• When starting a new game, you will be presented with a menu with three options: default or custom party, tutorials on or off, and play or skip prologue. If you choose to skip the prologue, you will begin the game at headquarters with immediate access to the first dungeon. You will start at level 2 with some Rm, but no other treasure from the subway. Tutorials can still be controlled from the options menu at any time, as before.
• Swordbreaker now correctly reduces enemy attack power.
• Combined the encounter tutorial event with the first encounter event.
• Cleaned up some unused state flags in save data.

• You can now hold down a movement direction to continuously move in that direction. You can also turn or sidestep without interrupting your movement. This also works for the on-screen movement buttons.
• Added a preview of key skills to aspect descriptions during character creation.
• Condensed, revised, or removed some text events in the subway for better pacing.
• Replaced the bronze glaive in the subway with a second leather whip. This should be more useful for most parties who want more ranged weapons than they start with.
• Fixed analog noise causing duplicate button input on some devices.
• Fixed input only respecting the first controller in some circumstances.
• Fixed the movement buttons appearing over Crowe's dialogue menu after closing the shop menu.
• The menu prompt is now less sensitive to analog noise.
• Improved the art and animation for the movement buttons.

• Shield Wall now terminates correctly.
• Random encounters now correctly reset when leaving and re-entering the dungeon.
• Fixed minor misalignments on some enemy status indicators.
• Fixed a tutorial-only event symbol in Hospital 1E being visible with tutorials disabled.
• Fixed map icons for tutorial-only events being visible with tutorials disabled.
• Fixed false wall map indicators not resetting when starting a new game after quitting to menu.
• Removed a visible out-of-bounds event symbol from Hospital 1C.

This update fixes an issue where the accept button would close the active menu instead of confirming the current selection if accept was bound to the same key as the currently open menu (e.g. X is bound to both accept and the skill menu). Accept now has priority over menu hotkeys. This was already the case for the cancel button. Menus such as the map screen that have no selectable GUI controls will behave the same as before.

This update fixes a lock that could occur when interacting with the optional switch at the end of the subway. Very sorry about that!

The free demo of Minerva Labyrinth is now available! In the demo, you'll be able to attain the fourth level of experience and explore three full dungeon levels: the prologue in the subway, plus the first two areas of the hospital. I hope you enjoy it, and I welcome any feedback you may have. Stay tuned for details on the full release!