Happy New Year, everyone!
A little progress on the main story was made last week, but as of Saturday night, I got hit hard with the flu or one of covid variations and has been completely incapacitated ever since.
Sunday was by far the worst, so I hope I've overcome the worst and is recovering.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Progress on the banquet arch at Duchess Mansion has been progressing smoothly with additional, smaller cutscenes and one more CG Scene which is probably considered the main event.
Since it's only been story progression for the past week and I don't want to spoil too much, that means this tiny update is sadly all I can report on for today.
Only one more week before a fat, jolly fellow with a huge sack comes in your chimney!
I actually haven't touched anything regarding the ambush since the writing was finished, this is because rather than begin fiddling around with the emoticons and movements in the cutscene, I jumped straight into the Duchess Mansion arch and has made some decent progress.
Such as a string of smaller cutscenes and even a mini CG scene has all been finished, although that is not even the main CG scene event for the location, but a fun bonus I decided to include.
To think it's only a few more weeks before this year is already over...
Hopefully we can end on a good note, or at the very least with a (gang)bang!
To contrast the last update, this week I don't have much to say, and that's a good thing because I've been focusing entirely on the main story with the next sequence taking place during the ambush at the Valley Checkpoint, which is already finished from a writing standpoint.
What remains is structuring the cutscene, adding the proper emoticons and such.
Then it's off to Duchess Mansion!
So with that, I'll see you next Tuesday!
One beta release later!
And somehow I managed to finish the cinema completely with the full-screen viewing.
As always, most of the time before the launch was polishing up a few loose ends and the time after was spent on fixing a couple of bugs.
But I also have something important to announce this week.
Something I've been both dreading and looking forward to at the same time, because it means I no longer have to keep it a secret, taking all the blame and being stressed out about it.
The International Edition artist, aka SethxZoe has been fired from the project due to being extremely unprofessional and disrespectful to both the project and you as fans.
And you'll quickly see why when I state a few facts.
Last time he finished something, anything, for the game, was back in January this year.
Last time he answered to one of my messages was August the 8th, and it's not from lack of trying to reach out to him, as I've sent eight unanswered messages since October.
This isn't the first time, or even the second, he has gone for very long periods of time without answering, which obviously isn't acceptable when you're working with or for someone online.
Nevertheless, a suitable replacement has already been found, although it's going to be expensive and take time to have another artist come in and redo everything SethxZoe was supposed to do.
What this mean is the International Edition CG's will probably be locked when the full game launches, and be patched in later for a "Golden Edition" when the new artist is done.
And thus, the next beta will be coming out this weekend!
The winners of the poll regarding which four characters should be appearing in the cinemas found in Colussia and Odidania ended up being Farah (Adult), Laquadia, Beatrix and Queen Opala!
I don't think there will be enough time to add the feature of letting you have a seat and watch the animation in full-screen...but who knows, maybe I'll manage to pull it off.
Besides the cinemas within the new areas added to those two cities, you'll also find the fishing mini-game updated with an in-depth "fishipedia" to help track everything, the Quill of Choice being functional in the Hall of Memories, being able to finish Osira's sidequest while triggering a new CG Scene at the end of it and lastly some additional misc content.
While the idea of adding a cinema to Luminessa was scrapped, as it wouldn't fit the overall aesthetics with the current assets in place, I did add a part to Odidania where one can be found.
I decided to run a poll on my Patreon to let my supporters vote on which characters should be appearing in the cinema animations as placeholders until the Sin Swallows ones are done, and while that was meant to be the top three candidates with Luminessa in mind, it'll instead be the four top candidates as I've flipped it around and will have the Colussia/Odidania cinemas run different films, depending on the time of day.
I've also finished the current Osira questline, along with the CG Scene you'll get at the end of it.
While it requires more polish and some tweaking, it'll be in next beta hitting later this month!
