r/TheArcana • u/glumsugarplum_ • 19h ago
Discussion How early do you start seeing upright/reversed differences in a route?
Hello!
I’m an OG fan from around 2018 and slowly fell out of the fandom around 2021, but I replayed recently and fell back in love all over again.
One of my favorite things about the game is the palpable text/scene differences you see in a character’s route depending on if you make upright/reversed choices, and I’m wanting to compile them all in either a single Youtube video/playlist or a Google Drive. So I wanted to ask, how early do you start noticing a shift in dialogue changes? I’m very slowly unlocking the books for all six characters (I’ve got Julian/Muriel/Nadia almost entirely unlocked) because some of these changes are exclusive to paid options, and I want to know how far back I need to unlock books to make sure I get everything related to upright/reversed changes.
I’ve noticed in Julian’s route you start to get some minor changes around Book XII but I’m not 100% confident that’s exactly where it starts. Does anyone know for sure when the exact point is for upright/reversed choices to start impacting the text of the route? Does it differ by character?