Highlights are the new difficulty setting (Normal or Hard) and improved stages 4 (underground lab) and 5 (highway). Although I was hoping to get to work on stage 6 (capital city), it’s about time for a new version. Unfortunately, the caravan stage is quite broken and has been disabled for this release.

Options

• Added an easier Normal difficulty. The original difficulty is Hard. This setting affects only the campaign stages.
• Added option to adjust the analog deadzone.
• Added option to skip the dialogue before and after bosses.

Controls

• Player movement with the controller is now assigned to both Left Stick and D-pad and is no longer configurable.
• Player can no longer move faster than maximum speed by pressing directions on multiple controllers.

Level design

• Stage 4
  • More new monstergirl sprites by Snow Rose, bringing their style closer to the other characters.
  • Increased bonuses for rescuing prisoners.
  • Add more enemies, especially in the hypnotists’ section to eliminate dead air.
  • Demonsterizer tubes take more damage, but have a machine behind them which is their weak point.
  • Boss is more mobile and calls up columns of lava in the second half of the fight.
• Stage 5
  • Many adjustments to boss fight to make it more fair and rewarding.
  • Adjust colors of road tiles and city shield tiles for better bullet visibility.

Gameplay

• Enemies consider their bullets’ gravity so they can face the player and fire at her properly.
• When assaulting enemies at max power, your companions now spread out instead of bunching together.
• The number of reserve companions is capped at 20. Any more will give a 5000 point bonus.

Interface

• Redone menus. Flash outline around selected menu item and play sound on activating it.
• Bonus tally at the end of a level is sped up to ensure they finish before exiting the level.
• Reduce blur on drunk title screen so instructions are more readable.
• Testing out a new gradient background behind game viewport.

Fixes

• Fixed enemy not dropping their heart when defeated off the top of the screen.
• Fixed occasional juddering of player and other sprites that move with the camera. (was more apparent with resolution setting at 1x)
• Fixed the pause menu being affected by the drunk blur shader.
• Fixed the bullet origin of exploding land mines.
• Fixed hole in empty cauldron sprite.
• Fixed hypnotists emitting particles in the wrong direction.
• Fixed mounted enemies in stage 5 sometimes riding on nothing.
• Fixed camera moving the wrong way when starting stage 6 at the checkpoint.
• Fixed unchanged Windows exe icon.
• Reduced comic book filesize by half and removed some unnecessary lines.