Alright, so the mermaid's basic battle set is 100% complete. The concept I'm working on is a new form of your partner being captured. As you can see above, Rex's partner in chapter 2 has been captured by the mermaid, and starts off getting getting hugged/cuddled while she tries to pry herself free! Next she's inserted into the mermaid's "lower mouth," and soon after, "swallowed." By trying it this way, I hope to be able to having a more interesting struggling/capturing phase. Something I might also add to the mix is a cut in of the player struggling within in front of the enemy. This requires an entire new sheet with new dimensions, however. That's unfortunate, because it would really only require 3 new sprites, but I can't think of a way to call on this new stage without a new heavily altered sheet. I'll have to think on it for now. I will add that the capturing sheet for the mermaid is yet incomplete. The mermaid can devour her pray with her mouth as well, in a closer to same-size type vore! So there's a mouth struggle coming soon, and a big wriggling belly as well! In this fight, you just don't know exactly how your ally is getting devoured until the AI decides!
Chapter two's WIP title is "The Dragon and The Witch." Rex's new partner is named Viri, and she's a dragon...well...so she says. Or will be one one day? Rex thinks she's full of it...
Molly's new "partner" will be The Witch, Rapture. No spoilers on that just yet...