While I'm indeed want to include both TFs in the second area, It's still far in the future. There's a lot of things I want to do first. So, no guarantee yet.
Yeah, it isn't intended. I'm planning to add some specific ending when the player fully corrupted goes to the village and somehow forgot to restrict the player from entering the village first, thus of what happened. As for slime and or goblin girl. You can just use dispel potion again to restore to the base male adventurer. Just so you know that you need two dispel potion for that, one to restore you to human (still female) and one to get you back into being a man. Though I might get the restoring circle to restore you instantly from being goblin/slime girl without costing any dispel potion for the future.
You supposed to find the blue potions first and finally go to face the bandit leader, which supposedly unwinnable without drinking it. But from your case, I know that you can still win against the bandit leader even without drinking the blue potions and I might have to fix it XD
Have you finished fighting her again? Or have you found the blue potions too? This is a bug that someone else also had reported, but according to them, when you finished fighting her for the second time, you should be able to get out of the cave.
Neither the game nor the author is also perfect as the way it is. So, feel free to reach out if you have any other concerns. I'll try my best to make it at least bearable.
The balance isn't great atm. If you're stuck because of the damage balance, the only things that you could do for now might just grind your level up from the previous bandit encounters, or if you're stuck because of the gauge keep getting high, you might need the meditation skills for that because the skill able to reduce said gauge.
This is actually an issue regarding the skip mechanic, which isn't working properly towards the movement route if I'm not wrong. I'm going to ask first if the vex character are in it's proper position first (in front of the player) or does it somehow bugged in the table. If it's the later, then it might be the reason of the softlocked. Try not to skip in the opening scene of the boss battle and see if it works.
It might be that case, though I'll need to rebalance things so you can't just one shot or resisted enemies attack the more you progress through the game.
You still can play most of it, albeit there might be some bug still linger in the safe files. The good choice is to start a new save, but it's okay if you want to try it.
Thanks for the report, the mermaid area and mermaid form is the newest content so far so there'll be indeed some bug regarding it. This bugs isn't acknowledge before, so I'm glad someone manage to find it. And regarding mermaid-related content, yeah, there will be, as the story itself suggested in-game 😉
