Act 2 Scene 1: The Ball Scene!

• *takes you by the paw* Let’s begin Act 2 together, okay?? <3
• A gigantic scene, similar in length to S4
• Tons of new art, music, sfx, and animations!!
• 19 lore bits for the new scene (more than any other!)

New Success/Failure Effects

• A cool animation will now play when you win or lose a minigame
• New sfx for both as well

Added Shield items

• Automatically consumed to save you when you would normally fail a minigame
• Handy for keeping your combo going!

XP System

• Level up by winning minigames
• Level ups will reward you with Shields and Seeds
• You can now earn 4 different bonuses for exceptional minigame performance, which will all boost your XP gain

Garden Prototype

• Drag Seeds from your inventory into the textbox to grow flowers over the course of your playthrough
• Currently just for fun, but will eventually have more purpose!

Audio

• About 10 new sound effects
• 7 new music tracks + variants
• Two new ambient tracks
• Unique titlecard sfx for Act 2 scenes
• Tweaked quizWin sfx to be a bit less grating when used repeatedly in the story
• Loudened storm.ogg (ambient wind thingy)
• Loudened Trouble in Bitch Town track

Art

• “Party Time” animation
• Ball sprite + floating animation
• Pet sprite + floating animation
• Beautiful Suit and Imp CG by suki!
• Replaced placeholder art with NEW SPRITES for Master, Derebella, and Analyst

• Two mysterious new characters with many sprites each
• 2 small doodles (Eileilal and tree diagram) for the lore bits
• 4 Officiary sprites
• 3 Suit sprites
• 1 Dancer sprite
• 6 Deadghost sprites
• A suite of alternate sprites for Dancer and Healer during a certain part of the scene
• Tons of sprite edits for Healer, Mimi, Dancer, Imp, and even Null
• Fixed Healer’s derpy blindHappy sprite a bit, but its still extemely derptastic
• Swaggy “goth corporate casual” Never edit
• New “dark spirals” effect
• Massively upgraded blackout garden bg
• One new “character” with horrible, weird smudged art

Misc

• Added sprite animations (Healer can now bounce up and down)
• Text slam effect now works with text that has odd spaces (Imp)
• 10 new achievements
• Emotional effects (flowers/spirals) now spawn while word-by-word text slams occur, instead of after the animation finishes
• Added a “not allowed” custom cursor for a certain character
• Fixed golf ball taking an extra 3 seconds to stop at the end of every shot
• Trial parry combos are now saved when exiting the Trial
• Fishing bobber will dunk much faster and more consistently
• Increased the time limit for Veil (arrow keys/ball minigames)
• Inventory items are now sorted by category

Thanks for playing, everyone! <3