As you may know, PROJEKT GODHAND and its sister game, Chronal Chain (it has a Steam page now! check it out if you like danmaku and/or fluffy girls and/or being a badass time magician) will appear at Tokyo Game Show this year! We're hard at work on our new game demos, but here's a quick rundown of what you can expect in version 0.5, which will release on 9/25 (after the first business day of TGS):
Two new songs in CORE APPEND:
These are part of a still-unannounced collaboration! We'll reveal them on the first day of TGS, so look forward to it. As usual, that's even more free additional playable content.
Big UI update:
We've refreshed the game's interface with new graphics! Part of this update is a shiny new flame background, which is substantially dimmer during gameplay--we've heard some players mention that the background makes visibility difficult for them, so hopefully this takes care of it. There's a lot of other changes, and you can look forward to an overall sleeker and more visually consistent style.
Sort options:
The songwheel is currently using what we call "vibes-based sorting", but if you'd rather sort things alphabetically or by (current) difficulty, we're cooking up something for you
Japanese language support:
It's basically what you'd expect. A lot of the new UI elements are bilingual, in keeping with the game's cyberpunk setting and visual style, and the language setting takes care of the rest.
Return of the demo:
If you've got friends who missed out on the prior demos and are on the fence about the game, let them know that it'll be possible to play a chunk of the game for free again soon! The new demo will be based on 0.5 and features 7 songs. To prevent future save-related issues (you might recall some issues happening with demo 1's save in the initial Early Access release, or save corruption related to playing NOISZ's demo after the full game), please note that this demo will save separately from the full game.
As previously announced, 0.5 is the final major update to the Early Access version (of course, we'll still make any needed bugfixes, etc). Afterwards, we'll be focusing on the new content for the full 1.0 release! Despite everything, PROJEKT GODHAND has yet to truly begin, after all...