I've played a bit of this update, and it's pretty good! I really feel like stating some things out loud, but apparently my wall of text was so big itch couldn't even handle it so I'll post it in the replies
101 days ago (+1)
those are probably just me things
- Haru's design still feels a bit weird to me, but I guess you just get used to it.
- During the Ku event (forgot what it's called, sorry) I tried to give Ori the feather, only to find out that I can't. Apparently I had to use the "Ask" submenu. This was present in the previous versions as well I'm pretty sure, but still, it would be nice if you could just give the feather directly.
- You should be able to swim by yourself
suggestions
- Spirit Vision doing absolutely nothing during normal gameplay was super disappointing. I thought you could use it to find some secret items, but it's just the internal view during sex.
- Fishing could be made much more interesting instead of just giving you 10 SLOs per cast. You could expand the item pool, different weather conditions could boost the drop rate of certain rare items, and different areas could give different items! Also, you should list the item pool for fishing like you did for searching the area.
- Add the Spirit Tree's blessing progress somewhere so that we know exactly how many SLOs we have to give her to get the next blessing.
- An accessibility option for holding the skip button instead of toggling it. It would be helpful if you want to skip some dialogue, but not all of it.
101 days ago(+1)
I tried searching nearly every area with it enabled and I didn't see any difference, sorry. And the minigame cheating makes sense, but it didn't cross my mind ever.
issues
- (Balancing) Regular fish having a sell price of 10 SLOs is too overpowered. The Pikajota mushroom is the same price, but it has a 2% (!) drop chance in an area that you have to unlock first (which I think is random? I can't find a pattern in how you unlock the new areas), while fishing is accessible almost immediately, just sell him flowers that you find in Wandering Meadows until you can afford the fishing rod. Maybe keep the high price for a different type of fish (with the fishing rework I suggested earlier) that can only be caught in Cedar Streams or something like that, and make the regular fish from Falroot Lake cheaper.
- (Bug I guess?) The journal text is practically unreadable on lower resolutions. This screenshot has been made on 1024x576, you can see the issue. Maybe make this text bolder and bigger, just like every other text in this game.
- (Bug) You get "Try it on!" achievement during the "All is well" event if you pick Sean to accompany you to the Spirit Well.
- (Bug) Someone had already pointed this out, but you get softlocked if you press the skip button during the backpack event.
- (I don't think that's supposed to happen) If you collapse in front of Haru during the All's well event, the game just forgets about it. He doesn't even get mentioned, you can't choose him to accompany you because he's simply not there, and he doesn't even ask you what happened afterwards.