Hey I just wanted to say thank you for the reply. I played the 1.2 version today, and yesterday... and I really love it. I obviously don't want to spoil anything for ppl on here but there was a lot of new additions in Story Mode, and I was a fan of all of them. As for what I said about the rows/columns, I actually tried out Unicorn Overlord and realized it was like it in that game. Ik this is inspired by that, so I feel like a jerk for criticizing something that was actually being faithfully adapted.
I think regardless of not having running shoes, the pace of the runs feel better in 1.2 as well. It got very repetitive in 1.1 where almost every quarter finals started with bullying Falkner. In 1.2 I straight up haven't seen that event at all, and what's been in its place feels a lot more varied and interesting.
You've done an amazing job so far with this, and i really appreciate that you've gone out of your way to update it too. Thank you so much for this.