Hello everyone, Keyko here, today's an important day. Moonlight Castle's first build was released TODAY! And that means I'll give you a little early treat and push Dylan 4's release a week earlier than usual. We poured a lot of work into this build, optimization, adjusting old content, buffing pre-existing routes and some additional CG as well. 

I have some special announcements to make today on Discord, so you should seriously consider coming in if you want a teaser for a route you really like, I'm hoping to give a little something to everyone, but I might not have food for all.

So, let's first discuss what's new.
Dylan 4 comes in with 16k words, 70% of it is completely unique (Check reading guide at the bottom.)
2 New CGs
2 New sprites added
Dylan's Day 3 has been adjusted to welcome the new change (Both A and B side)
Dylan's 3A has been changed according to feedback received from Q&A (You really want to see it.)

DAY 2+ IS ALSO AVAILABLE! (The changes stop by the end of campfire, just a lil bit before route choice.)
Yep. I worked really hard, going through the entirety of Day 2 and just... removing what I didn't like, adding some new lines, rephrasing, fixing the pacing. It's not perfect, I might go look at it again in the future, but it's a huge jump forward in terms of quality.
If you're not planning to give it a read, I'm okay with that, but you should know that Joel's character has been adjusted and his interactions have changed, ESPECIALLY CLYDE. If you're interested into Clyde 4 reading their new scenes is essential.
TL DR Joel and Clyde have been buffed, check out their new lines and interactions!

The credits section has some additional art for you to look at. (Thank you ZeroTigg for the doodles.)
The game's been optimized! You can see how the file size dropped by 30%? I'm bad at math. Comparing Nostalgia check to this build and you see a whopping 50% decrease. TL DR Backgrounds have been chopped down and the music was changed from Mp3 to ogg. (Dw the art hasn't been touched.)

Liam's handbook received some bug fixes and the unlocks have been adjusted. There are now 3 unique unlocks for it. N3, P4 and Dy4. (Play all the way to the end to get them.)

Reading guide for multirouters
- You can skip the Nia scene, nothing drastically changes, but a few lines to keep it consistent.
- By the time Dylan shows up you wanna start reading for new lines and interactions.
- 100% new content by the time you leave Saffron's Stash.
- Night gathering plays the same (the beginning is unique.)
- Ryan car has a different phrasing but same direction

Plans for the future and miscellaneous
So... we have a 200 goal on Patreon, reaching it will unlock Russell's CGs
Next month Ryan 5 drops on Patreon (The reason is assets, remaining D4s require new characters.)
Fixing N2s, early D3s and then re-reading the whole novel again for further grammar fixes
Please report anything you think it's worth fixing. I will go look at it. (The sooner I get this done the more I can focus on future content.)
4th Q&A Planned for next year. I'm thinking after Liam 4, but it may change.
I updated the moonlight castle tier list with all the known characters so far from all the routes. You might want to play Dylan 3A first though? Unless you don't care then go ahead.

I feel like I'm forgetting something... this ALWAYS happens. But, well, there were a lot of things planned today and my brain is frying.