Roughly a month after the initial release, Last Second Save is now getting a Pristine Cut of its own!

The fangame has been endorsed by the lead of Cavemanon himself and its art got featured on Snootbooru's homepage.  Despite that, I wasn't ready to rest on my laurels just yet. The feedback I received, I took it to heart and improved upon LSS in as many ways as I could.

To those who are seeing the fangame for the first time - enjoy! You're seeing the fangame in its best shape. For returning players - I hope the sheer volume of changes will warrant a second playthrough for everyone.

New features

• SPANISH TRANSLATION!
  • courtesy of Legalo (official translator for Snoot Game and Wani)
• new bonus story "Little light of love" 
  • Samantha and Ripley have a heart-to-heart after Lucy and Reed leave for Ko-open Hagha
  • featuring new character sprites for Samantha and Ripley!
  • featuring new amazing artwork by _toad14!
  • unlocked by beating the game, should be available to people who have beaten LSS in the past
• select Lucy's hair color in the final few chapters
  • two hair colors - the original monochromatic weirdo or an oddly familiar shade of red
  • adds new dialogue to the game (Lucy reflecting on her "new" hair color)
• new Reed content in the dinner party chapter
  • retconned to have participated in Lucy's outing to Ko-open Hagha
  • unique outfit
  • selectable in the dinner table conversations
  • picking Reed unlocks a unique scene at the start of ch. 15 (nothing new past that point)
  • the rest of the dinner party is fleshed out to include Reed

• new outfit for Samantha
  • Samantha now wears a new indoors dress during the dinner party and the bonus story
  • an explanation as to why Ripley didn't get anything new is given
• 10 new main menu screens
  
  • including two artworks made by _toad14!
• 28 new hand-drawn artworks
  • mostly for chapters 1. and 2., the Reed route and the new bonus story
  • one new artwork in Caldera Holidays (Naomi sleeping on Naser's lap)
• updated "Queens of gossip" with new Rosa content
  • a new song number! (Seal - Kiss From a Rose)
  • a brief Rosa POV regarding prom
  • mildly touched up animation with the new Naomi sprites
  • 6 new Rosa sprite edits made just for the occasion
• updated "Closing thoughts" with content regarding how I handled Fang, Anon, Naser and Reed
• replaced the Dungeon Synth song from "A familiar face" with a new one:
  • old track - Erang - The Kingdom is Ours - When a Dragon is Born 
  • new track - Erang - The Kingdom is Ours - Drizzly Domain
• updated the LSS mind map with new content (available in game/images/other_mine)
  • the mind map has also been split into smaller images as the full resolution can be laggy/impossible to open on some software

UX/UI tweaks

• the "Bonus Story Unlocked" notification popup now shows the name of the unlocked bonus story
• adjusted the menu list so that "Making amends" and "A familiar face" are now in order of appearance
• "Thank you for playing!" has been replaced by "You have unlocked the remaining three bonus stories!"

Community contributions

• new wonderful outro song by Grazdech! (That Monochromatic Weirdo Jam)
• amazing fanart of Fangby _toad14 has been added as a new main menu screen
  • unlocked by seeing Fang in her GVH outfit for the first time

Narrative changes

(big thanks to Cavemanon lead "the nerd", that one 4chan anon, lil graz, toad_14 and Armored Porcupine for the feedback!)

(chapters names as seen in the Chapter Select menu)

MAJOR CHANGES

• heavily reworked the  first two chapters in order to improve Anon and Fang's story arc
  • done in response to feedback regarding LSS and how rushed" the E1 aspect" is
  • the worst possible SG playthrough is canon in LSS, but the original version didn't really capitalize on that much
  • Fang goes through a far more pronounced identity crisis  that recontextualizes the rest of the story
  • Anon is rewritten to be more cowardly, hesitant, socially awkward, but ultimately still going through a change of heart
  • very small changes to dialogue were made in later chapters to reflect this
  •  full thought process behind this rework can be found in the "game/other_mine" folder
    • PDF file "LSS - rethinking Anon and Fang" and JPEG file "LSS - anon fang reworks.jpg"
    • alongside the rest of the updated mind map!

• location rework for "10. Facing Naomi" 
  • new, more appropriate location that better ties the characters together
  • the quarrel remains the same, but the way it starts and ends are adjusted to fit the new setting
  •  dialogue with Spear's in "7. Monday after prom" was adjusted to set up for chapter 10
• reworked Nascar conversation in "3C. Meeting Naser"
  •  replaced nearly the entire dialogue borrowed from SG 
  • more insight into Trish and Fang's friendship in the early years, Naser's frustrations with family relations
• small rework of Samantha's conversation with the nurse  in "8. Family confronts Samantha"
  • basically Samantha isn't fed advice by an adult and has to come to a conclusion on her own

MINOR CHANGES

• added a new Anon/Lucy segment after meeting Ripley at "15. Anon's guitar pick quest" (credit to Grazdech for the idea)
  • Lucy shares her developed taste in music with a confused Anon
• added some new dialogue that highlights a plot point about Lucy in "15. Anon's guitar pick quest" and "16. Gifts"
  • long story short, Naser gets serious about Lucy
• resolved the plot hole about Anon not telling the Aarons about his fate in the army, he now gives an explanation for it
  • additionally I mention that his identity remains anonymous (pun not intended) in the case study

• dialogue rework of "14. Anon tries the guitar" to improve pacing and make it feel less like an early ending
  • at least one person noted how the game felt like it was about to end, when it, in fact, still had two more chapters to go
  • Anon's return to the Aaron home is now far better telegraphed
• leftover dialogue and artwork from old "Facing Naomi" has been sprinkled into "11. Last Day"
  • rest in peace the "A girl, a cig and an imageboard. That's life." line
• clarified at what point in time does the Ripley POV takes place
  • it's after prom, somewhere roughly before or right at midnight

TINY CHANGES

• plenty of small tweaks to sentences so they're easier to read out loud
• even more content in the gallery
• optimized the file size of a few large audio tracks, audio quality should remain unchanged
• tweaked artwork at Facing Naomi and Dinner Party to reflect outfit changes for respective characters
• replaced multiple instances of cringy flowery prose
• added backgrounds to a few otherwise empty scenes
• epilogue Anon now has books at home
• plentiful small tweaks
• switched names of anon postprom fear sprites
• removed a lineart mistake in "noprosthesis" sprites
• updated Mully sprites with a new accessory
• fixed a call for a missing "hairtop" file, should've been set to Null()
• updated credits with new contributors, added music and new credits song

I hope you enjoy! After this, I'm considering the project pretty much done. Not sure what else to really add except maybe an extra bonus story regarding Trish's story arc. We shall see!