Nocturne is still in development, and we've just released a Demo of the full version. Head over to the main Nocturne store page to download the Demo and wishlist the game.
Nocturne is still in development, and we've just released a Demo of the full version. Head over to the main Nocturne store page to download the Demo and wishlist the game.
Achievements Nocturne: Prelude now has 17 Steam achievements! They provide a mix of challenges, some which will require you to play the game a little differently. Upstream Nocturne now fully supports an upstream layout for combat. Change your note direction in the gameplay settin
Achievements
Nocturne: Prelude now has 17 Steam achievements! They provide a mix of challenges, some which will require you to play the game a little differently.
Upstream
Nocturne now fully supports an upstream layout for combat. Change your note direction in the gameplay settings.
Combat Layout
For players that prefer a more classic layout for combat, you can now enable “Classic” mode in the gameplay settings. This moves the Judgement and Combo text to be centered on the columns.
Note Colors
By default Nocturne has fixed colors for each column. Now you can switch your colors to “Timing” mode in the gameplay menu. This will color each note individually based on the timing of the note.
1/4th - Red 1/8th - Blue 1/12th = Purple 1/16th = Yellow 1/24th = Pink 1/32nd = Orange 1/48th = Light Blue 1/64th = Green 1/128th = Grey Mines = Black
New Rank: S+
Added a new S+ Rank for players who are already too good at the game. Requires a 98% score.
Difficulty Selection
When changing the game’s difficulty, you’ll now get a preview of each difficulty to better help you select the right one.
Additional Changes
Menus
Added tips to the game over screen.
Added “Mirror Charts” option to the gameplay options menu, allowing players to Enable or Disable mirror charts.
Added a “Wishlist Now” button to the main menu which takes the player to the Nocturne Prelude steam page. After Beta this will be updated to link to the full version of Nocturne.
Added a new final screen after beating the boss that has options for wishlisting, loading the latest save or returning to the main menu.
The scrolling background from the title screen is now also visible on the difficulty screen and character naming screen.
Combat
Easy and Normal difficulties have had their Judgement Zones relaxed. Hard, Expert and Zen remain the same as previous.
Increased the Bike Helmet armor bonus from 1 to 2.
The combat score screen now shows your score in green if you beat your previous high score.
The columns no longer fade out during Yako’s transition to his special attack.
Cutscenes
Pre-boss cutscenes are now skipped after your first attempt. Beating the boss will reset back to the full cutscene for just one viewing.
Release v1.0.9 After a smooth launch, we've just applied a small patch to fix some minor bugs and make one feature improvement to the arcade. Combat Ending an encounter next to the edge of the map no longer causes the camera to jump. Fixed a bug that could cause random encounters
Release v1.0.9 After a smooth launch, we've just applied a small patch to fix some minor bugs and make one feature improvement to the arcade.
Combat
Ending an encounter next to the edge of the map no longer causes the camera to jump.
Fixed a bug that could cause random encounters to become enabled before the tutorial with Kimothy had been completed.
Arcade
Completing a battle now also unlocks the arcade for all difficulties lower than your current setting. (Eg: Completing a battle on Hard, will unlock the battle for Hard, Normal and Easy.)
Nocturne: Prelude launched worldwide today on Steam. Thank you everyone who helped test during the Beta, and welcome to anyone playing for the first time. Prelude is the first chapter. There's many more heart-pumping battles to come and plenty of surprises along the way. The full
Nocturne: Prelude launched worldwide today on Steam. Thank you everyone who helped test during the Beta, and welcome to anyone playing for the first time.
Prelude is the first chapter. There's many more heart-pumping battles to come and plenty of surprises along the way. The full version of Nocturne is still in development. If you'd like to stay in touch with development, here's where you can follow.