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Hello again, cheesecakes!

So, for this month's second early access release I've been working hard on getting one of the more requested paths I teased into the game; the one in the villainous route where Kyou attempts a pragmatic path of villainy. Instead of making wholesale changes to his victims, he instead chooses to subtly influence them as a means of achieving his goals so his targets won't suspect a thing... at least, not until it's too late!

Not going to lie, I've struggled with writing this path more than any other. Like, I've talked before about how rough and first drafty some of my writing has felt, but the last few scenes of this in particular were very difficult to put together and need more work, or remaking entirely. 

The main problem for me is, while I think the initial concept is excellent, implementing it within the frame of Penlight's story, which is mostly set in and around a school week, and following through to a satisfying conclusion was always a daunting prospect. 

While I'm not personally happy with the quality of this, I'm going to release this on schedule for you folks to look over and hopefully find something to enjoy in it~ But I also intend to release a follow up in a few day's time for a couple of reasons. One, to hopefully improve the writing of this route a little more and maybe implement some of the early feedback I get, and second to add some sprite art that I commissioned earlier this week because I really wanted it to go in this month's round of updates.

Oh YEAH, all this text and I haven't talked about the new art yet! So, Sayori gets a CG this time, meaning all three girls now have a CG scene or two in the game. Sayori's is very similar to the one I had done for Nozomi, depicting several similar induction scenes. Hiroko will get one like it too at some point to complete the set. 

Okay, that's it for now! Let me know what you think and join me again in a few days for the updated release :)

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What's New

New path added to Villainous Route: Sleeper Agent - Very work in progress route, playable from start to end

New CG set featuring Sayori, which replaces the sprite art in several scenes, mostly during her consent route

Added a couple more background images to accommodate the Villainous Spy/Sleeper Agent path

Hiroko's height has been reduced slightly on her new sprite

Word count is now over 119,000

General typo/grammatical corrections

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angelademille

Huh, that is strange behaviour! And it does sound like the result of bad data from previous saves as I had to re-jig a few things to accommodate the new path in code. I can definitely see this update breaking old saves :/ People in my discord reported some graphical issues (result of making this release in the latest version of Ren'Py), but nothing like this so yeah, I'm gonna suggest starting fresh.

Andrew

I see. I’ll start fresh then, and let you know if I still have the problem with the Sleeper Agent route.

Andrew

Okay, I started fresh, and that definitely fixed it - I was able to play through the whole route. Thanks for the help! As for the route itself, I thought it was pretty good. I do agree that the time limit (and only having the three girls) limits the scope a bit, but I still think it makes for a pretty good story - the confrontation in Kyou’s house in particular was really creepy and upsetting, which of course was the entire point. I’m definitely curious how you plan to modify it, though, so that’s something to look forward to. As always, great job!