Evoria Chapter 10

After so long, it's finally here!! Evoria Chapter 10!

This chapter may be a bit shorter than you expect content-wise, but it's -very- different from anything I've done in the game thus far. And that is all I will say on the matter.

Patreon stuff will continue as normal- the bonus scenes are gonna keep on coming every month!! Plus the usual developer commentary tracks and WIP development updates on my future projects!! "Wow, we should all go check out forotherpurposes' Patreon page right now!" You all say in unison.

We've finally closed the book on this chapter, but don't despair!! This isn't the last you'll see of me!! In fact, I've got something I'm pretty excited to show you guys... It may be quiet for a little bit, but keep your eyes peeled...

Anyways, enough preamble, here are this update's patch notes!

THE STORY CONTINUES!

- Now carrying the Master of Evoria's Diary and the Rosetta Crystal, our heroes face a direct attack! The Modernites are here! How will they stop these incredibly powerful foes!? Only teamwork (And a little bit of Evoria magic) can save them now...

A TOTAL GAME OVERHAUL!

- The combat system has been completely overhauled! Now featuring smaller numbers, skills tied to equipment, EXP/level ups, and a star gauge- with fancy new team attacks!

- All pieces of scene art in Chapters 1-7 have been totally remade!! Everyone thank SeaBea, the new revisions look way more expressive and dynamic!

- A bunch of older scenes have been reworked and rewritten! Hopefully everything should feel more consistent the whole way through!

OTHER FUN STUFF!

- Evoria now has an in-game Chapter Select! The chapters will unlock as you complete them by default, but if you select "unlock all chapters" on the options menu (This only works while you're in-game, NOT on the title screen!) then you can start from anywhere you want!

- 12 All-new bad endings! Now, in previous scenes, if you lose certain battles or fail certain events, you'll get to see a special "game over" vore and digestion-centric bad endings! And don't worry! If you play through the game flawlessly, you can always watch the bad endings in the museum! Try to find them all!

- Dynamic animated overlays for all in-game belly dungeons!

- A new "Concept Art Gallery" in the museum- As you complete sidequests, you'll unlock new pieces of concept art- with special blurbs from SeaBea and forotherpurposes!

- New fanart for New Pax's fanart gallery!! The new pieces are by Despacito20, Jokerp00l, OddityMew, and a fan animation by TheFudgeman!

- A new collectible! Around the world, you'll find papers scattered on the ground. Pick them up to get new database entries- Mitzi's research notes on all the Evoria-adept characters!

- 17 New entries for the Adventurer's Database!

- An incredible new animation that plays during Chapter 10! (You'll have to see it to believe it!)

- Exciting new splash screens that play any time an important character is introduced to the story!!

- New and remade title screens!

- New Pax's Dojo has opened- now with trials where you can face illusory monsters! By completing these trials, you can get fun belly-based scenes and get EXP easier!

SMALLER CHANGES!

- The Adventurer's Database now has a separate "Lore" segment! This features previous entries in the "Journal" section that weren't postcards! The "Journal" section has also been renamed to "Postcards!"

- Added a cute little shimmer effect to the save crystals whenever you use them!

- A new victory theme!! It's from the same song as the main battle theme!

- Trimmed and reorganized a lot of the songs used in the game! You probably won't notice a difference, but it shaved about 200 MB off of the total file size!

- Berry bush sprites have been changed to be a little more noticeable!

- The UI for action commands in battles has been updated!!

- Updated the chapter title cards!! (The fact that the old ones weren't centered was annoying me haha)

- Character portraits now have colorful backgrounds! I thought this would give them a little more sense of place! Plus it's a fun stylistic thing!

- Chapter 5 now has a new name! "My Own Worst Enemy!" The old name was a very last-minute choice at the time.

- The retro sidequest and the psychedelia segment of Chapter 9 now have fancy new filter effects! These can always be turned off in the options menu too, if they're too distracting!

- The berry system has been overhauled, now all berries are "odd berries" that can be used at Flik's Gotcha machines in exchange for EXP capsules!

- The Salon in New Pax now permanently binds skills to party members, instead of just boosting the power of a certain skill. (Since skills now scale with your party's power)

TWEAKS/BALANCING!

- Instead of prompting "would you like to watch the video" before each animation, there is simply an option to skip animations by default in the options menu! If your computer struggles with displaying the animations, make sure this is triggered!

- Adjusted Mitzi's mask sprites to match the color in her portraits.

- Tweaked the environment sprites for a few areas to look more appealing color-wise

- Fixed a cutscene with Fuchsia so she actually burps in her portrait instead of just having an open mouth

- Rewrote a few lines of dialogue in the Mitzi speakeasy section of Chapter 5 to better align with the current plot

- If you are poisoned in battle, you will continue to take poison damage outside of battle! (Though, you can't die from poison unless you're in a battle!)

- Sasha now has ropes around her in the Chapter 3 interrogation scene!

- Fixed Naomi's sprite so that her mouth actually aligns with where it should be and she no longer looks like a smushed-face pug from the side

- Updated Adventurer's Database portraits for characters to match their more colorful portrait backgrounds

IMPORTANT SAVE INFO

- Since the game has been totally overhauled, there are some complications with older saves. Using an old save IS possible, but only if you've beaten Chapter 9! From there, go to Fuchsia's club and pass through the stairs right outside of her office. Here, your characters will be reformatted to work with the new combat system! Of course, if you haven't beaten Chapter 9, you can always start from wherever you like with the new Chapter select!

And there's a million more small changes that I didn't list here! This game has been an absolute dream to work on, I really can't state enough how happy I am to be doing what I'm doing. Whether it's getting to collaborate with Sea Bea, talking shop with my bugtesters, or even talking to you guys and reading all your amazing comments! I have met and interacted with so many incredible people (despite being a chronic introvert myself)- Evoria has truly been a high point of my life. Thank you all for being here, and I hope you'll stick around to see what else I've got planned!

Here's a link to the chapter:

https://mega.nz/file/IKkwCSyL#5Gf6bFo-6J5vwDMttTAHnfmu85DvR8cy2iyqv3DPv34

- F.P.