Xenny offers her advice and can guide the player at any time during play! It'll be a huge overhaul of the help system.

When I began Crystal Duel in November 2023 I knew it would flop. It began as a really basic CCG game and I was trying new things with a side project I was unsure of. Over the course of 6 months there's been real evolution of the project. It doesn't do so well here on Itch.io. 0 plays since the last update, it's doing great! Although any new game needs time to grow and develop and hopefully gain a few players who really enjoy the game. I'm really diving in to something really different to give the game possibly what it really needs, a story!

After speaking with Clara and having some conversations Clara has become more friendly *At least a bit more friendly*

The story of Crystal Duel is an open book. You can just choose to play and duel just for the challenge, or you can get to know the duelists and possibly find a path of stories that open up through conversations and choices you make! Right now I'm working on a few of these stories which open up in the game. Each character will have their own dialogues and there can be multiple choices and multiple replies and random variations! Some things will be unexpected and I'm really looking forward to seeing how this new style of story will push the project. 

There are options to choose as a reply to messages during conversations to trigger new paths.

I really think this games great and hope others will and so I push it even though it's a real tough challenge. It took a lot of work and learning to get it looking and playing the way it does! The story element will be rewarding, characters that you speak with will remember things and without going down the AI route. Every bit of story and it's paths is all from my own imagination and writing *Probably why the games tanking* The conversations so far are shaping up to be the sweetest addition to the game since Gifox! That little ninja is cool!

The conversation with Clara opened up a new interaction with Alexon and this opened up the story further. 

This is all I have for now! Please let me know what you think of it all! A Visual Novel / RPG Style CCG game sounds pretty damn good! I loved the original Pokemon Card battle game on the game boy and sad to see it didn't come back! This may fill the void! I appreciate any comments and pleeeeeease check out the game on the page. The story features are not in just yet, and will be arriving at sometime in the next week or so!