Memory of Goddess (MOG) Mini-Game Guide – Updated + Challenge Mode

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1. this is just holocure but goddess instead

   • Hologoddess. Okayu is canonically there

   • Did you say Vampire Survivors? 😄

   • I wish MOG also has collab weapons like in Holocure. LOL

2. Boomerang is balanced.

3. Land mine for me is great! At level 5 it can out pace Boomerang or Reflectors. If you have all three, >u<. Drops 7-8 mines that explode 8-way.
   My go to weapons (playing as Scarlet): Sword, Reflector, Boomerang, Land Mine, Modified rifle, and tac rifle.
   Favorite Modules: Pick up range, projectile speed, projectile size.

   • I agree land mine is great, although I put it as second just under boomerang.

     I am not sure if I consider energy sword better than energy field since the later is always on and the range is pretty good at L5 (the L5 sword seems to gain attack speed but lose range from L4?).

     I am not sure if I ever got the Chakram to L5, but I know that at lower level, it does far too little damage and the pierce doesn’t make up for it. Likewise, I wasn’t all that impressed by the Reflector at lower level compared to some other weapons at the same level. Perhaps it scales well, I guess I will need to give it another shot.

     If you have Boomerang and Land Mine to L5, you can basically sit there and do nothing outside the boss battles and Challenge Stage. Actually, chances are you can sit there and do nothing if you have either at L5. I wasn’t able pull the boomerang the first time I played Simulation Room II, but a combination of Land Mine, and Energy Shield, RL and a bunch of other random powerups were enough to break through the boss encirclement. Although it is definitely easier if you can have Boomerang + Land Mine + Energy Shield / Sword / both. It also help to have some movement speed up so that you can squeeze through any gap you manage to break past during the encirclement phase.

     • for the reflector to be more effective you need to play in phone resolution because it bounces of walls and smaller walls means more bounces

   • I’ll give Land mine a more proper look, thanks!

   • I am posting a slight update of opinion about the Land Mine. While yes they do amazing damage, their best strength is parameter defense. In the regular stages you can get by with this, but in challenge, it is harder due to moving.
     For speculation though, does the energy field deal dmg to enemies within the field after it has gotten big and what seems to be the rate of damage it does to enemies?

4. Going to throw my hat in for Beam Chakram. It is one that gets NOTICEABLY godlike at rank 5, especially if you don’t have a ton of pierce. At low ranks it’s…. well, terrible. But at 4 and 5 it is just like a quadruple sized Energy Shield. I got it once nearly by accident, and have hunted it down ever since then.

   Landmine at high ranks is also great, but a bit too RNG for my tastes. But yeah, i’ve passed by reflector before, because i didn’t realize it got that OP. Boomerang is great though. Thanks for the ideas; I know what I’ll be aiming for in the future.

   Though I’m surprised you didn’t mention the speed upgrades much. I’d take 2-3 levels of a speed upgrade over ANY of the offensive ones every time. Bullet speed seems super weak, size is too niche. I guess if you have max reflector and boomerang you don’t need to run much? I always felt speed was super vital, but I guess that’s because i need to dodge like the loser I am lol.

   • I did more testing with the Chakram and I stand that it’s not great among pierce weapons. Compared to the Energy Field it has more range, but at the cost of not being “always on”. That said, I am also downgrading my view on the Energy field (it damage rate is rather low, so it’s more like a final line of defence for enemies that manage to get that close).

     My view on the Reflector on the other hand has improved significantly. Compared to the boomerang (and probably landmine), it covers more of the screen because it can bounce the corners (the boomerang cover a radius limited by the height of the screen). But since it covers more area, it needs to travel more, so it benefits most from projectile speed up and size up. Also, mobs don’t really spawn from the corners, but in a radius, so in practice, the boomerang cover the most important area, and I think that is why I don’t find a L5 reflector outdamage a L5 boomerang even after stacking other buff (they are pretty tied).

     Given that I would still pick the boomerang (and landmine) over the reflector when I need to pick one early on simply because the other two are usable much sooner. Though eventually you would want to max those three for sure if you can.

   • About the speed increase, I totally agree in Simulation II , Challenge Stage and maybe when playing Rapunzel or you somehow didn’t manage to get any decent weapon. But on most level you can just stand there and let your boomrerang/reflector/landmine do the work and they work even better with the buff.. Although size up can make it harder to see especially with the Dorothy upgrade: https://i.imgur.com/TmQaoiZ.jpg

     Re: Boomerang vs Reflector: https://i.imgur.com/XSIR3rA.png

     Looks like even with all the projectile buff, the Boomerang still win with ease (by the time I upgraded the Reflector to L5 there was a 50k gap, but that gap did not narrow or stay the same by the end of the level. Boomerang kept extending the lead. On a side note, the Landmine almost match the Boomerang at L5, so I standby Boomerang > Landmine > Reflector. Also the reflector is kind of the worse for visibility IMO with maxed projectile size because their trajectory is the most random. Landmine is random by nature but it doesn’t block the view quite as bad.

5. nah chakram isn’t good
   my best strat so far is stack projectile size on dorothy,
   use her default for dps, pick up boom, sword, field, mine for cc
   but i still can’t beat challenge yet

6. weapons: 2 automatic weapon + chrakarm + scarlet sword o normal sword + boomerang is very op clear all stages.
   modules: instant repair + bullet speed and bullet size

   • Fyi the final boss is impossible, the minigame is broken. I gave up at 29846 kills.
     As for the upgrades, boomerang > mines > cubes > sword > everything else. You won’t be able to reach the boss unless you’re lucky to get the hp regen every 5 seconds. With the regen, after 15 min you can just stand still and afk and you’ll be fine, until 30 minutes. Even if you reach the boss, you can either dodge the boss pellets, or the mob pellets, but not both, and from there on it’s a slow death. If the boss only fired straight pellets it’d be possible, but once it starts throwing the sinusoidal ones your goose is cooked.

     I hope whoever designed this ridiculous boss stage stubs his toe, daily, for the rest of the year.

     • I agreed final boss is so bad and Challenge stage is not fun to play at all. How can I survive for 30 minutes when mobs do about million damage per hit

     • I’m pretty sure it was designed to be impossible, since the reward for clearing it is 1m credits and not anything we could use outside of the minigame like tickets, gems or materials.

7. Reflector >>>>>>> the rest

   • Then you SURELY haven’t tried boomerang

8. Has anyone beaten the challenge stage yet? I tried to but after 15 min the enemies stopped dropping stuff and they became way bigger and beefier so I got completely murdered

9. A warning from me: DO NOT KILL THE BOSS OUT OF THE MAP, this will make the box unreachable for you

   • I mean the mini-boss. I wish this site has edit comment function

10. This game is a joke when you can unlock Dorothy or Scarlet but challenge is non-sense hard
    If they want to copy Vampire Survivor or Holocure it’s fine but please make it good
    -Mob spawn too few so it’s take 100 years to level up
    -No evolve of weapon so many modules is useless (especially buff Def )
    -Boss spawn too few so you only get around 2-3 boxes

    • Did you just give up on this guide? The event has been out for a while and nothing past

      Challenge mode is a different animal to the rest of them.
      Speed is IMPERATIVE on this level as the mobs move real fast. Being able to walk circles around the horde is the only way to stay alive.

      I suggest using normal Red Hood and just purely upgrade move speed. Then when you can, upgrade move speed more. Hearts almost NEVER drop, so this is a survival mode. Avoiding the swarms and bullets is your primary concern, so the faster you move, the more survivability you have.

      • I did not give up I play until challenge stage and it was so annoy for playing so I stop for now

        I use Dorothy on challenge stage she is faster to clear mobs and boss for me (than Red Hood)
        but around 15-20 minutes mobs start to do huge damage so it’s too hard

        I think it’s fine if they didn’t drop heart on challenge quest but it’s should be more fun to play even fully upgrade still annoying to clear it all

        I kind of like game that similar to Vampire survivor I hope they add for permanent minigame later but I hope they fix annoying part

    • Sorry, don’t know why that replied to you, meant to just be a general reply to the article.

      • Oh don’t mind it lol.

11. movement speed + loot magnet is pure bliss

12. Most recent and best run so far with fully maxed Red Hood w/ 1.6x atk speed & 18 base atk: https://imgur.com/a/dj2XjUl
    I had some pretty bad luck on the modules though, projectile speed buff, projectile size buff, health buff, defence buff, pickup range buff and movement buff all at pretty low levels. I got two shot by Einkk at ~30:20 so I don’t think that the health, regen and defence modules are worth it as she does too much damage to tank or outheal.

    Going off this information, I think that a peak dps build might be the way to beat it (idk) which would entail:
    Projectile Speed
    Projectile Size
    Attack Speed
    Attack Damage
    Comprehensive Enhancement α & β

    I’ve only ever gotten the attack speed and damage modules once or twice in all my runs, including the missions leading up the the challenge mode so I’m not even sure that the above loadout is possible without a level up option reroll like in VS or Holocure.
    Not too sure about the weapons but as seen in the screenshot, I think my preferred build is quite good with boomerang and landmine being the best. Alongside this, I’ve never managed to reach a level above 39 in challenge mode, meaning that either my weapons will be maxed with weak modules or the other way around. Honestly not sure if it’s even possible to beat.

    • I don’t know why imgur thinks the screenshot of the damage screen is nsfw 💀💀💀. Here’s an alternative link: https://imgbox.com/nwLaXG6T

13. No love for grenades? Level 5 they are thrown in all directions, for basically a lilliweiss screen wipe every 1-2 seconds.

    • Probably because it’s weaker at lower levels? There’s just better weapons even at low levels like boomerang and energy sword

    • Grenades are good but they aren’t a priority pick like boomerang, reflector, and land mine. Grenade also NEEDS to be level 5 to be worth it, so its kind of just a wasted slot until you get it upgraded.

14. Is there any merit in trying to finish Challenge Stage? Already finished every other stage and while I did enjoy the other ones, Challenge Stage is ridiculously hard.

    • You need to survive in challenge stage for 480 ‘minutes’ in total for synchro slot unlock item might be one of most pain in the *** mission they ever made

      • Thankfully they brought that down to 240. Still a pain tho.

15. Challenge Mode being so pointlessly reliant on RNG for every aspect just to even have a chance of clearing it is absurd. Devs should’ve spent more time playing horde survivors to understand why the good games in the genre are so good.

16. Land Mine is ranked pretty high, huh? I used it quite a lot early on but sorta dropped it. I might try picking it up again for the Challenge Mode.

    I still have yet to clear the Challenge mode, which I don’t think I’m ever going to… So I settled on being the 3rd place of my Guild Rank at 10,737 points. The 1st place got 17,051 points – how do you even last that long?

    My setup is:

    Character – Scarlet

    Upgrade – Attack Speed
    – Projectile Size
    – ATK
    – Fleetly Fading Lv. 2
    – ATK
    – DEF
    – DEF
    – Projectile Size
    – Fleetly Fading Lv. 3
    – ATK
    – Projectile Size
    – ATK

    Weapons – Fleetly Fading
    – Boomerang
    – Reflector
    – Transformed Tactical Rifle
    – Beam Chakram
    – Energy Field

    Module (by priority) – ATK
    – Comprehensive Enhancement α
    – Comprehensive Enhancement β
    – Signal Amplification
    – Rapid Movement
    – Projectile Size
    – Instant Repair
    – Projectile Speed
    – DEF Enhancement
    – Energy Repair
    – HP Enhancement

    I could see that the Energy Field is apparently not very popular, but it’s pretty important for me earlier on, especially playing as Scarlet in the Challenge mode, as I need a constant AOE attack to mow down enemies to build up my EXP fast, so I can unlock better weapons asap.

    I also find the Transformed Tactical Rifle to be really good, as at level 5, it shoots outward in all directions and thus pair well with other AOE weapons. In fact, I used to use Red Hood so that I always have access to this weapon before switching to Scarlet because I prefer her upgrade path.

    So the way I approach the Challenge Mode with Scarlet is:

    – Gets the Energy Field to farm EXP as fast as I could
    – Gets the Signal Amplification to help with the EXP farming (it helps a ton when the RNG decides to be a d*ck and not giving you any Magnet.
    – Gets the Rapid Movement to further help with the EXP farming (but limits to LV. 2-3 at most)
    – Shifts priority to collecting weapons over modules
    – Focuses on levelling up Fleetly Fading, Boomerang, Reflector and Transformed Tactical Rifle to max level first, then on Beam Chakram and Energy Field
    – Shifts priority to modules
    – Focuses on levelling up offensive modules for maximum firepower and Projectile Size to cover more ground with AOE attacks (Reflector at max size is seriously OP, but is a double edged sword as it can also block your view amongst all the barrage of enemies and bullets)

    – When fighting the mini bosses, I find it easier to lure them to charge at you from the side, rather than from above or below, as it’s easier to dodge both the bosses’s bodies and their bullets. Try to use the special attack only once and kill the bosses with your normal attacks, then save the special attack to use on the enemies that will suddenly spawn and snipe you right after a mini boss is defeated.

    – Keep an eye on when the enemies upgrade themselves after a certain period of time has passed. I often got caught off guard by the swarm of fast moving Raptures that has been upgraded and has more health, so they managed to rushed through my AOE attacks when I didn’t back away enough in time.

    – Always leave the recovery items like the Heart and Lightning for later use. If there are multiple of them near to each other, then just stand between them and use that spot as your defend/survive point.

    – With enough upgrade on both weapons and modules and perhaps some recovery items nearby, just stand still and hope for the best against the oncoming horde. LOL

    – At a certain point, enemies will start shooting round bullets at you, but these bullets have a rather short range and usually dissipate just before they hit you, so just stand your ground rather than try to move away.

    – However, after some time has passed the number of bullets will increase, A LOT, and many will actually reach you now, so make only minimal movements, just enough to stay out of reach of the bullet before they dissipate or out of their trajectory, because if you move too much, you’d either run into other stray bullets or the surround enemies that manage to tank through your AOE attacks to come close enough.

    – Well, that’s it. I never got further than that. By that time, there were too many bullets for me to dodge, it’s just insane. XD

    • Just in case someone might want to know, those swarms of fast moving raptures will spawn every 15 seconds in challenge mode.

      • This is the timeline for rapture type appearances.

        1:00 Swarm types appear (15s)
        5:00 Swarm types increase in size (15s) and ranged types appear (20s), around 3-4 spawn.
        6:00 Only ranged types appear (20s), increase to around 5-6.
        8:00 Ranged types (20s) increase to around 10.
        9:00 Swarm types (15s) and ranged types (20s) appear together.
        10:00 Ranged types increase to around 15.
        11:00-12:00~ Ranged types surround you.

        After 15 minutes timeline doesn’t really matter since you’ll just be idle.

        At 5 minutes or less using burst can help with clearing swarm type raptures however after getting sufficient upgrades should not be a problem.

        Please do note that amount of raptures after the 10 minute mark may be inaccurate due to not being able to see them.

    • On the 6th upgrade slot, HP Up gives you more value than DEF up.
      Always go for attack speed or damage. Projectile size isn’t really worth it when you can just get the projectile size module in a run anyways, and Scarlet especially heavily benefits from attack speed.

      Beam Chakram is pretty dogshit. It’s decent in the early levels, but it does nothing for you in Challenge Stage.
      It just doesn’t scale well enough past the first couple of minutes, even at level 5 it barely does any damage. Transformed tactical rifle is OK but the regular tactical rifle is better, and neither should be priority picks and only take if you need them.

      Weapon priority is going to be;

      ABSOLUTE NECESSITY, JUST RESET IF YOU DON’T GET ALL 3: Boomerang >>>>> Land Mine > Reflector

      Good: Grenade (NEEDS level 5) > Energy Field (not much damage like Chakram, but its always on and more consistent) > Energy Sword > Tactical Rifle

      OK: Shotgun (by far best DPS for the “aimed” weapons, but aimed weapons become useless after the ~16 minute mark since you want to avoid moving as much as possible) > Rocket Launcher (needs level 5) > Transformed Tactical Rifle > Submachine Gun

      Avoid/reset run: Chakram > Missile >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sniper Rifle

      There’s also no point in getting Signal Application. That’s kind of just something you take if you have no other option. It helps a bit in the very early game but that’s about it. While sometimes you don’t get magnet spawns, you have infinite time to collect resource during the minibosses since mobs stop spawning. And after the second miniboss you’ll be getting plenty of magnets.
      Farming is pretty easy regardless as long as you have the right weapons, the hard part of challenge mode begins at the 15 minute mark. You want to try and get everything you can to make that portion not just easier, but possible at all. Don’t prioritize anything that only helps early on.

17. is it me or land eater is very tanky???

18. Challenge Mode Lasting 30 Minutes Checklist:
    0. Red Hood Max level, (my build is currently 1.3 attack speed, 22 attack)
    1. Boomerang Lv5
    2. Reflector Lv5
    3. Energy Shield or Energy Sword
    4. Projectile Size
    5. Projectile Speed

    the other weapons don’t really matter to get to 30 minutes but Landmine, Rocket Launcher are my choices if available.

    at 15 minutes stand next to a Lilith and AFK for 15 minutes. the red dots will never reach you. you either die from not enough damage or you don’t. when the boss spawns, use the Lilith and stand still a few seconds. gl hf for boss fight.

19. Several times I do the 30 min.

    Boomerang, reflector, sword, mine and energy field. all at lv 5.
    After that we prioritize the regen, speed and size of the attacks.
    Possibly take a pickup boost if you have bad luck with the magnets.
    Possibly take a boost speed if you have bad luck with draw.

    Character Re the hood, max lvl with priority, attack speed followed by power.

    After 15 minutes, there is no need to move, no more loot and logically the character manages on his own.
    After 18 minutes, we don’t move anymore otherwise we’ll get red balls.
    At 30 minutes, the boss appears and you inevitably die, because you cannot move or at least very little and it bones you.

    ( google translate of my French language )

20. NOPE. Can’t do it.

    I’ve looked up several guides and many videos (especially of those that managed to complete the Challenge altogether) and followed the steps to a tee, but the RNG wall is just impossible to get over.

    The most important thing in Challenge is the Instant Repair (HP Regen) which at Lv. 5 heals 3 HP per 2 seconds which will really help you to survive the bullet hell from around 17 minutes in, as well as the final boss fight. But the damn thing rarely drops and from hours and hours of playing, I only managed to get the Instant Repair just ONCE (actually, about 3-4 times if I include the total time I’ve played this game). Also, out of all the times I’ve got the drop, it never gave me more than one, so I’m always stuck with the Lv. 1 Instant Repair.

    And of course, the time I managed to get the Instant Repair, the weapon RNG was super trash and I either couldn’t level my weapons up enough or got unneeded weapons from the mini boss crates (which I’ve since avoided totally, unless my weapon slots are all filled up). So even with the regen, my attacks are not enough to whittle down the enemies.

    Without the regen, I tried upping my HP and DEF (alongside maxing out my weapons, of course) but it was still a no go. The bullet hell just became too intense that they ripped me to shreds after 20 minutes in, despite my best attempt to move ever so slightly to avoid the bullets without bumping into the enemies.

    So yeah, you’re really at the mercy of the RNG to give you that sweet Instant Repair drop along with enough weapons to max out their levels.

    In any case, if anyone is interested in the, supposedly, best guide for the Challenge mode, then here you go:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M9l6Eq5f9ZzQAChqHVbWVE49EnqrxnOWfj2VRXBzqnA/edit#gid=0

21. please guide me how to beat cinderella at simulation room stage level 2. Thank you

22. PREPARATION
    – Use Red Hood (also upgrade her as much as you can)
    – Pick weapons with homing capabilities, including Tactical Rifle and Rocket Launcher
    – Pick AOE weapons for the rest, preferably Boomerang, Reflector, Land Mine and Energy Sword
    – Although you can swap out any of the 4 AOE weapons for the Energy Field if you want to play it a little safe
    – Pick Rapid Movement module and upgrade it to Lv.3 or above
    – Pick any other modules you’d like but preferably ATK or Projectile Speed.

    BOSS FIGHT
    – Cinderella charges towards you pretty fast, so you need Rapid Movement to get away from her
    – Stay UNDER her, it’s easier to keep track of her position as well as your own
    – Stay as far away as you can from Cinderella but make sure you can still see her
    – Face towards Cinderella while she’s stationery and use Red Hood’s special attack when you can
    – If Cinderella starts to move, just keep running down and let the Tactical Rifle and Rocket Launcher do the work
    – Wait for Cinderella to stop and just use the special attack on her again.
    – Rinse and repeat until she’s defeated.

    NOTE
    – Cinderella will sometimes warp and send out multiple clones to attack you. If you have high level AOE weapons here, then there’s nothing to worry about. Just destroy all the clones and find where the real Cinderella is, stay under her and repeat the process above.

23. Quick tip: If you’re standing still in CM and still getting hit by bullets, make sure you’re on 60FPS. I was having issues where the bullets would hit me a LOT despite standing perfectly still after 15 minutes. Swapping to 60FPS fixed that.

24. nice guide, however, i don’t think i’ll be going for the 999k coins, it’s utterly useless to sink in THAT muchtime for such a meager reward. if that was 10 summoning tickets however, i’d do it. i’m just gonna stick to getting the 480 minutes reward and that’s it

25. Does anyone know how to unlock the attack upgrade module? It’s the last one I need but I can’t figure it out. I assume it has to do with legendary bullet on simulation room II but I’ve tried grabbing it with multiple characters and still haven’t gotten it.

    • It’s just a rare module to find unfortunately @sparse

      • Ah that’s really unfortunate, I’ve put over 4 hours into the challenge mode alone and played the normal stages a bunch and still haven’t gotten it. More rng is always lovely.

    • Just FYI, i’m already past the 240 minute one (doing 1-3 runs a day) and I barely got it YESTERDAY. And it’s the only time i’ve seen it since then too.

      It’s just super rare.

26. i’ve said it before, this is such a useless game mode, the RNG is utterly disgusting, ranging from ultra weapons and shitty mods, to ultra mods and shitty weapons. no good combo whatsoever happened throughout my plays.
    i have gotten the health upgrade ONCE and the purple ones ONCE as well. (they REALLY don’t want us finishing this). if you wait too long, the upgrade materials disappear
    past the 17 minute mark the levelling items completely disappear and are replaced with bullets… lots of bullets to dodge, so if you haven’t gotten your upgrades by then, no use in going further. you can stand still from minute 17 to 30 as you won’t get hit by the bullets, but it’s sad that neither the shield nor the blade destroy the projectiles. personally, i haven’t finished the mode as i find it tiring and time consuming for such a meagre reward, but i have gotten to 30 many times. was good to see they changed the 480 minute requirement to 280 tho.

27. “Stand STILL until 30:00. Bullets will miss you despite its bullet hellish looking nature”
    This statement is false. The bullets eventually WILL hit you if you stand still, and will end up killing you, unless you have the HP Regen Module.

    • A comment mentioned prior that you need 60fps so the bullets don’t hit you (for some reason).
      I did perfectly fine in my run without a health regen module, did not get hit once during that time. @shuryo

      • IDK about that, i’m definetly at 60FPS and playing on PC, with widescreen mode, but the bullets still hit me.

28. I just wanted to say this minigame is worst gaming experience i had in many years and i absolutely hate what they did.
    First of all they force you to do boring 15minute stages for dailies and progress where difficulty is extremely low, to the point where blind person playing with feet would beat it with no issue. Second, they made last challenge stage opposite of the rest and made it giga difficult. To the point where you have to spend hours of grinding for max level upgrades. THEN they made last boss absolute nonsense where beating it is 99% luck based of what modules you will get, considering how rare are +%attack modules or regen one, its a matter of retrying and wasting time on this terrible minigame rather than any skill. And here I was enjoying barbeque minigame on holidays.

29. It seems EXP & coins expire exactly 60 seconds from when they dropped. With that, you can time your idling & mass-gathering, or the utility of magnets.

    Also going Portrait/Vertical 4:3 gives your Reflector tighter spaces to move around with, giving them shorter distance before they reflect and hit other things; not to mention lessen travel time thru empty, non-rapture-spawning areas.

30. Note to people that do save scumming, the extra life module only work once even if you use it while fighting the boss. I also found out that if you don’t want to deal with the bullet hell and didn’t get HP regen at the 15 mins mark, just restart.