2025.8.5 Recent Updates Changelog and Future Plans

2025.8.2

1. Continued optimizing the game, reduced input lag, reduced VRAM and RAM usage

2. Fixed Sword Danmaku Art being cheesable

3. Fixed the Stage 2 boss having incorrect bullet-firing sounds, and bullet prediction lines being wrong in Stage 1. Also fixed prediction lines sometimes showing up even without Hakurei Mind's Eye of Danmaku equipped

4. Fixed "Living God" being shown as "Youkai Sage" when leveling up

5. Fixed being able to upgrade an item twice by pressing confirm rapidly

6. Fixed some issues with leveling up to a youkai/Living God: Being able to continue, retry, and unlocking items under practice mode

7. Fixed the ninth pair of shoes being repeated

8. Fixed being unable to take off your hat, socks, and accessories

9. Fixed a collision-related replay desync in Stage 3

10. The stage 2 boss' hidden drops are automatically collected to avoid them being lost by accident

11. Display important parts of boss' hitboxes

12. Fixed a crash related to passive clothing abilities

13. Fixed some replays being unplayable

14. Show the version number on screen

15. Adjustments to the Merit Value log to prevent text overflow

16. Fixed some button settings not taking effect

17. Continue replacing assets from the original games

2025.8.3

1. Make it harder to dodge Laser Danmaku Art on the inside

2. Fixed getting hit in the tutorial, restarting, and capturing the first spell resulting in a failed capture being displayed

3. Fixed pre-spawn bullets rendering with the wrong orientation

4. Fixed some stage 3 boss spells having no damage resistance and thus being trivially bypassable

5. Fixed a crash in the settings menu

6. Fixed text overflow in some dialogue boxes

7. When holding Z to skip dialogue, also skip dialogue choices. This will not deduct Merit Value.

2025.8.5

1. Reduce the health of some spell cards so that they're capturable even without understanding the system

2. Make scatter-aimed bullets in stage 1 and stage 1 boss static. Refinements to the bullet shapes and fix some sprite issues

3. Updated the colors of some of the stage 3 boss' bullets. Some bullets have been changed to the opposite color of your favorite color for better visual distinction

4. Remember the last selected difficulty and shot

5. Add English translations. Some text may still overflow their boxes, this will be corrected in a later update.

6. Prompt the player to pick vocal or Touhou-style music on first start

7. FixedOther"Press C to edit character" no longer shows on Reimu and Marisa, fixed the Medium Orb Shooter's firing angles, fixed being able to continue in spell practice, fixed some typos in image resources

Future Plans

1. Refine the settings UI

Steam post image2. Continue optimizing the game

1. Add more clothing and items

2. Complete English translation

On behalf of the team, I sincerely thank our dear players for their valuable feedback.

We hope to hear more of your opinions and suggestions.

You can reach us via the following channels.

1. QQ group: 816053495

2. Comment on the Steam store page of the demo

3. Comment on the following video, or message the video uploader on Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sp83zwEZG

4. Email 1149775512@qq.com

5. [TL note] You may also ping williewillus on YouTube or Discord and he will forward your feedback to the appropriate channels.

Thank you for your support of Categorical Imperative Valid?!

Games are inextricably tied to the feedback of the players. Once again, we thank the players who have downloaded the demo of Categorical Imperative Valid? and given their feedback.

Sakurai Rin (樱景琳)