IMAE Guardian Girl - Rogue-like action adventure

A girl who trades her memories for immortality loses fragments of her past each time she falls asleep.

Discover pieces of her recollections with the help of the spirit Dambi, and journey towards the Moon Garden in search of the truth. This narrative unfolds today, in an endless loop...

Is it accurate to say that today is eternal, if yesterday has already slipped away?

《IMAE Guardian Girl》 is a survival rogue-like action game featuring a female protagonist. Collect Memory Fragments and embark on an exhilarating quest to the Moon Garden. Your strength grows as you defeat more monsters. All records of your adventures are preserved as Memory Fragments. Experience the excitement of fierce battles in the boundless Moon Garden!

● Engage in training to acquire Memory Fragments

You can enhance your character’s abilities through training. Initially, you'll have just one skill, but as you progressively improve your capabilities, you’ll be able to vanquish dozens or even hundreds of foes in a single blow. Every game record gets stored as Memory Fragments. The active skills, passive skills, and equipment effects are also retained in these Memory Fragments, allowing you to fully relish the benefits of your training!

● Discover your unique skill combinations

Skills fall into two categories: active and passive. You can earn up to six active skills that allow you to strike enemies directly, alongside a choice of passive skills that heighten the excitement of combat. Your fighting style is entirely dependent on your adventurer instincts. Which attack proves to be more effective: melee or ranged? With each selection of skills, a new battle story unfolds. Savor the rush of obtaining additional effects while upgrading your skills.

● Equip various weapons and armor

Utilize attack skills along with special skills linked to your gear. Every weapon, ranging from Common to Mythic, possesses one attack skill. By examining the rank effect, you can determine which elements enhance your offensive power. Moreover, armor comes with its own special skills—some can absorb all experience points or utterly annihilate foes! Make use of these abilities whenever you require assistance.

● Push your limits in the Moon Garden

Enter the Moon Garden armed with Memory Fragments that encapsulate your training achievements. Once inside, there's no need to gather experience points; this signifies your readiness for battle. Take down all the monsters that appear in groups. The greater the number of Eliminations, the better your rewards will be. To thrive for a longer duration, you must devise a strategy appropriate for an adventurer. If you’re not satisfied with your progress, consider challenging yourself again with different Memory Fragments.

● Enjoy more with the Season System

The Moon Garden operates on a seasonal basis. Everyone is welcome to compete freely, with rewards distributed based on rankings at the end of each season. Final standings depend on the total points accrued over the course of a season. Titles will be awarded corresponding to ranks achieved. Additionally, there are exclusive titles and special rewards available! Don’t feel discouraged if you don’t reach your desired rank. Remember the unique effects that shift with every season because opportunities always belong to the determined adventurer!

Guide

Gameplay

The gameplay in IMAE Guardian Girl is really simple. Use the circle joystick on the left-hand side of your screen to run around the map, while avoiding the numerous monsters trying to attack you.

Your attack will be automatic, there is no icon on the screen to shoot. Monsters will appear in waves and if they touch you, you will lose health, and eventually die.

Additional items will become available during gameplay that will help you survive.

During gameplay, IMAE power replenishment icons will be displayed on your screen. These look like blue flames with eyes and will break if you continuously strike them. Running over it will replenish your IMAE power.

You are also able to replenish your IMAE power by tapping on the right-hand-side corner of your screen when you are running low, this will forfeit the buff, however, as you can only do this while the buff pop-up screen is displayed.

If your IMAE power has run out and you choose a skill, the failure rate will be displayed on the left-hand side of the pop-up screen. See the image below:

Small piles of blue dust will be dropped by monsters you have defeated; these will give you 3 buffs to choose from during gameplay, such as reduced cooldown speed for your skill, various attack modes, and speed increase. There are numerous buffs available to choose from.

When choosing buffs, it is important to take into account the type of weapon you have equipped. The more shots you are able to fire at once, the better your character will be able to survive the ongoing waves of monsters.

During IMAE Guardian Girl gameplay, use your secondary skill to help you throughout the game. This icon is displayed on the right-hand side of your screen while in you are in the attack zones.

As the waves of monsters increase, they become harder to defeat, and it will require you to choose buffs that have significant damage increases for your character.

On the Flourish map, a circle can be seen in the middle of the screen as indicated in the image below:

Photo: Wondersquad

You are able to stand on this circle after defeating a certain number of monsters; this will increase gameplay speed and monsters will attack in earnest.

Be warned though, you should ensure you have the necessary weapons and buffs for this feature, as the monsters are ruthless!

Lanterns appear on the map at random and breaking these will give you health. A clock will give you more time if you pick it up. The clock drops after defeating certain monsters as well.

A sun icon, when destroyed, summons the next wave of monsters immediately.

Take note of red circles or lines that appear on the ground, these circles will deal significant damage to your character if you are standing in the circle.

These circles are most likely to appear when there is a big boss on the map, or monsters that are harder to kill. When a boss appears, the music playing will change and can be used as an indicator of when they appear.

When you reach level 3, the shop feature becomes available, as well as the summon feature. Level 5 opens the Moon Garden.

The Moon Garden enables you to choose a memory fragment that you have activated throughout the game; memory fragments are acquired by playing the Flourish map.

As you choose your buffs on a level, the game automatically saves the buffs as a memory fragment.

Moon Garden is not for the faint-hearted, wave upon wave of monsters will attack, and you will not be able to choose buffs during this gameplay.

Abyss of Paradoxes is similar to the Flourish map. There are 12 levels that will give you various rewards once you have completed the level.

You will be able to choose buffs and try and survive. The difference is the time limit required to vanquish the monsters. Each level has a time limit and if you are not able to complete the level in the allotted time given, you will not receive any rewards.

Flourish Map requires sun stone currency to play, you can obtain this by waiting for the timer or refilling with Elixer earned from completing quests or you can also use Jade pieces to buy an entrance.

Moon garden requires a moon to enter, you can also use Jade pieces to buy extra moons.

Abyss of Paradoxes requires keys to play, and you can also use Jade pieces to buy additional keys.

The practice mode is completely free to play and Is a good way to test your skills if you are unfamiliar with the game in the beginning.