New Content
Added the Tottori Dunes level with new lessons and words
Added "Road to Kurashiki 1" level between こうらくえん and "Road to Kurashiki 2" (formerly 1) in Okayama Prefecture. This level is completed automatically after updating for the players vaing reached the former Road to Kurashiki 1 (lesson, quest, battle). The main puzzle of the level can still be replayed.
Added Kanji Radicals to the Kanjidex
Added one achievement in Road To Kurashiki 1
Quality of life improvements
Added visual feedback for misplaced sentence blocks during tests and dialogues (can be turned off in the options)
Added a retry button at the end of challenges after success
Added a retry button after failing to build a sentence during dialogues
Bubble dialogues can now be paused by clicking on them
Added stroke count to the Kanjidex
Added a stroke count filter in the Kanjidex
Added a prefecture filter for lessons
Added minigame unlock counts on the map
Improved tooltips for verbs and adjectives
Dialogues can no longer be exited during story-related cutscenes
Japanese material improvements
Reorganized lessons in "Road to Kurashiki" and Kurashiki, spreading the content across 6 lessons instead of 4 to reduce density
Improved あげる / もらう / くれる / 渡す lesson (explanation, lesson focus on those 4 verbs only, and better images)
Added よろしくお願いします in the same lesson as お願いします in Bizen
Added the temporal meaning of "before" to the definition of 前
Added kanji forms of words written in hiragana as notes in the dictionary
Improved and added several example sentences
Fixes
Fixed an issue where the first rival encounter could be skipped. If skipped, returning to "Road to Takamatsu" now allows you to name and challenge your rival
Fixed a soft lock issue that could happen after going back to Road To Marugame having previously skipped the rival cut scene
Fixed an issue affecting some AZERTY keyboards in Ninja Kana
Other bug and localization fixes
Additional Note
The update reworked some of the lessons organization around the area of "Road to Kurashiki", "Kurashiki". If before the update you were in "Road to Kurashiki" or in the beginning of Kurashiki, the lesson about weather moved to the new area is then new for you (it was before in Kurashiki).
We indeed analysed player feedbacks, and it was clear that this part of the game was unbalanced and that the lessons were too dense.
We then recommend for those players to:
- review the lessons 天気 and Temperatures (weather) in the lesson section of your book (they got automatically unlocked)
- play the "Road To Kurashiki 1" as there are a lot of situations / puzzles to practice those concept
- play the Ben challenge unlocked in your challenge list (after the challenge of 白川)