New Features

• Surveillance Replay - Completed levels now play back a security camera replay before showing your score, complete with CRT overlay, VHS effects, and tape noise. Skippable with ESC/Space/Enter or gamepad

• Replay Tape - Replay your best completions from the level preview screen with a cassette tape button

• Sector 1 Restructure - Reorganized Sector 1 progression with new tutorial levels for buttons, cloth mechanics, and grates based on playtester feedback

• Sector 2 Progression - Full Sector 2 overworld path with scientist, blood bridge, scanner, and battery tutorials plus story transitions

• Sector 3 Progression - Populated Sector 3 with tongue creature mechanic levels

• Sector 4 & 5 Gate Dialogue - Director-voiced dialogue at sector gates that branches based on your choices

• Gate Requirement Chains - Each sector gate now requires completing all preceding sectors

• Once-per-visit Dialogue - Some dialogue lines now show once per visit, revealing new information each time

• Font Support - Added pixel-perfect Chinese font fallback

• Level Editor Improvements - Dual-panel layout, search filters, cursor preview, auto-scroll, and per-tile text editing

Improvements

• Tutorial Streamlined - Removed redundant tutorial steps; flow is now simpler and faster

• VHS Effect Overhaul - Unified CRT/VHS shader with separate modes for rewind and surveillance

• Pause Behavior - Pausing now freezes gameplay while keeping the world visible behind the overlay

• Ico Hints - All pulsing hint icons now blink in sync with a smooth fade

• Dialogue Speech - Cleaner character voice system with per-character pitch

• Bubble Timing - Speech bubble animations now use consistent, coupled timing

Bug Fixes

• Fixed level editor thumbnail overlap when generating icons quickly

• Fixed VHS flicker during manual level reset

• Fixed level complete animation offset on wider displays

• Fixed dialogue balloon flickering on first appearance

• Fixed floating speech bubbles when speaker is removed mid-dialogue

• Fixed breath vapor not updating position during undo

• Fixed breath vapor not restarting after level restart

• Fixed crash when exiting level during active dialogue

• Fixed dialogue text scrolling to wrong position on long lines

• Fixed leaderboard showing stale scores after completing a level

Removed

• Removed unused shaders and 111 unused texture masks (smaller download, an entire MEGABYTE!)