seki108

Finished the first stage of FMW 4 (56th stage overall).  Overall just a starting stage to catch up some of your falling behind units, featuring Team 9 playing a prank and dragging a new character alonge; though Rumia and Mystia are surprisingly difficult bosses because of their fields.

They added a few new features from more modern SRW games, such as the Sub-Order system (Z2--2011)  to further help catch up lagging units  and  Full-Power mode, which simulates the Maximum Break function (2nd OG--2012, though it works more like the system from Z3--2014).

There is also new difficulty slider added, which adds sub-options to the already existing Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties.   The new sub-sections (Basic, Standard and Challenger) can be changed in the intermission menu, allowing existing carryover saves (which are locked to one difficulty) to have some change.  I think Hard-Standard is the base Hard diffulty, which adds in Bosses regularly using spirits (SP) that the player normally uses;  this has been a feature in Lunatic since the beginning.    Lunatic difficulty apparently isn't affected by this slider, but I'm not touching that difficulty with a 10-and-a-half foot pole.

Really, I just wanted to make this post to comment about the final layer of polish they added: 

--From the into screen showing a panning shot of several major canon areas (the Human village, Starlet Devil Mansion, the Shrines, ect) and what appears to be a non-canon one (the scarred landscape from the last mission) 

--Adding more variations to character portraits to those who hadn't already gotten some added (ei Reimu).  Also a good reaction image to this change

--Adding these NEW tabs to everything new post-mission in the intermission menu (and even a tab to separate returning characters)