Well, stage 60 seems to be the last one, it drops a legendary with 1% chance and a rare with 20% chance, both are fighter weapons, and legendary is pretty much just slightly better than the starter legendary one - 61 is shown to be 'coming soon'..

The stage 60 is only the first half. You unlock the hard mode, and get 60 more stages afterward. Also, the legendary drop rate is 100%, not 1%.

Originally Posted by Hentaika

The one I got was the suzume(dark dagger girl) - she is a great melee dps, but she dies just too fast to be any useful.. so great for farming low stages, but bad for progressing and 3 star hard ones.

Suzume is great. She is less tanky than Helen for sure, but she can tank a bit (better than casters), and deals tons of damage. When you are dealing with archer, you are very happy to kill them fast enough. Something you can't do with 3 casters.

Originally Posted by Hentaika

In my opinion, the best setup for 3 staring anything would easily be 3 ranged and 1 tank with as much defence/dodge/hp as possible. Protecting 2 melee is very hard and not worth it overall, 1 will die because of how pick up delay works.

I 3* everything but 5 stages (including 3 bosses stages) in normal with 2 melees (despite 4 ranged available in my team). Your reasonning has a major flaw: Rangeds can take a lot of aoe in the tooth (and then aren't so much safer than melee), and are doing way way less damage with autoshot. And the more time you take to kill monsters, the more damage your tank will take. Suzume is a monster (she is dealing at least 40% more damage than anyone in the game), and if a mob is attacking someone in melee, they won't switch to another character, even in melee (so you just have to make her coming a bit after your tank). So she is really speeding up things and is safe enough if you know what you are doing.

Originally Posted by Hentaika

And considering that unlike DMM games, the western content does not have further releases, which you can just translate - the content will develop either REALLY slow or won't develop at all, so not much point telling that is still in 'starter' mode. Phantasma is the closest we got to getting a decent western game(developer wise, at least), but even it has worse balance than any of DMM games and less content, but at least it has some potential.

Phantasma is bullshit (They have no fucking idea of how to design a game, no good writing, nothing redeeming actually). Also, even if I dropped the game (for several reasons), the true decent western game out on nutaku is Harem Heroes. Lot of contents developped, and has lot of success on Nutaku.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Are you sure about that? Looking at the trophies seems to indicate there's hard mode campaigns. Does anyone know if they're available after clearing stage 60?

There is. The first stage in hard destroyed me haha.

Rewards are much better (and blue items can drop everywhere).

Originally Posted by Keyen

Several mistakes here:


The stage 60 is only the first half. You unlock the hard mode, and get 60 more stages afterward. Also, the legendary drop rate is 100%, not 1%.


Suzume is great. She is less tanky than Helen for sure, but she can tank a bit (better than casters), and deals tons of damage. When you are dealing with archer, you are very happy to kill them fast enough. Something you can't do with 3 casters.


I 3* everything but 5 stages (including 3 bosses stages) in normal with 2 melees (despite 4 ranged available in my team). Your reasonning has a major flaw: Rangeds can take a lot of aoe in the tooth (and then aren't so much safer than melee), and are doing way way less damage with autoshot. And the more time you take to kill monsters, the more damage your tank will take. Suzume is a monster (she is dealing at least 40% more damage than anyone in the game), and if a mob is attacking someone in melee, they won't switch to another character, even in melee (so you just have to make her coming a bit after your tank). So she is really speeding up things and is safe enough if you know what you are doing.


Phantasma is bullshit (They have no fucking idea of how to design a game, no good writing, nothing redeeming actually). Also, even if I dropped the game (for several reasons), the true decent western game out on nutaku is Harem Heroes. Lot of contents developped, and has lot of success on Nutaku.


There is. The first stage in hard destroyed me haha.

Rewards are much better (and blue items can drop everywhere).

Well, the chance it tells is 1% for legendary drop.. so either they made the message show wrong or it's 100% the first time or idk, maybe a bug if it's 100% for you? As I told - didn't beat 60 yet, but if it's 100% chance to drop legendary, even if it's once/day, it sounds insane(it should upgrade/sell for a lot, I presume, considering how rares work)

Also I can't see how you didn't 3 star lvl 40 or 50 and managed to 3 star so much of everything else without you being at the wrong here... boss stages are SO MUCH EASIER than the simple stage 3 star if you play like me(2 ranged, 1 melee and 1 nothing, would pick another ranged if possible)

Simple stages of 50+ just outvalue you with everyone using an ability which in summ just deals enough to kill at least 1 even if you dodge everything. Bosses on the other hand only have a decently strong auto attack and 1 shot ability, which is super easy to dodge.. boss will never, ever hit your ranged with his ability and will also never. And if you are very skilled - with just 1 melee tank he won't ever auto attack your melee as well.
Don't forget that picking someone up - means projectiles will disappear eventually and you are invulnerable during it even vs melee skills as long as they finish during the time you hold the hero.
So even though as you said - 2 melee may be worth it(as I told, I rushed stages with 2 melee just to make it in time for 2 stars at least - that of course meant that it's faster, but the probability of someone dying was extremely high).. I might be wrong because I never actually had chance to use 3rd ranged and it might be actually better to have 2 ranged/1 melee, to lessen the possible misclick chance and make it faster to dodge the aoes, but who knows. Of course when I speak about ranged heroes, I mean the ones that can both heal and be bulkier than melee non tank dps(healer is great class until hard mode at least because you get some good blue gear for it in boss stages)

For me boss stage are mostly about reaching boss fast enough and without deaths to deal enough dmg to it with just 2 ranged, because your melee will be on 'hold' 90% of the time. Overall boss fight goes approximately: melee approaches boss - before boss attacks you hold him up and wait until boss starts moving towards ranged - the exact moment it happens you drop her and when boss engages melee - repeat. This is a safe way to do it, if you can handle like 5 boss basic attacks or so and have decent healer then you can tank simple attacks and only use hold strategy on the skill the boss uses(it's always a long cast time, so you won't mistake it for anything else)

And yeah, I must apologise, I completely forgot about harem heroes somehow, and yes, it's quite good, but I also dropped it mostly because of missing quite a lot of good stuff in it so many times.