Heyo! Yano here with this devlog: We have a crazy new update we're super excited about!
First and foremost: Addressing Softlocks
We have taken several measures to address unfortunate circumstances that could lead to players saving into a save soft locking scenario. Such measure include:
An entirely new, made from scratch save states system
A difficulty slider, that lets you choose between: Story, Balanced, and Merciless
New shops, healers, and warnings before "Trials" (areas you won't immediately be able to leave)
Reduced the number of non-exitable areas by opening up some exits
If you encountered this issue on your play through, firstly, we're really sorry about that!
Game development always proves difficult, and we learn more and more with each new game and update.
If you have a save that got locked, please try loading in and searching for a new shop or healer nearby, and make full use of the new save states system. In the worst case, you can even try dipping your save down into Story difficulty to make getting out easier (you won't lose any type of benefit, and can change back to Balanced difficulty later)
With that out of the way, lets get on to our next BIG change:
The All-New Difficulty Slider
An all new difficulty slider lets you play the game in multiple ways:
Story, Balanced, and Merciless
This difficulty slider shows up when starting a new save, but you can also change between the difficulty modes at any time, from the brand new and fully reworked options menu.
Before, Yami Kids was mostly just based on the "Balanced" difficulty. We've made this very slightly easier, added a Story difficulty, which lets you experience the full game without too much difficulty (not "way too easy", just "just right"), whereas Merciless keeps the difficulty of the original default game difficulty, plus slightly more so. Merciless can be selected when making a new save, and downgraded at any time. However, downgrading will remove the "Merciless" mark from your save profile.
All New Options Menu, with New Settings
The options menu has been essentially remade from scratch, vastly improving it's functions and usability, while also adding new settings, including Always On for monster health, for users that don't want to play the guessing game.
Inspect Once, Remember Forever
There's new ways to remember data, including a default setting that lets you inspect once, and remember that data for forever. The setting is on by default in Balanced and Story, and off for Merciless.
In Other News
This is really just the tip of the iceberg in recent changes, and I don't want to keep you here all day. Aside from what's mentioned above, we also greatly improved monsters movepools, updated several monsters elements to make more sense (i.e. make evolving monsters retain their previous elements).
Another notable new additions is benched party monsters evolving, some new moves (like the SP draining ones) and items to help add more variety, balance, and individuality to your monsters and gameplay, as well as countless adjustments, improvements, and balance patches.
I'll put the full changelog below for anyone that's curious!
One Last Thing ...
Finally ... Thank you everyone so much for playing our new game, Yami Kids, and especially to those that left reviews, provided feedback, and all in all helped support and improve this game. This update is HUGE, and vastly improves the game, but if wouldn't have been possible without your voice!
We will continue to listen to feedback, and update the game where we feel necessary. In the meantime, we hope you can come back to Yami Kids, and enjoy future games, content, and potential DLC we may see on the horizon one day~
To anyone that's been enjoying the game, we would really appreciate it if you left a review on the main Steam page! (No pressure). Leaving a review is the no. 1 best way to support an indie game, especially one that released so recently likes ours^^ I'll leave a link to the Steam page below!
Thank you so much for your support! ♡
Thank you again for everyone who's taken the time to play the game. If anyone has any feedback, we're all ears and listening on several channels. Feel free to leave a message on Discord, or community hub at any time.
That's all, cheers!
- Yano
Yami Kids v1.0.8.4 ー Full Changelog
Added difficulty modes: Story, Balanced and Merciless
All older saves opened in this version will be set as Balanced
Added save profiles for each save slot, that has 10 save states
Added in-battle party evolutions
Adjusted movepools and added lots of new moves
Adjusted monster typings/elements/sins to be the same as previous evolutions. Exceptions for split evolution monsters and one other. See list below.
Added sp draining moves
Added Shiny Soul item
Changed the text of moves to now say exact percentages of status effects
Party screen now shows monster status effects (burn, poison, etc)
Added shiny portraits
Added Kickstarter backer credits and Special Thanks sections
Settings menu has been reworked for easier navigation
Inspect status is now saved, so future monsters do not require a re-inspect. The exception is Merciless mode, as it does not save inspect status.
Added HP display options. Disabled in Merciless mode.
Cave of Trials is no longer blocked off
Added an additional healer to north side of Foxy's Mansion
Added warp statues. On activation, the statue is saved as a warp point that can be accessed from any other statue on the same map.
Maps with statues now include: Cave of Lost Souls, Luria Caves, Route 02, Route 03, Route 04, and Road of Shadows
Removed Asurama from area spawns
Removed Kurontan from guild requests
Route 04 full rework
Added new stats, skills, and battle info tutorials to controls tutorial at the start of the game
Changed "Run" button to "Run / Info" in control options
Fixed camera positioning in both Witch scenes and Researcher scene in town of undead
Added special drops to scripted Delial fights in slums and cave of lost souls if you manage to win. One drop in particular will never be found in shops or vending machines. However, the story will continue as if you had lost.
Reduced chest tutorial trigger time so it begins faster
Adjusted flee rate so you can now flee easier above 90% HP (was 100% only before)
Added additional menu polish
Reduced wild monster levels in Cave of Trials and Foxy's Mansion
Reduced monster levels of maid twins team
Story mode reduces ALL trainer monster levels by 1
Merciless mode increases ALL monster trainer levels by 3
Fixed a bug where monster status effects would remain on death and revive. Now properly gets removed.
Fixed inspect bug where you could not inspect with your second monster in a doubles battle if you inspected with the first
Fixed a soft lock bug in the school basement with Julie
Previously some monsters would have their elements/typings and sins completely change on evolution, which would ruin some players team compositions, make monsters less relevant for play, or ruin players first choice sin crest as the monster who would use it no longer can. We have now adjusted typings to either be in line with their final evolution OR with their first. Some exceptions remain, such as split evolution monsters and Kaboomchu. Please see the list below for affected monsters/evolution lines:
Jubi line -> Greed
Zubanzan -> Pride
Yukisagi -> Envy
Hatrix -> Wrath
Amenoella -> Sloth
Mr. Panic -> Envy
Reppun -> Sloth
Telegon/Datatsu -> Inferno/Demon/Glutton
Owletter/Kurontan -> Sky/Inferno/Sloth
Keshiko line -> Inferno/Undead/Wrath
Ibaraki -> Earth/Demon/Sloth
Asurama -> Earth/Undead/Wrath
Traqueen -> Inferno/Undead
Jean -> Pride
Watanabe -> Pride
Tsubane -> Lust
Re:akako line -> Sky/Undead/Envy
Kemuri -> Earth/Living/Glutton
Thuntra -> Earth/Living/Sloth
Nyakako -> Wrath
Bam line -> Sky/Demon/Pride
Koko -> Sea/Undead/Lust
Koi line -> Sea/Holy/Glutton
Ringel -> Wrath
Yuujo -> Earth/Living/Greed
Morphtrix -> Wrath
Razor -> Glutton
Wanyuu -> Inferno/Demon
This was the complete changelog for the recent Yami Kids update.
Thank you ♡
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