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While there’s not much of a set school curriculum inThe Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, you’ll still notice that Takumi has a report card that you can check out on the pause menu, tracking his progress across five core classes, each with two themes that contribute to the class.
By raising your grades in Last Defense Academy - which you’ll do by hanging out with your teammates - you can not only upgrade your attacks and abilities even further than before, but you might even gain access to some additional options while out on expeditions past the Undying Flames.
Why Do You Have A Report Card?
If you’ve been using the pause menu to navigate through the map or manually save your game between auto-saves at story-critical moments, then you’ll have noticed that Takumi is the only student at the Last Defense Academy who has a Report Card to manage, which tracksfive school subjectsthat breaks down intotwo sub-categorieseach. There are ten topics spread across these five subjects on your Last Defense Academy report card.
On the whole, you’ll see Takumi raising points for the sub-categories, each of which lead to him improving in that specific subject. While you’ll be gaining all your experience that leads to raising your grades by improving the two sub-categories within each one, the game will require to you raise specific subject grades before being allowed to make certain improvements.
Why Do You Need To Raise Your Grades?
There are a couple reasons you’ll want to spend some time focusing on Takumi’s grades in Last Defense Academy, not least of which is that you’ll need toraise grades to enable better power-upsfor your teammates when you boost everyone’s Class Weapons up in the Training Room. The initial levels for everyone are relatively low, but as the game goes on, you’ll need to increase your grades in certain subjects before being allowed tolevel up a teammate’s weapon.
You’ll see a report card in the bottom left corner of the upgrade screen for each character, detailing which grades you need in which subjects to upgrade their Class Weapon.
Additionally, while you’re out onexpeditionsbeyond the Undying Flames searching for resources and the items you’ll need to make your assorted presentsback at school, you’ll sporadically come acrosschance card options with skill checksrelated to Takumi’s grades. For example, you’ll find some that offer you the chance to escape a perilous obstacle if you have a high enough Mobility grade under the Gym category on the report card.
How To Raise Your Grades
Hang Out With Teammates, With Or Without Gifts
You’ll find your classmates spread outaround the school during your Free Time, and when you see ateammate on the map with a green iconduring a Free Time segments, it means they’re willing to spend that chunk of Free Time with you. You’ll have the option totalk to that teammatewhen you go find them where they are on campus, and talking to them consumes your whole Free Time slot. That said, it does so in exchange forboosting one or two gradeson your report card.
By default, spending time with your teammates in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy will award you withsix pointsin total, but how they’re allocated depends on how many subjects that teammate will help you increase. Some teammates only lend to a single subject, like Darumi with Creativity, so all six points will go to the singular subject. If you spend time with someone like Hiruko instead, though, who offers Analytics and Calculation insights, you’ll see the six points split with three added to both subjects.
Giving a teammate a present they like out of the Gift-o-Matic will offer a vastly higher point payout than just hanging out with them - if you have the materials, spend the time making and giving gifts instead of just chatting. You can see a log of everyone’s favorite gifts in the section of their information in the main menu where Takumi has his report card - everyone but him has a list of preferred gifts in this tab instead of grades.
With so many decisive personalities in the group, you likely won’t be too surprised to see thatteammates help with subjects related to their character, so even if you don’t know quite yet what someone will offer points towards, you’ll likely be able to take a good guess. Consider which teammates lend to which of your unique abilities, and rely on them to help you in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy to improve. For example, being someone macho who rides a motorcyle, it’s no surprise Takemaru helps with your Gym grades, right?
After the second Commander battle on Day 017, you’ll gain access to theschool’s Librarybeginning during the announcements onDay 019, with your first access to it when Takumi wakes up on Day 020. With the Library unlocked, Takumi canread books to raise a specific grade, sharpshooting which branch of it he’d like to work on.
Each book requirestwo Free Time segments to readbefore it’s finished, offering a massive boost to the noted grade when completed. you may read the same books again a second time, but the returns are diminishing, so choose wisely. Plenty of the information will be redacted, but these books are rife with plenty of lore about the outside world if you’re curious.
