[games] Doukutsu Monogatari follow-up

I take it back; the thing you have to do to trigger the quest that gets you the best ending is completely obscure-- depending on what path you've taken to the point where it happens, it's either easy but not something one would ever do naturally, or nearly impossible. It goes back to being fair after that, though. The rest of the game is so sharply designed that I assume this is intentional.

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Roughly two years ago, my German subletter watched S__ and I throwing bizarre garments and pieces of hardware into bags for a week, patiently listening to us chatter about our plans, until he could not contain his bafflement any longer, and asked,

"So... vhy do you need all zese clothes to go to Birmingham?"

To those who celebrate it around now, happy new year.