https://shirokoi.itch.io/temptations-ballad

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a good start to the new year! Apologies for the delay in getting this update out, my work schedule ended up getting a bit hectic over the holidays. Now I'm ready to hop right back into TB development and continue onto the next part of Chapter 4!

This update is split into two parts.
1) The main story content, which includes around 7,046 words of new story and
2) A Grank/Cole mini-episode, which totals around 5,725 words.


Changelog:
-7,046 words of story have been added to Chapter 4!
-New Grank/Cole mini-episode has been added! (5,725 words)
-4 background illustrations.
-1 new item illustration.
-2 new map icon arts for Maeve and Calder.
-6 new CGs for the Grank/Cole mini-episode!
-3 animated segments for the Grank/Cole mini-episode!
-All 8 of Agatha's sprites have been overhauled with clean lineart and cell-shading.
-All 3 of "Rosie's" sprites have been overhauled with clean lineart and cell-shading. She has also received 1 additional new sprite.
-The mini-episode thumbnails are now marked NSFW if applicable.
-Mini-episode unlock triggers are now placed at the beginning of every chapter to make unlocking them less of a hassle. For example, simply starting Chapter 4 in the -Chapter Select screen will immediately unlock all preceding episodes.
-Agatha and Rosie's sprites have been converted from PNG to WEBP files, reducing their file size footprint from 1381KB to 619KB
-Sidd's sprites have been converted to WEBP files and reduced from 6.1mb to 1.8mb.
-32 of Sidd's sprites have been revised with clean lineart and cell-shading, along with nude versions of certain sprites.
-Fixed the "artemi-distressed-3.webp missing" error in Chapter 3.
-A notification sound and text occurs at the beginning of Chapters 2 and 4 to indicate that new episodes are unlocked in the Mini-Episodes menu.
-Another grammar/typo pass. Thank you to all who have sent screenshots of such errors on the Discord server and itch page!
-The entirety of Chapter 2 has received a sprite animation pass. Character sprites should now move more dynamically in conversations, as you've seen in my more recent VN builds.
-Blurs have been added to certain backgrounds to prevent them from clashing with sprite artwork.
-Audio sting usage in Chapter 2 has been diversified. Instances of the "surprise.ogg" sound effect in this chapter has been reduced from 68 to 19.