Cheesemaster Games has released a new update for its cozy bathhouse game, Spirittea. This patch brings some more life into i??ts residents by adding more animations for characters. This may seem like a minor thing, but, in retrospect, the world lacked a bit of life, so this could be a big help.

That’s not all the update does, how?ever. It also introduces a “recovery shrine�for whenever you lose an important quest item. And, hm�I’m going to just paste the patch notes here and w?e can talk after. See you after the bullet points.

• Fixed bug where large bath would remain frozen if heaters were placed on left or right side of bath
• Finished adding Gale's, Jan's, Julian's, Kenzo’s, Ling’s, Maru’s and Kim’s animations
• Changed how the shovel, net and rod look in water reflections
• Fixed crashes around wind and atmosphere audio
• Fixed a bug where blank spots in Fenias's shop would appear as a value of -1 if the player scrolled vertically
• If an item disappears when moving between rooms, a pop up now occurs to highlight to the developers there has been an issue. The player will then be holding an invisible object rather than the game crashing like before.
• Fixed an issue where Kim’s quest doesn’t count buying the small retro TV in progressing the quest
• Added in all the new localised text!
• Added a new face to the character customisation at the start of the game
• Changed the photocamera to being purchasable just one from the shop, but also from the new recovery shrine
• Removed brooms from Song’s shop and made them available at the recovery shrine
• Changed the duck statue in the lord room to hopefully stop it from eating people’s items!
• Added the item recovery shrine/shop to the stone shrine to the left of the town shop. Key items can be re-bought there if they're somehow lost
• Added a backup for Miko’s quest in case spirit is teleported out of bounds, so the player can still complete the quest
• Added the ability to clean and re-clean the duck debris around duck nests (though it returns after 5 days due to ducks losing feathers)
• Fixed the friendships achievement triggering when raising friendship naturally in game (not loading from the main menu)
• Removed the dust in the bathhouse which was unreachable for players to clean up
• Fixed the bug where trying to remove multiple objects from the fridge or storage chest, with a full backpack, resulted in one of the object being created at the player's feet
• Added 3 atmospheric cicada sound effects for summer
• Removed friendship gained from digging at a spot already dug up
• Fixed a bug where if the season changed to spring or summer and Jillian or Yari came to town, they wouldn't have the correct friendship level (unless the game was re-loaded from the main menu)
• Boosted pumpkin grow chance from 30% to 70%

Welcome back. When I reviewed Spirittea I was pretty harsh on it. Okay, I was very harsh on it. I felt that it wasn’t really all that cozy, just very dull. I also admitted that what I might find boring might be exactly ??what someone else finds relaxing, but, from my perspective, it needed a lot?? of work. Work is being done, which is always cool to see. However, I think it will need a few more updates before I’m willing to jump back in.

Spirittea is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switc??h, and PC.

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