Hello, everyone!

Thank you for your support towards the game in the past week! I'm very glad to see my ventures into a different kind of high-speed shoot-em-up have turned out fruitful, and I look forward to being able to develop more exciting and full-fledged games in the future.

Despite the mostly stable state of 1.00c, it was still unoptimized in some areas and even had a rare crash bug that I couldn't iron out before players stumbled into it. However, worry no more - all of these have been rectified, and some new QoL features have been added!

FULL 1.01a CHANGELOG:

• Bugfix: Fixed a rare crash that happens when you use a bomb under certain circumstances. Thank you to all the players who reported this bug and helped me figure out how to fix it!

• Optimizations: Optimized item collection, rank management and enemy explosion effects. The game should run significantly better with a lot of enemies and items on screen now!

• Gameplay Changes:
  • Adjusted Cirno's bomb aura to accommodate for the above bugfix.
  • Made her shot's rank-dependent damage changes more significant.
  • Added a visual indicator for when Cirno is invincible (during a bomb or immediately after losing a life).
  • Increased Cirno's unfocused movement speed, as well as her speed boost during a bomb. Zooooooooooom!!!
  • Minor enemy pattern adjustments.

• NEW GAMEPLAY CONTENT: New enemy types and formations have been added to the gameplay loop! Now you can dispatch Misty Lake's mischievous residents in even more varied ways than before!

• JAPANESE TRANSLATION: The in-game Japanese translation has been fully implemented (manual, flavour text and options text)! You can now also switch between English and Japanese freely in the settings.

• NEW FEATURE: EFFECT CUT OPTIONS!
  
  • While the game's effects have been optimized to improve performance, if they still lag the game (or you simply would want to play without them), the new effect cut options will allow you to do so!
  • There are 3 effect cut levels that cut different effects gradually (item gain popups, explosion effects, shot effects - these are ordered from most performance-taxing to least). Feel free to adjust them to your liking!
  • Replays and gameplay content will not be affected by effect cut options.

Enjoy the game - and once again, thank you all for the support! Game development has been a big part of my life for more than a year, and I wouldn't have been able to keep my passion going without you all.