Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest News

After 4 and half years of a teeth-grinding journey of solo-development, Magenta Horizon has become a complete work.
Here's a list of contents of this final form.

• About 15-20 hours to finish on your first play through of Wraith(default) difficulty.
  
• Character can use all the different techniques from the start, so depending on the player's knowledge, it can be vastly shortened.
  
• More play times will be driven from mastering the combat and getting the better scores.
  

• Total Three Acts.
  
• 6 Linear combat-oriented stages
  
• 13 Non-linear exploration+combat stages
  
• 11 Main-line boss-specific stages
  
• 3 Hidden boss stages
  

• Total 65 Enemies in the Codex
  
• Total 19 Bosses, with two remixed re-fights and three hidden ones
  
• Total 46 normal chess pieces and two of them are minor version of some of the main bosses
  
• All the bosses and about half of the chess pieces get additional patterns or different AI flow on Reaper(+) difficulties
  

• Total 51 Steam Achievements on launch
  

• Total 1 Melee Weapons, 10 Ranged Skills
  
• Hard to calculate the exact moveset number because of the web-like combo structure, but about 50+ melee movement branches can be weaved with just one weapon combat system
  8 Ranged Skills can interact each other and create about 10+ different unique combinations
  

• Total 28 Necklace Pieces
  
• 17 can be found from explorations and beating the challenge rooms
  
• 10 can be purchased from the in-game store
  
• Only one of them can be obtained by completing a certain side mission
  

• Boss Rush (Fully unlocks after finding all the bosses)
  
• Horde Mode (Opened from the start)
  

• Controller rumbling
  
• 4 localization supports. English, Korean, Portuguese (BR), and Russian.
  
• Better tutorial segment
  
• Much better-written dialogues
  

[To-do list]

• More localization coming soon
  
• Full album will be updated within this weekend
  

Due to the following reasons, the announcement for the 1.0 version is slightly delayed.
- irl happening (if you saw the news, you would know what is happening in Korea)
- need to prepare the fully localized store page
- need to prepare the full soundtrack
- need to prepare the new demo build


The announcement time follows:
December 7, 2024 at 8:00 AM (KST)
December 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM (CT)

PS. Just to specify again. I said the "announcement" was delayed. *wink wink*

Happy Halloween, reapers! Here are some patch notes.

• A boss stage 10-3 is added. Just to give a closure to stage 10 before the final release.
  
• Added the body part destruction mechanic to the boss in 7-2.
  
• Lower the number of spewing goo pools in the boss room in 7-2 below Reaper difficulty.
  
• Fixed a bug where Harvest of Focus didn't do a shit. ....Yes, you heard that right. Harvest of Focus hasn't been working for the whole development time. Instead, the focus gain was activated by Harvest of Life. It really shows my developer skill.
  
• From now on maintaining over S rank makes you charge up all the focus meters automatically (on every difficulty). Nesting Focus enhances that effect.
  
• Enhanced the Dread Vines HP threshold to match the critical health indicator. (30% of the normal health is where the indicator starts blinking)
  

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The spirit of Halloween will go further beyond October and invade the winter season.
Year 2024 December 5th will be the day when Magenta Horizon becomes a complete work.


[h2][What you can expect from the Full Release][/h2]

• Full Act 3
  
• Compared to the current 0.9 version, three new bosses will be added
  
• Fully functioning Ascended Reaper difficulty
  

[h2][What you can expect, but don't set your hope too high][/h2]

• Additional localizations including Korean, Mexican Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and more... (some languages can be delayed later)
  
• Better tutorials
  

Enjoy the spooky Halloween, and I'll see you again in the freezing winter night....

- "trial version" watermark at the bottom right is removed.
- Fixed the disjointed hitbox of the slime serpent hazards in Stage 10. Also added visual tells that can make you guess the attack direction from the off-screen.
- Fixed a bug where Wraith Orangutan could start the on-landing smash attack without any telegraphs.
- Added the crumbling platforms on the last boss arena in 10-2 so that players can reach to certain targets without relying on pogo-ing the boss's body.