peace + love on catgirl earth

given that Ch5 just gave us the incredibly powerful Flower Items (two of which nullify / lower the TP cost of pacifying enemies) i imagine that from Ch6 onward, there will be a greater focus on difficult battles. it'd only be fitting now that things are getting serious. this might explain it being "easier to make", the gameplay becoming more straightforward from here.

we've had our last fun adventure. no more gimmicks, no more minigames. the sun has gone down completely. the dark clouds that were previously on the horizon are now over our heads.

coldwater fell from the top of the sky.

oh there are definitely a lot of reasons it could be easier to make. it mostly just feels like having simplistic visuals, heavy asset re-use, and/or being more "barren" in general are easy assumptions for things that would make the chapter easier to make, that also feel like they may conflict with a holiday house dark world/lend themself better to something like a hospital dark world. whatever we're getting with ch6 will definitely not be on the level of ch5's platforming mechanic and fully animated cutscene and 200 flowery voicelines, so it will almost certainly be easier to make than all of that lol