"Official" Release

Despite this game being "finished" a year ago for release at 2020 Nintendo Community Fangames Convention (NCFC), it still had a lot of bugs and details to iron out. The game was finished, yes, but it was honestly a bug ridden mess.  I wasn't satisfied to officially release it, whatever that meant.
Usually, this meant to me, releasing it for download on Mario Fan Games Galaxy, as there was no other obvious place at the time. Now, there is itch.io as well. So I am finally submitting it to MFGG and am uploading it on here. I'm not sure either really will have as big of a reach as I would want, but what else can you do with such a niche interest as Mario Fan Games?

I contemplated submitting this to NCFC 2021, which is currently underway. However, as it was not outwardly or obviously different from last year's version, I decided not to.
Changes from last years, however include:

• sprite and animation fixes
• audio rebalancing
• audio fadeouts
• text correction
• fixed a terrible slowdown in CastleTown that would grind a game to a standstill, especially when streaming

Between starting a new business and raising a baby, this got put on the back-burner a lot. 

But after a year of slowly fixing and improving parts of this game, I'm finally happy releasing it to the public, as the "official" and "final" release (unless there's some game breaking bug I inadvertently created during my last run of debugging and fixes).

I have another child on the way, and would like to maybe begin work on part 2 soon, before I have even less time to work on games.