The world breathes — birds, fireflies and firelight move through your scenes

Walk into a scene now and it's alive. Depending on where you are, a loose flock of birds glides across the sky, warm fireflies wander and twinkle, a drip of water lands and rings out two spreading ripples, or firelight flickers and pools nearby. Every walking scene — story and battle alike — has its own effect picked to suit it, so standing still no longer feels like standing in a painting.

The hand-inked frame from the chapter loading screens is now the border on more of the game, too. Arena fight columns and the detail cards — for a spell or item, a crafting material, an enemy — used to sit inside straight geometric borders; they now wear the same wobbling inked box, each one drawn a little differently so no two cards' edges are quite alike.

And the opening stretch where your first heroes join you — Olija, then Nell, Tara and Grey — no longer stops for a loading screen at every step. It used to throw a full loading cover onto the street each time a hero joined, on a street you were already standing on. Now that walk plays straight through.