You will sadly have to conform with the Picture Set, Seth posted alongside the 3.1 demo update. I know it blows and sucks but at least he even acknowledged the Kaguya update was rather short, so he made up for that with all the CG art he did and commissions for scenes in the game and, I imagine, future events when the rest of the girls get added (i.e. Claudia, Celestine, etc). And also according to the FAQ Read Me file inside the Picture Set folder, he mentioned he would like to add the girls from Kuroinu II and Gaiden as "Bonus" I believe. So there's also looking foward to that too.
Also I believe regarding the Maya thing, it might be a bug from older saves, I would like to imagine. This probably won't happen on a new game, most likely (hopefully) this issue isn't carried to newer versions. I say this because the saves I've been using have been all the way back from version 2.83/2.85 or so.
As much as I love this, and also I appreciate Seth's intent on making an alternate way of experiencing the Kuroinu story, I would LOVE to have an option to skip the Sewer Dungeons. I swear I wouldn't mind starting a new game from scratch if it weren't for the sewers themselves. And yeah, the puzzles ain't too bad, part of me getting stumped was just me being focused on IRL stuff and well, didn't fully put my mind into the puzzles but they aren't bad by any means. This might be me, but as part as the random enemy encounters in the game I would like to have a Repel-like item to make them avoidable, if necessary. Don't know how easy or hard would be to program that into the game though.
Daaamn, I full agree, I love the story, the writing and characters, but the two last dungeons weren’t that enjoyable.
I already don’t like sewers, so my eyes rolled when I had to deal with the same shit.
I do liked the puzzles, they weren’t that hard and enough understandable but I would have preferred if there weren’t random encounters.
A repel item would be indeed useful, or just an option to speed up the battle or take out the animations (the toggle animations doesn’t work for me).
Also small thing but I would love if every enemy was drew by Seth, but I understand.
Ok I get it, it’s a save problem but I don’t wanna restart everything just for Maya and I’ll wait if he releases an hotfox or something similar.
I haven’t still done Origa date and Maya’s (for obvious reasons) and I visited some forts which are a nice addition but I do wonder if there are quest or more things to do.
And hooray for the sex scenes added but also not really, they are better with writing and dialogues they feel more dinamic and interesting imo, if there is a story in it.
Writing is the real kink all along.
I may replay it, one day, but the game is slow and yet engaging and yeah I love it, despite the flaws we all mentioned, it’s still a great game, unique from the others.
Update was good, but was it worth for one year of wait?
I guess, better than nothing, but damn I want more.
I’ll go check the CGI and try to find all the events and see if they can fix Maya scene, because ain’t gonna die peacefully without watching that love scene.