EraBlueResort

EraBlueResort
Genre: Date sim, turn battler and managment game
Developer(s): ???
Current Version: 0.042
Translation Status: Active.
[Contributors]
Japanese branch
Repository link
Latest translated build.
Japanese wiki.

Synopsis

A GranBlueFantasy themed era game with dungeon crawling, resort management, and sexual training.

You are the contractor of the primal being 「era」 - the one who governs lust and pleasure. You were ordered to gather ZP, a nearly omnipotent energy produced by orgasms, and allowed to do whatever you like in order to further that goal. Let's develop the island into a resort by gathering people together, and make them cum to collect ZP.

Gameplay

Your main goal is to expand your resort's popularity. To achieve it, you want to expand your resort, increase your resort's popularity, and clear dungeons which are key to the main story's progression. These means require you, mostly, to make money (Rupies) and improve your relationship with the characters residing in your resort.
To improve your relationship with the characters, you can talk to them, and serve them tea, until their "Bound: Friend" value increases, then have more intimate interactions with them. In the long run, you'll be able to drink together with them, massage them, have sex, date with them, have them become your lover or your sex friend, give them new fetishes, and more.

Quick Q&A

• "Characters always refuse sex the first time I ask them, even when all their stats are maxed. Is it normal?" > Yes, it is normal. I believe there won't be as big of a stat loss when asking for sex, with a character who's almost ready to accept. Also, any points you had when asking for sex will help making this command more effective the next time you try. Do take time to increase again the characters' stats, as there will be a penalty to most aspects of your relationship with them, in case of refusal.
  
• "I can't get this character to have sex with me, she always refuses, I don't understand why." > perhaps you are attempting this with a character that has the talent [Can't fall] or [No sex friends]. These characters will always refuse these interactions, as long as they have this trait. Hint: keep increasing your relationship with them, and you will unlock a solution to remove these negative character traits. Do note that the [No sex friends] characters will accept sex if you love them enough to commit to a love relationship with them, and [Confess] to them.
  
• "Can I get immediately the character I want?" > Yes! In the sleep menu, go to [Advertise the Resort] and select [Suite free invitation]. You get one invite for free at the start of the game, then it will cost 20 000 rupies for each invitation. Select any Granblue character you want, you can sort them by image count or fetishes if you wish. They will arrive in your island at the beginning of the day once you press [Wake-up] in the sleep menu. This way, you won't have to rely on RNG.
  
• "My resort's popularity is caped? Why?" > Popularity caps are removed when you progress through the game's main story. Perhaps there are dungeons you have not cleared yet? Or facilities you have not expanded?
  
• "Characters I like are going to leave my island in a few days. How do I keep them around longer?" > While all characters will inhabit your island, initially, for a short period of about 6 days, you can employ them. For 1 000 rupies a day, then 2 000 rupies a day if you hire them a second time to unlock more productive work for them (and deciding their outfits), the characters you befriended and hired will live indefinitely in your resort, near you. To hire a character, you must first be enough of a friend to them, by increasing their [Bound: Friend] value.
  
• "I want my Touhou characters. Where are they?" > They are in this game. To have access to them and other cross-over characters from other franchises, you must clear one of the first dungeons, I believe "Nameless Ruins". Explore each parts of the dungeon until you find some weird gate. Once you beat the dungeon, you'll unlock through events the ability in the [ZP Shop] to [Add special characters to the invitation list] for 50k ZP each. Series include Final Fantasy, Taimanin, Idolmaster, Touhou, Type-Moon, pokemon, Attack on Titan, Frieren, and many more.
  
• "But... I don't see Patchouli in the list?" > A few Touhou characters appearing in Touhou 06 - EoSD will be unlocked after completing their special scenario. Just under [Add special characters to the invitation list], you can [Unlock special scenarios] to unlock the [Gensokyo - Scarlet Devil Incident] dungeon. Hint: It's okay to wait and be at a much higher level than level 16 before clearing this dungeon. Remilia in particular will be a very tough fight because she has strong buffs she can apply to herself, and she regenerates her HP every turn. She will also cast a powerful AoE nuke at some point. I would strongly advise using a character able to remove buffs in your team. I used "Vikala (Rin)" as a dodge tank, for her special ability [Rodent Rhythm] removing buffs on enemies if she dodges an attack. Few other characters have the ability to remove buffs, or increase your characters' accuracy sufficiently, search for them wisely.
  
• "How do I get whereabout sense, and other useful QoL?" > You can buy them for a few ZP in [ZP Shop] > [Obtain a special ability].
  
• "How do I get ZP?" > Make characters orgasm, and generally have sex with them. The more pleasure they get, the more ZP they generate. ZPs may be difficult to have in the very beginning, you soon will be acquiring a high quantity of ZP without necessarily thinking about it once you get at least one character as a [Sex Friend] or [Lover], so feel free to spend your points. It seems easier to have a loving relationship than a sex friends one, but you can only choose a limited amount of Lovers (which you can increase by spending high amounts of ZP) so be careful.
  

Resort Expansion

Expand your resort can be done using the [Business Plan] at the sleep menu, and requires money. With [Facility Renovation] and [Large-Scale Area Construction], you can renovate different parts of the resort to unlock new interactions, increase your daily income, and your resort's popularity in the long run. Renovating some facilities may increase the different spots and locations existing in your resort, that you and other characters can travel to on the map. Here are examples of things you can renovate, and some notable things they will unlock:

• Renovate the recreation room, to enable alcohol drinking and the interactions related to it. You can also play tennis, and later on expand it further to add a library, which will enable you to give new fetishes to characters.
  
• Renovate your home, to be able to cohabit with some of your most trusted followers. This, in turn, enables you to buy in the "Mail order" some house items, like the "Massage mat" for 10 000 rupies, which enables you to give followers massages if you can bring them to your own room. Or the "Drink Cellar" for 50 000 Rupies, which enables drinking in your home.
  
• Renovate the garden, to enable camping and later expanding the training ground, which enables training other characters. This will provide exp to characters you may not have used in battle, up to a maximum of your current highest level character. Characters may want to sleep outdoors together and camp, also.
  
• Renovate the hot spring, facilitating your ability to peek at characters bathing, unlocking rooms to give massages to characters, and later improving the quality of the baths to restore more stamina at the end of the day, for all characters.
  
• "I tried "hire specific employee" in [Employee settings], and it gave me a random mob character as an employee?" > Yes. Maybe this will change in the future, I don't know, but for now I would advise against using this command. Instead, once you hired an employee, continue to deepen your relationship with them, then you'll be able to hire them for 2 000 rupies a day instead of 1 000, which enables their presence in this menu and will make them live in the "Employee rooms" of your resort. Initially, you have 2 rooms, but you can expand them for a relatively low initial cost, which will increase for each subsequent purchase.
  

Dungeons

With the [Go exploring] option in the sleep menu, you can run a [Quick exploration] for some rupies, a [Dungeon Exploration] or manage the [Auto Exploration Setup], letting your most trustworthy employees acquire good EXP and fetch a few items for you at the end of the day.
Dungeons are an important part of your progression. They may enable you to renovate your facilities, and expand your island. They may also unlock new functionalities, shops, and characters in the game.
To progress in a dungeon, you must for a party in [Exploration Setup]. You can use up to 4 of your employees in your party, and have them fight for you in a dungeon. You can also add a sub-member who will gain passively exp, but this option may only be available after unlocking further enhancements (vehicles and weapons). Depending on your choices when starting the game, you may have been offered pre-made setups of characters to choose from, to start your journey. Else, you may only have had one free direct invitation, usable in [Advertise the resort].

If you don't know what team to make, here's a suggestion using characters with high image count and voluptuous shapes:
1. Magisa, as an AoE mage and DPS, anchor of your team. Her ability Wall will also protect your team against debuffs.
2. Raziel, as a single-target DPS able to bypass defense stats.
3. Anthuria, as a dodge tank, thanks to her skill "Attract Dance".(Any other character with Attract Dance can replace her).
4. Shizuku Oikawa, unlockable from Idolmaster after clearing the lvl 8 dungeon "Nameless Ruins", for 50k ZP in the ZP shop. Shizuku serves as an off-tank, her passive giving a few milk bottles as items for you team to heal 50% of your hp is quite useful to spend less money on potions. She will also give an item that enables you to use 3 items in a single turn, which can be quite lifesaving. Her skills enable her to deal consistent dmg, have some AoE, and heal herself back up. While also being able to get the CA gauge filled up reliably through item use (using the milk bottles on her during battle refills her CA gauge for 50%). This is the core team I've used.
Dodge tanks in this game can be pretty strong, especially for an aggressive strategy. If you'd rather use more bulky characters with more defensive skills, consider having a dedicated healer. While she is very MP hungry, Galleon can be a strong choice for example, both to fight-off debuffs and deal high damage.
As you progress through the game, you'll be able to build vehicles and attach weapons to them. It's easy to miss how to use them: these can be equipped in [Exploration Setup] once crafted, and used next to the [item] during battles, once every few turns or possibly every turn. A turn being a complete rotation of all characters' actions, meaning if the battle starts with Magisa attacking, the next turn will begin once it's Magisa's time to attack again.

At some point, the game's events will tell you to build a relationship with an elemental primal, to progress in the story and unlock renovations for the resort. The actual condition at present, is to clear the three dungeons these quests unlock: [Valtz Underground Factory] (lvl 12), [Ancient Deep-Sea Battlefield] (lvl 14), and [Windy Valley Path] lvl 17. You may want to use different elements and characters for these dungeons, or keep using the same characters but equipping elemental earrings most appropriate for the fights. For example, using Fire earrings to clear the Windy Valley Path.

Massages

Massages are one of the most fun parts of the game. You can give them to characters either by building a bath house (onsen), or by expanding your home and buying a "Massage Mat". Once a character has a friendly enough bond to you to enable to [Lead around] command, you'll be able to easily lead them back to your room, or the onsen, and start a massage.
Massages a great way to increase all of your bonds to a character. You'll be able to give, and as your relationship with them improves to receive, massages from characters. Once you [Start massage], you'll notice a [Reason:] and [Vigilance:] bar appearing. Use regular massages to drop their vigilance, then use more erotic massages to ease up their reason, until they are fully relaxed and stop having any objections to your touch.
From there, if a character would normally refuse penetration and sex, you will probably not be able to start such actions, unless you use a [Hozuki Incense] consumable, obtainable for 100k ZP at the shop. Doing actions to a character that they would normally not agree to may increase their [hate] towards you for the day. If it goes above 3, it may reduce greatly their bonds to you, i.e all of their stats.