A month is coming to an end, a new update for Star Knightess Aura is coming out! The update focuses primarily on the following aspects:

• Improving the quality. Instead of just the static images, you will now find that Aura is much more emotive! Her collar is now also displayed and removed when she takes it off to unleash the Star Knightess. Going through the game and adding all the correct expressions took some time, since we have already reached 50k+ words, but was worth every second!
  Besides that you will find lots of small details in better use of sound effects, lots of typo fixes, fixes of minor glitches and so forth.

• Balancing improvements. Thanks for everybody who gave me feedback!
  Thanks to you, I was able to work out what feels like a much better gameplay experience.
  The corruption limit has been lowered to 25, so watch your step, but at the same time the corruption limit can be increased by advancing through the story. With Blessed Water becoming less of a scam, Apples more nutritious than ever, and various new loot that you will find in the new area (more about that below) I hope that the game opens up much more room for creative play!
  The alchemist is also a bit less mean, as he now gives a 10% discount on the day that you supply him with some materials.
  Finally, the first demon boss fight has been reworked a lot.
  Overall, it is now possible to defeat pretty much all enemies without having to use the Star Knightess – if you keep on thinking, that is!

• New area in the Forest of Runes. I hope that I can say this kind of sentence in every major update. Ideally, I want every update to contain at least one new major area. This doesn't need to be a dungeon area like this one here, but there should always be something cool to explore. This new area contains over 20 encounters, 3 of them being minibosses. One of them you will recognize as you can now try your hands on solo-fighting a spider queen. The other bosses are completely new and come with their own gimmicks.

• Clear room. This may sound like something that's coming way too early, but I prefer to close the game loop as soon as possible. Once you hit the end of content, you will now be teleported into the Clear Room.
  There you will gain access to the Recollection Room, where you can rewatch erotic scenes or get hints on how to unlock them, and you will be able to start a new game plus. Of course you can also continue on your current play through if you want to.
  Also, you will find a stone tablet that will tell you your Victory Score, that is how many bosses you managed to kill while keeping the number of lewd actions to a minimum. You can spend the score points to gain some bonuses for a new game plus. Try to find a way to gain the maximum score! Once you enter the Clear Room once, you will be given an item to re-enter it whenever you want.

• Real life scenes. If you check the changelog, you will see a bunch of new real life scenes. Meet George's family, follow Aura's hijinks in the world of Isekai novels, and watch new scenes reflecting Alicia's brainwashing!

In theory, you should be able to continue on your 0.3.1 save. However, the new automatic migration feature I implemented for this is still in an experimental stage, so please be aware of that! It should work! But... who knows! Only those who passed have passed beyond the end of content might find themselves in a bind, since they won't be able to access the clear room. So I would recommend to use a save, where you have not yet reported on the demon's defeat! Also I don't think migrating a save file during the Intro is going to work! So please keep that in mind for now.

As usual, if you have feedback, please let me know! Next major update will be on 27th of March. Depending on feedback and bug reports, there might be a 0.4.1 inbetween.

Also if you want to see more and higher quality content please consider supporting my patreon at https://www.patreon.com/auragamedev !
Otherwise you will looking at my artwork for a very long time. :)

Changelog v0.4.0 (27th February 2021)

• Added new area in the Forest of Runes
• Added expressions for Aura and Alicia standing images
• Added "Library Club Discussion 1" scene
• Added "Going Home With Rose 1" scene
• Added "Evening Chat With Alicia 1" scene
• Added "Evening Chat With Alicia 2" scene
• Added "Added Evening With George 3" scene
• Added "Aura Thinking 2" scene
• Added Clear Room
• Improved standing images
• Added collar variation for Aura standing image
• Implemented entering "Evening Chat Relationship"
• Reworked Corruption Limit into a dynamically increasing parameter
• Implemented support for automatic save migration
• Added "Slimy Oils" quest
• Removed Martial and Magic skill type during intro in demon castle
• Added appropriate sound effects during scene
• Added Recollection Room
• Added Albrecht backstory
• Reworked first demon fight
• Implemented victory score board in clear room
• Implemented NewGame+
• Implemented simple system for spending score on NewGame+ bonuses

Balancing

• Providing alchemist with ingredient now gives 10% discount for the day
• Rebalanced Apples: price 10 -> 5, HP regen 5 -> 15
• Enhancements at the workshop now increase by 10 Gold for every enhancement
• Reduced price of Blessed Water to 150 Gold
• Enhanced Tailwind I to last for 4 turns
• Buffed damage from Pierce I
• Nerfed Brittle I duration to last for 3 turns
• Increased Heat Up MP cost to 2 MP

Bugfixes

• Lots of minor glitches, editorial improvements, typo- and grammar fixes
• Fixed standing image not being properly erased after fadeout
• Fixed passability issues
• Fixed Red and Blue Orb being sellable
• Fixed some text descriptions for learnable skills
• Fixed Tactical Advantage not being triggered when 1-Hit killing an enemy
• Fixed Rampage not triggering critical hits
• Fixed Tailwind I taking up the preemptive attack turn