Version 1.7 Overhaul

It's been a while, huh? This update took so long to make because I was too busy with work and YouTube to make the December story during December. And that made it harder to work up the drive to work on it until May, which is a busy YouTube month for me. June turned out to be a good time to come back to it, though, between Pride Month and the P3 Reload leak and subsequent announcement.

But I felt a simple return with one new chapter wouldn't be enough, so I opted to take my ideas for overhauling the UI that were planned for the final release to send the project off with a bang, and do it now for the return of the project.

1. The first big addition to this build is the new animated menu provided by FemSee. The old menu was something of a relic of the original conceit that I was trying to fool the reader into thinking this was a ShuYuka story before pulling the rug out. I don't think anyone's going into this project with that idea anymore, so have a nice animated menu of the two leading ladies to help set the mood. And go give Fem a commission because this thing is incredible.
2. Second is the overhaul of the menus. Previously, as a beginner, I created makeshift menus for selecting stories and behind-the-scenes sections. Now, I've added those to the main menu, with the previous type only being used to select main story chapters, bonus chapters and versions in the BTS menu.
3. The UI has been overhauled to imitate P3's, from altering the colour and font of the text, to the P3 textbox. I think it came out rather well. It no longer screams ''Made in Ren'Py''." The font is not exactly the same as P3 and 4, but it does evoke the feeling. If anyone knows the actual P3 font, please let me know for future builds.
4. I've replaced the text-based date transition screens with screenshots of the day transition screens from Persona 3. I think it works much better.
5. I've also added a pan effect to the Bridal Carry CG, rather than just having a static cropped version for the scene and leaving the full image for the credits. Likewise, I can also do zooms now, which you'll be seeing with one of the new CGs.
6. I also realised that I've been using mostly the same music tracks since the beginning, so I found a few more P3 tracks to use and distributed those where they fit for some more musical variety. I mean, I didn't even have 'Joy' or 'Changing Seasons' in this thing? It's not P3 without those two."
7. And finally, we have the new bonus story, Living With Determination, which details Yukari and Mitsuru's struggles with the big Ryoji-based decision in December. Both new CGs were provided by Thanos Pagkidis.

And that's it for this update.

For future updates, I don't plan to proceed monthly, as I was last year. That was because the updates happened to align with the timeframe of the new chapters' events, which felt like a cool idea. Without that, I'll be proceeding at a more reserved pace, which should hopefully help avoid burnout.

Also, the 30th of June marks the first anniversary of this project's initial release. Hopefully, it'll all be wrapped up before the second anniversary.