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So it's been...a little bit of time since I posted anything here. I have been posting more frequent progress updates on the Discord server. But I know a lot of people don't like using Discord in general. And besides that, my server's...special, anyway. Blogspot at this point does feel pretty outdated, and I never really was a huge fan of it to begin with, but that's really no excuse. I kept telling myself I'd just make another Blogspot post when the update was done and then I could surprise everyone, but it's just not worth it. So I'll just talk about what's happening right now.

I had a longer post planned going into a little more detail about why it's taken so long. But honestly, I don't think anyone's interested in reading about that. Another time, maybe. But not now. Instead I'll just say, I'm still working on the final update to Part 3, and obviously it's a big one. Here are some of the things you can expect from it.

• The Monsterpedia. I've fixed up pretty much all the issues with it. Request scenes work again (for NG+ monsters, original monsters will be fixed too), I rewrote a lot of the code to work better in general. I also fixed a bunch of bugs and oversights with both the Monsterpedia and the Records page. Did you know losing to Granberia by getting beaten to a pulp in the original game counted as an orgasm according to the records page? I'm not even kidding.

• H-scenes. There's a lot of them. There are scenes – literally dozens of them probably – that I've left unfinished for the longest time, or finished them and just never managed to implement them. I'm working on getting those added back in, as well. New CG, too.

• Camp scenes. Basically the same as above. More of those, too.

• Party members. There are a few more I plan to add in the next update, including a couple secret ones. Ipeia and Nibi are returning too, don't worry.

• New areas. This is more Part 4 stuff than Part 3, but I do have a few new and unexplored areas planned, and new monsters to go with them. These will probably be in smaller subsequent updates (that hopefully won't take two fucking years to finish)

In other words, the last Part 3 update is probably going to be the biggest one so far, by quite a bit. It's still going to take some time to finish. I have to draw a bunch of CGs, code fights, write h-scenes, test everything to make sure it works, etc. But once it's ready, hopefully it'll have been worth waiting so long for. And hopefully the next updates won't take such an excruciatingly long time.

It's obvious I was waaaaaaaaaaay too ambitious with my plans when I started working on NG+. I basically wanted to make a game that was as big if not way bigger than the original game...as a high school kid with zero programming experience, writing experience, art experience, etc. Yeah, there was no way that was ever going to work. The only reason it wasn't completely canceled 7 years ago is because apparently, I'm the most stubborn moron that ever lived.

And on that note, I'm still going ahead with the original plan. Nothing's changed with that. Still six parts, still an absurd amount of content. I've gone too far with it to go back on it now, so I'm just gonna keep working on it when I can.

TL;DR FINAL PART 3 UPDATE SOON PLEASE BE PATIENT.