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As of about 20 minutes ago, I (tentatively) finished writing Shen's route relaunch! I don't really know what happened, honestly. Guess I just hit my stride and got a lot done in a much shorter time than usual :V at this rate, the relaunch will likely drop in May!

As for my wellbeing, I'm doing alright :') Exhausted, but that's the norm at this point

that's weird, maybe try redownloading? I haven't updated the versions in a while so IDK why something would pop up now

Not yet! I'm working it as I type this, though. (Currently a few days off of refurbishing Alan's route, finishing up Barry's redesign at the moment before I get pulled away to a funeral for a week :V )

Holdup I recognize your username, you're not seriously still hung up on the daxhush art change are you?

I'm pretty confident in it, but I think the effect might be at its best when paired with backgrounds drawn similar to the sprites themselves. There aren't many of those backgrounds in the game yet though :V

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Merry Christmas!

I'm doin ok, Jehu's route is nearly fully updated (finally)! Turns out the writing is much more tedious than I expected :V Thanks for keeping tabs though o7

Not at the moment, but I'll look into getting one made up (be it by my or by someone else) :X

yep! I'm doing fine, just workin on it more. I hope I can get it out soon enough QwQ

Don't I know it qwq

I promise it's coming, I've finally got all of the sprite work done! CGs are next alongside some writing updates, mainly at the start but also some stuff sprinkled around later. At the moment I'm detailing my plans for all the routes so I have something concrete to look back on, but that does mean I can't really show off that kind of progress.

It's happening though, I swear! I'll make a post here, on twitter, and anywhere else I can imagine once this relaunch thing is finally done. Then we can finally get back on track!

I really want to get this all done by or in October of this year. Thanks for holding on, but please hold on just a bit longer! 

(Sorry for the late reply!) 

Not quite yet, no. I do really want to get the update out around October, but I  wouldn't really expect it to be any sooner than then. I'll make a comment here and a dev log shortly before I post the update, and I'll tweet out the announcement on this game's twitter page here!

Thanks for checking in! I apologize for the wait, but I'm honestly really glad to see that, even since your last comment, you're still looking forward to the update! I hope the quality of the future update will meet or surpass your expectations C:

I'm not entirely sure! I still have a whole lot of stuff to get done before I can think about moving forward with updates. I'll make a post in advance when I think I'm close to doing the relaunch o7

hes literally not even a bird anymore

He's still going to be extremely adorable, it'll just be layered underneath a bit of a stand-offish behavior :> He'll be much the same person he is/was before, just a lil deeper down and harder to see at the start

New devlog on the current state of the game and all my plans for the relaunch, plus some extra insight into some of the changes coming to Sihai. If you're interested in what I've been up to, please check it out!

https://iglootheraptor.itch.io/sihais-legacy/devlog/542820/status-update-6823

I'm doing well enough, been getting some work done on the next update. I've got some pretty big news about something real important (it's Jorge), but I need to clean things up some before I make that announcement in a more public setting. I'll be posting something to twitter about it within the next few days, though!

Hello! Sorry for the late reply /o\

I've got a whole bunch of work done (not as much as I would like, though), nicely rounding out until past the 3rd day.  I've updated a lot of sprites (see Rob, Richard, and Jorge on twitter) heavily and some minorly (Jehu, for example, got some lighter belly fur but that's it). Some CGs have also been updated, namely everything within the first two days with an addition or two as well.

Look, Paul!

Unfortunately my progress has kinda been curb-stomped by my wild ability to get sick :v

Now that I'm only dealing with one health issue instead of two at once, I've been at my tablet more and more and have even figured out a pretty good idea how I might be able to fix up the gallery! I still have a good ways to go before I can do the full re-launch I would like to do.

Just to make sure I'm clear: I plan on fixing up this game's page and advertising and stuff as soon as I'm able to comfortably release this game to the public in its new form. This means not only updating the writing for the first 5 days (where I feel it needs the most work), but also updating the art from then on, making sure it falls within my standards. I still have a while yet, but I'm confident in saying that most of the writing is finished up, and now it's mostly just art.

I hope that helps answer your question, and thank you for the kind words!

thank you ☺️ It really means a lot to me to get encouragement like this. I'll make it better than you could ever believe, mark my words!

Not between MC and Richard, if that's what you're asking. If I remember correctly, there is some dad content between Jehu and Paul though

Let's see... at the point that the F2P version is, I think the closest you get to You Know What with Alan is the gloryhole scene? I think his route is lacking somewhat in the saucier options for the moment, but I want to make sure each route is nicely saturated with you know what :-)

If everything goes smoothly, yep! I'll do my best

Mostly because it was a massive issue to maintain, same with no longer being able to pick the MC's gender. In the end, I picked the MC that I (and many others, since I took a poll and all) felt best about and updated that to higher standards.

Ah, apparently I forgot to actually move the images folder over.  I'll fix that in a moment

Thank you! The routes right now are "just" Jehu, Paul, Alan, Shen, and Jorge yeah. Even though that's the case, I still plan on having some fun content for side characters (especially Eiji! He's very fun to write)

Pick the beer, but don't pick Isaac at the start of the day :y

Oh! I think that might be a small bug I forgot to address where the number doesn't change. It should go from 19th -> 20th at the top right, but unfortunately I kinda goofed something up and it winds up showing the 19th again. The contents of the 20th is the day where Isaac shows up, don't worry!

(Sorry for the late reply!) I just checked and it should be moving onto the next day as it should.)

If it ends right after the choice about the door, then I think re-download it.  If the problem still persists, I'll look into it some more

thank you!! I'm glad to hear it :D

Red exclamation marks mean "this is important!" (I'll have a better tell for it later)

when something is bad, I'll have the text in all red o/

That's odd, maybe try reinstalling? (If you haven't already)

Thank you! o7 I'm glad you like them, and I hope you like the next ones too~

Ack, that's weird. I can look into it, but I don't have an android myself to test things out on :[

The art was originally done by my friend Daxhush and much of it was commissioned. However, he couldn't continue being the project's artist due to issues involving costs, investment (both time and money), motivation, and the sheer scope of this project. I think it was a little over a year ago now when I had to take over as the artist for Sihai :B

Originally it was just something I wanted to have, letting people pick what body type they felt worked for them. Unfortunately, it wound up being far too much work on top of not feeling right to me as the main character's, well, character progressed. :B I don't know if I'll be bringing it back or not, but chances are that MC'll have a more defined, singular appearance.

Very odd :x tapping the "show basic menu" should let you access what you need in order to play the game. Maybe try re-installing if that doesn't work?

That's odd. Maybe re-download the file? I just ran my build and downloaded the F2P build and it worked fine