#trial5

In Mystic Square trial version, if you tried to return to the main menu while having the "Beep" S.E. as your main sound effect, the game would glitch (the video doesn't show it, but even if you Quit and reopen the game, it would still be glitchy like this).

To get rid of this, you can guide yourself through the bottom right text in order to get into the Option menu and select either "FM" or "off" as your sound effect, then starting the stage in order for the effect to update.

With what felt like less time than you actually had, the announcement for everyone to report to the trial room booms through the ship. You reluctantly teeter over to the elevator and fill the space inside.

8 of you stand in a spacious elevator, grouped off into obvious pairs or trios, standing by for support. The elevator begins rising in a smooth fashion, you hardly feel it at all. The trial room floor is punctuated by a small ding, and you exit out, separating to your podiums.

Monokuma greets you with a smile.

“So, one of you wants to become a god, huh? Though… after everything you did, maybe a demon would be a better descriptor. I mean yikes. I know I requested something creative… And you certainly performed well enough but who coulda dreamed up this shit?”

Monomi sits to the side, back to giving Monokuma the silent treatment. That didn’t last long, did it.

“Anyway, you know how it is. Find who dunnit… or don’t. You guys don’t seem to care too much about finding the actual culprit, so… Just do whatever you want I guess. Someone gets executed either way.” His eye glares a bit before he turns to face the camera.

In Mystic Square you can choose between "FM", "Beep" and "off" as sound effects.

In the trial version, when you selected one of these options, the change would not take place immediately, you'll still hear the previous effect. In order for the sound effect to update, you'd have to either start the stage or use the Quit menu option and restart the game (I've tried to close the window from the X button and it didn't save the setting, I had to specifically exit through Quit).

If you play as usual on Normal/Hard/Lunatic difficulties and you start with 3 or less lives, the 'Clear Bonus!!' screen will not contain any penalties. The difficulty bonus will be shown in green.

This post will contain references from both trial and full version. The trial version screen is similar to the one from Lotus Land Story full version, excepting that the 'POINT Bonus' is now written with Japanese symbols and there is no 'Bomb Extend ! !' at the end of the stage. In the full version, the 'POWER x 50' bonus does not exist anymore and the position of the point bonus is shifted (now also having an '×' before it).

If you start with more than 3 lives, a corresponding penalty will be added. The more lives you start with, the greater the penalty. Similarly, if you Continue, a corresponding penalty will be added. The more times you Continue, the greater the penalty. Left side pictures are from the trial version, while the right side pictures are from the full version.

If you play on Easy, the difficulty bonus will be shown with red instead of green.

If you timeout the last attack of a boss, the difficulty bonus, the continue penalty (if existing) and the life penalty (if existing) are replaced by a failure multiplier of '× 0.0’ ('Failed to exterminate evil spirit boss’).

Compared to Lotus Land Story's trial where you got the 'Congratulation!!' at the end of stage 3, in Mystic Square's trial you just get a regular "Clear Bonus!!'. You can get the 'Congratulation!!' screen only in the full version, at the end of stage 6 or extra stage.

The 'Congratulation!!' screen has an 'ALL Clear' bonus instead of the 'STAGE Bonus' , a 'Lives remaining in stock' multiplier and a 'Total Point Item Bonus'.

Additional bonuses are awarded in the full version for 'No miss' and 'No bomb'. You can get those at the end of any stage. If you die, you will not get the 'No bomb' even if you did not use any bomb. But if you use a bomb and not die, you will get the 'No miss' bonus.

If you start with more than 3 lives, you will not get the 'Total Point Item Bonus', the row will be replaced by the life penalty. At the date of writing this post (19-Jan-2024) I'm not sure if that text is just overwritten or actually the bonus is not awarded at all. Also, if you continue, you will not get the 'No miss' and 'No bomb' bonus, but you will get the 'Total Point Item Bonus'.

Timeouting does not impact the 'No miss', 'No bomb' or 'Total Point Item Bonus'.