Another Forest Temple

Got a fairly decent amount of work done this week, still focused on Nyx's side of the game. Basically Nyx's mode is more action oriented, with areas that make avoiding enemies more difficult, where as Sasha's is more survival based, this is of course since Nyx has more SP recovery to work with, but resource management is still something to worry about just due to the limited inventory space.

Without spoiling any story elements, Nyx doesn't go through the same areas as Sasha, mostly anyway. The one video I posted was actually a little deceptive in a sense, because Nyx doesn't go into that wooded area in the demo or the island Sasha starts on at all, but her mode will still be about as long as Sasha's, it depends on the player though I guess.

The screens are from another forest dungeon similar to the one in the current demo, some of Nyx's dungeons will be like alternate versions of Sasha's but not all of them. One last detail is Nyx's mode has more gloomy looking environments than Sasha, but the tone is more upbeat, basically to reflect the personalities of the two characters.

Steady Progress

I don't have much to report in this devlog other than I've started adding the dialog for Nyx's route and I decided what the out what content I want to add for the next demo update, not counting any potential patches. I expanded on one island in the map and decided to cut another fairly large one that, I felt was out of place and made navigating around with the boat awkward.

Which, I hate having to do because I thought it was an interesting location and it was there for a long time, but I think it's probably for the best. I don't have any screenshots to show right now so I drew up some more art. Top-Bottom: Basilisk, Krasue, and Aello.

The basilisks are common enemies that live simple lives of pillaging and raping, both against humans and other demon tribes. The Krasue is a dangerous spirit that appears during rainy nights in the fields and constantly hungers for flesh. The last is Aello is a headstrong, virtuous harpy from the forest who appears in the demo hunting evil spirits. Despite her heroic ambitions, Aello often has bad luck and finds herself in trouble, but she always tries to keep her head up. She also doesn't get along very well with Nyx, though they're still friends.

Demo v2.2.1 Released

Moon Rhapsody Demo v2.2 is now available for everyone to play.

2.2.1 fixes the issues I mentioned in the last devlog and some minor bugs here and there but otherwise isn't much different. I spent the week trying to get some work done on my other project, but will probably go back to MR next week because I want to get Nyx's mode in the game soon. 

Overall I would say MR is about 30-40% done at this point, which is less than where I wanted to be at now, but the time spent ironing things out and fixing problems always adds up.

Anyway next major update will probably be around mid or end of July, and will hopefully be at least halfway done by then.

Also here's a new piece of art for Sasha. Made a few edits.