Thanks so much for supporting the project and leaving a comment! It's much appreciated ^-^ Glad you enjoyed your time with Castoria even if there's not all that much content there yet!
I've become a little bit obsessed with having a crazy amount of expression changes for sprites in my VNs, haha. I think because I wish I could use Live2D but don't possess the skills, so instead, I try my best to use lots of expression changes and other forms of movement to make scenes look more animated.
I guess once the game is more complete, you could consider the sweet and sinister options to be routes, yeah :3 Cos the 'endings' from the current version are actually more like the end of Castor/ia's 1st episode going by my outline. So in a more completed version, it's more like you're sort of locked in to the sweet or sinister route at that point. Though, there will also be more that goes towards deciding which route you end up on eventually because there will be more choices to make.
My plan was to have an update out in time for Christmas this year that introduces the next character while also adding more content for Castor/ia since it will have been a full year since I released the first part for the jam. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to manage that after all >.< I'm still in the writing stage for the next part, and struggling to concentrate on it. I've got a lot going on in my personal life at the moment, and my routine has kinda gone out of the window :( I've had a lot of appointments to be up early for, which means lots of early nights to bed. The problem is, almost everything I've written has been done so during the night! I don't know why, but I can just focus a lot better on writing when I do it during the night, and I'm not getting the opportunity to do that at the moment >.<
It doesn't help that I haven't worked on the project in such a long time because I was working on a few other jam projects throughout the year. DD is my main focus now though :3 Even if I can't get the next part out in time for Christmas, it should at least end up being sometime in winter or early spring, even if it's 2022 rather than 2021.
And there certainly shouldn't be any more year-long gaps in between updates unless things go very wrong in my life! Haha.
The BxG version of SR is a looooong way off though >.<
Thank you so much for your kind words and your support :3