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The King of Summer v 0.6.6-early now out for Dandy Patrons and Above!

Added 2026-01-06 02:22:08 +0000 UTC

At long last, the next King of Summer update is here, with (most) of the festival event's finale!

Because it took me several more days to publish than usual, I decided to go the extra mile and pull a few all-nighters to add as much content to this release as possible. As a result, it's almost as long as most prior full releases, with several h-scenes worth of content, featuring Mary, Natsuki and Rin.

There's a few character moments sprinkled around. When it comes to Mary, I tried to use this event to kind of fill in some gaps in her logic leading up to her Kendo Ending decision. I tried to give some thought to what eventually made her decide to let Satoshi find out the truth in such a way. There was a little to say about that, but not too much. I've sprinkled a little foreshadowing about some actions she might take during the final ending of the game.

I'd say the biggest character focus lies on Natsuki, her feelings for Kendo, and how she tries to reconcile them with her feelings for Yoshi. The answer she arrives to is obviously twisted, which you'll see in a number of ways. It was interesting to think about how far she was willing to go vs. how much Yoshi was actually willing to put up with. Is his patience truly endless, or will she actually push beyond his limits at some point? I want events in this update to make people think about it. Just a little.

Obviously, the MAIN focus are the scenes. Just a bunch of positions and frenetic action. I've been holding back quite a bit during most of the festival event, for the sole reason of allowing the girls and Kendo to go all out for the finale. I think I enjoy the structure I chose for this final sequence of events more than the final sequence of the Camping Trip. But you'll have your own opinions.

Next week, I think Isle of Fall? It's kind of complete, but as I've said before, my times to dev are changing wildly from day to day. Sometimes I rarely have time to write, others I manage to find several hours (usually by pulling all nighters when my health allows).

Hopefully the length of this update makes up for the wait.

Have a nice week, everyone!

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v 0.6.6-early contains:
- End part of "Summer's End" festival event.
- 1 story scene, in which all characters involved talk.
- 1 long h-scene (Kendo x Mary x Natsuki x Rin).
  - Segments in the middle detailing Satoshi's and Yoshi's POV.
- 1 group scene with Rin as focus.
- 1 group scene with Mary as focus.
- 1 group scene with Natsuki as focus.
- Option to go back to festival from the final menu.
- 110+ new CGs/renders (including variations).
- 55+ new animation/videos (including variations),
- 20k+ words of dialogue and narration.
- 6 scenes added to gallery in total.
- Some typos fixed.