lol I'm also obsessively checking it and yes you're right. The costumes and skin color/body shape stuff was added recently and maybe the pictures of the locations too. Maybe the video quality on their blog was having an effect but the graphics look nicer than I thought. Not that it looked bad but those images of the locations are really nice looking.
I'm legit gonna get a day off from work to playIf you read the last few posts, you'll understand everything.
Ohh how I wish I was like you only discovering it now...the wait would be so much shorter! Yes, it's a new standalone game that's similar to the first but with way more features, outfits, and locations. You can see a bunch of videos and pictures on their blog thing that's been updated once a month for a while now. The newest are shown first:
Seems like it's just a reupload of a previous version with some minor tweaks
I am expecting Manaka will set the bar (a lot) higher. If Jaguar is still in the game, he needs to offer something a lot more innovative to stay relevant. Roxanne is mostly playable and the authors have tried something new (like streaming to make money). The game is going to be launched on Steam this summer and mobile in the future. If you look at smaller projects like Rena, it's nothing ground breaking (the gamplay consists of a superset of a subset of Seleka's features) but the experience feels polished. If you want something more cute and relax, there is Nagisa. This game has good map design and the path finding is the best I have seen so far in this genre (you can even set your character on auto pilot!)
You sound like a very serious businessman.
Wait, autopilot? That's certainly a cool feature!
Weirdly it seems like it's because it randomly went viral on TikTok? lol...a short clip of her flashing her boobs has 250k likes. The internet is weird...
After you complete the game, you will unlock free roam mode. In this mode, you can set your character on auto pilot and she will follow pre-determined paths. You can also pick fast travel to roam in different parts of the map. I think ASMR would be a more accurate name. AFAIK Nagisa is the only game that offers this feature in this genre.
It's tough business to be an indie developer for a niche genre. I believe there is potential in this market for people who are prepared to harvest. The games I listed are some examples and Sheable_soft is the forerunner right now.You sound like a very serious businessman.
I wouldn't get my hopes up. Jaguar is now alone, without free time and money. Times have changed and there are many interesting games, but it's good that he doesn't want to give up. The big strength of Roshutsu was the extra mods and Jaguar could benefit from that. In the end, even Roxanne "borrowed" some ideas, like finding the key.
