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The main highlight of the 2025 Showcase was the announcement of version update 1.8, named the &quot;Sunshine Update&quot;, revealing that among other things, Sunny, a fan favourite character will be a new partner character, along with a new story quest involving her.</p> +<p>The reveal of Sunny being promoted from a minor NPC who only appears in a minor side quest to a playable partner character took me by surprise, because Bytten Studio, the developers of <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> had never hinted at any possibility of adding new partner characters before. In fact, Jay Baylis, the art director of Bytten Studio, had <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/14nvsiu/comment/jq9hy3n/?context=3">stated in Bytten Studio's AMA on the r/NintendoSwitch Subreddit on 1 July 2023</a> that:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>[...]the current number of partner characters is baked into the design of the game in a number of ways, making it very difficult to organically add new ones in.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Therefore, it speaks of the power of Sunny's popularity among the player base that she became the first new playable character since the game's launch in April 2023. Unsurprisingly, Sunny fans are expressing immense excitement over the news, because wishing Sunny had a larger role in the game, including becoming a partner, has been a common sentiment among Sunny fans, with some fans even expressing disappointment that Sunny only got a brief role in the game, and questioning why.</p> +<p>The reason why Sunny initially had little screen time and content was that she was added late into the game's development and only intended by Bytten Studio as a little side story after Eugene's quest to surprise players. Bytten Studio never intended Sunny to have a huge role or much content, and they did not expect Sunny would become this popular in the player base.</p> +<figure class="c-blockquote"> +<blockquote cite="https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/14nvsiu/ama_we_are_bytten_studio_the_developers_of/jq9mwtq/"> +<p>We believe that a lot of the secret sauce for Cassette Beasts' appeal is in its ability to surprise the player in various ways, so things don't get too predictable. Sunny is a character that I wrote into the game quite late, as I had envisioned her whole sequence of events as being something unexpected and funny that you wouldn't expect happening as a consequence of the questline that proceeds it. Sunny's appearance is, ultimately, just a fun little side story that I cooked up to add some more flavour to the goings-on in Harbourtown. However, it's clear that she's very popular for a character who appears in exactly two cutscenes, which isn't something we entirely expected!</p> +</blockquote> +<figcaption class="c-blockquote__attribution">Jay Baylis (u/SamuriFerret). <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/14nvsiu/ama_we_are_bytten_studio_the_developers_of/jq9mwtq/">Comment</a> during Bytten Studio's AMA on the r/NintendoSwitch Subreddit. 1 July 2023.</figcaption> +</figure> +<figure class="c-blockquote"> +<blockquote cite="https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1bniroh/comment/kwjb7w4/"> +<p>[...]in hindsight, given her popularity in the community, we all wish we'd given Sunny more screen-time. She was a late, unplanned addition as we neared the release.</p> +</blockquote> +<figcaption class="c-blockquote__attribution">Tom Coxon (u/tcoxon). <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1bniroh/comment/kwjb7w4/">Comment</a> during Bytten Studio's AMA on the r/JRPG Subreddit. 26 March 2024.</figcaption> +</figure> +<figure class="c-blockquote"> +<blockquote cite="https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1bniroh/comment/kwmb4j4/"> +<p>Sunny was a late addition to the game as I pitched a short storyline involving the gang rehabilitating a Landkeeper after Eugene's quest. It's very apparent we underestimated how popular she'd turn out to be!</p> +</blockquote> +<figcaption class="c-blockquote__attribution">Jay Baylis. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1bniroh/comment/kwmb4j4/">Comment</a> during Bytten Studio's AMA on the r/JRPG Subreddit. 26 March 2024.</figcaption> +</figure> +<p>Questions about Sunny only getting a minor role were asked by players frequently enough that I even compiled the developers' response in <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/cassettebeasts/facts/">my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> shrine's Facts page</a>, so I can link to it whenever I see someone asked the same questions about Sunny. Now that Sunny would become a partner character, meaning thankfully questions and complaints about Sunny's minor role could finally stop, I have removed those form the Facts page, but not before <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250120094054/https://leilukin.com/shrines/cassettebeasts/facts/#sunnys-lack-of-screen-time-and-content">saving the page to the Internet Archive</a> for reference.</p> +<p>I like Sunny too, as I appreciate the concept of a character getting deprogrammed from capitalism and starting a new life beyond capitalism, which makes a good addition to <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite>'s leftist messages. In fact, Sunny's in-game character title, which can be seen if she appears as an opponent in Magikrab's Gauntlet, is &quot;Recovering Capitalist&quot;. However, to be honest, I had always been fine with Sunny only having a minor role in the game, and I did not care as much as other Sunny fans did about the idea of her becoming a partner character.</p> +<p>Why? The main reason is that it would not be a poor game design in terms of the game's pacing. Sunny only shows up after you completed the personal questline of Eugene, one of the partner characters available since the game's launch. Eugene's personal quest is already rather infamous for taking longer than every other base game partner character's quest to complete, as Eugene's quest requires the player to explore the majority of New Wirral, the main setting of <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite>, to track down and clear the Landkeeper Offices all over the map. This is not helped by the fact that you need to complete a partner's personal quest before you can raise your relationship level with them, so when you finally complete Eugene's quest, you may feel that you only have little time left to raise Eugene's relationship level with you before facing the final boss of the game.</p> +<p>Therefore, the idea of making Sunny a partner character means having a partner locked behind another partner's questline that already took up a huge chunk of the game to complete. Making Sunny a partner in the base game would make it feel like you only have little time to spend with Sunny before facing the final boss of the game.</p> +<p>I believed that if Sunny were to become a partner character, making her unlocked as a partner in the post-game would be better than doing so in the base game. Fortunately, this appears to be Bytten Studio's approach for making Sunny a partner character in the &quot;Sunshine Update&quot;, as revealed in <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1321440/view/543351239572719532">their Steam post announcing the content update</a>:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>Sunny's quest will be available to those who have finished the base game's story</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Learning that Sunny was a late addition to the game during the game's development only cemented my feelings that I was fine with Sunny having little screen time in the game. To be honest, if I were the developers, I would not expect a minor NPC I added to my game only at the last minute to become this popular with the players either.</p> +<p>With all that being said, I am looking forward to recruiting Sunny as a partner and exploring her story more in the &quot;Sunshine Update&quot;. Partner characters are a major appeal of <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> to me, so I welcome more content updates involving partner characters.</p> + + Changelog: 25 March 2025 2025-03-25T13:51:02Z @@ -169,26 +219,6 @@ <p>Together we will live the best life we can possibly have. 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Since the &quot;mi&quot; (<span lang="zh">米</span>) in Xiaomi's Chinese name <span lang="zh">小米</span> also means rice in Chinese, my parents jokingly referred to my father buying a new Redmi Note smartphone as &quot;buying rice&quot; (<span lang="zh">买米</span>).</p> -<p>My parents and I have been Xiaomi customers for years since we purchased our first Redmi Note budget smartphones. My current smartphone is Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G, so I used my Redmi smartphone to set up my Xiaomi smartwatch as well. Yes, the photo above of me wearing Xiaomi Smart Band 9 was taken with the camera in my Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G.</p> -<p>As I have entered my 30s, my parents have encouraged me to do my best to take good care of my health before it is too late. Recently during Lunar New Year, my eldest paternal aunt commented that I had gained weight since the last time she saw me nearly a year ago. 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    On 27 March 2025 in Western time zones and 12 a.m. on 28 March 2025 in my time zone, the 2025 edition of Cassette Beasts Showcase, an annual video presentation in which news and updates about Cassette Beasts are shared, was aired on the game's publisher Raw Fury's YouTube channel. The main highlight of the 2025 Showcase was the announcement of version update 1.8, named the "Sunshine Update", revealing that among other things, Sunny, a fan favourite character will be a new partner character, along with a new story quest involving her.

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    The reveal of Sunny being promoted from a minor NPC who only appears in a minor side quest to a playable partner character took me by surprise, because Bytten Studio, the developers of Cassette Beasts had never hinted at any possibility of adding new partner characters before. In fact, Jay Baylis, the art director of Bytten Studio, had stated in Bytten Studio's AMA on the r/NintendoSwitch Subreddit on 1 July 2023 that:

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    The reason why Sunny initially had little screen time and content was that she was added late into the game's development and only intended by Bytten Studio as a little side story after Eugene's quest to surprise players. Bytten Studio never intended Sunny to have a huge role or much content, and they did not expect Sunny would become this popular in the player base.

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    Sunny was a late addition to the game as I pitched a short storyline involving the gang rehabilitating a Landkeeper after Eugene's quest. It's very apparent we underestimated how popular she'd turn out to be!

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    Questions about Sunny only getting a minor role were asked by players frequently enough that I even compiled the developers' response in my Cassette Beasts shrine's Facts page, so I can link to it whenever I see someone asked the same questions about Sunny. Now that Sunny would become a partner character, meaning thankfully questions and complaints about Sunny's minor role could finally stop, I have removed those form the Facts page, but not before saving the page to the Internet Archive for reference.

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    I like Sunny too, as I appreciate the concept of a character getting deprogrammed from capitalism and starting a new life beyond capitalism, which makes a good addition to Cassette Beasts's leftist messages. In fact, Sunny's in-game character title, which can be seen if she appears as an opponent in Magikrab's Gauntlet, is "Recovering Capitalist". However, to be honest, I had always been fine with Sunny only having a minor role in the game, and I did not care as much as other Sunny fans did about the idea of her becoming a partner character.

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    Why? The main reason is that it would not be a poor game design in terms of the game's pacing. Sunny only shows up after you completed the personal questline of Eugene, one of the partner characters available since the game's launch. Eugene's personal quest is already rather infamous for taking longer than every other base game partner character's quest to complete, as Eugene's quest requires the player to explore the majority of New Wirral, the main setting of Cassette Beasts, to track down and clear the Landkeeper Offices all over the map. This is not helped by the fact that you need to complete a partner's personal quest before you can raise your relationship level with them, so when you finally complete Eugene's quest, you may feel that you only have little time left to raise Eugene's relationship level with you before facing the final boss of the game.

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    Therefore, the idea of making Sunny a partner character means having a partner locked behind another partner's questline that already took up a huge chunk of the game to complete. Making Sunny a partner in the base game would make it feel like you only have little time to spend with Sunny before facing the final boss of the game.

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    I believed that if Sunny were to become a partner character, making her unlocked as a partner in the post-game would be better than doing so in the base game. Fortunately, this appears to be Bytten Studio's approach for making Sunny a partner character in the "Sunshine Update", as revealed in their Steam post announcing the content update:

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    Learning that Sunny was a late addition to the game during the game's development only cemented my feelings that I was fine with Sunny having little screen time in the game. To be honest, if I were the developers, I would not expect a minor NPC I added to my game only at the last minute to become this popular with the players either.

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    With all that being said, I am looking forward to recruiting Sunny as a partner and exploring her story more in the "Sunshine Update". Partner characters are a major appeal of Cassette Beasts to me, so I welcome more content updates involving partner characters.

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    Android and iOS version confirmed to be released on January 15, with an announcement trailer.
    15 January 2025
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    Furthermore, Godot 3 (the game engine Cassette Beasts is made in) is not easy to port, and cannot be done "out the box" - it requires an external partnership to do so (unlike engines like Unity and Unreal). Only a handful of Godot games had been ported to Switch before Cassette Beasts and they were all 2D games. Cassette Beasts is the first game developed from the ground up as a 3D Godot game to ever be ported to console. This has been a huge challenge for both us and, more importantly, the porting team we've worked with! What's more, every update and DLC made takes longer to release with every platform you add.

    This doesn't mean that porting to Playstation won't/cannot ever happen, but we wouldn't promise anything unless we knew for sure. Game development is a series of trade-offs, and decisions like this aren't really made down to personal preference for platforms - personally, I mostly play games on PS5 at the moment.

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    Sunny, a minor NPC who appears after the completion of Eugene's quest line, has become immensely popular in the player base despite her limited screen time, wishing she could have a larger role in the game, most commonly to become a partner, with some players even expressing disappointment that Sunny only gets a minor role in the game, and questioning why.

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    The reason why Sunny has little screen time and content was that she was added late into the game's development and only intended by Bytten Studio as a little side story after Eugene's quest to surprise players. Bytten Studio never intended Sunny to have a huge role or much content, and they did not expect Sunny would become this popular in the player base.

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    We believe that a lot of the secret sauce for Cassette Beasts' appeal is in its ability to surprise the player in various ways, so things don't get too predictable. Sunny is a character that I wrote into the game quite late, as I had envisioned her whole sequence of events as being something unexpected and funny that you wouldn't expect happening as a consequence of the questline that proceeds it. Sunny's appearance is, ultimately, just a fun little side story that I cooked up to add some more flavour to the goings-on in Harbourtown. However, it's clear that she's very popular for a character who appears in exactly two cutscenes, which isn't something we entirely expected!

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