Long time no see! This update took several times longer to publish than I would have liked, but it's out now nonetheless. Listed below are the changes for this version:

• Added Arcade Modifiers. These are optional settings that can be enabled to make Arcade Mode more difficult, if you're looking to aspire to some greater challenges. Each modifier is independent of one another, so you can choose to enable/disable any combination of them. If you can beat an Arcade ladder on Hard with all modifiers enabled, you are a true of God of Warfare and I salute you. Frankly, this may be an impossible challenge but maybe I'll be proven wrong someday.
• The "cinematic" black bars during the KO flash are now smaller, so less of the screen is obscured.
• Fixed an oversight that caused the fire effect of Shrapnel to persist on screen if the game returned to the main menu while it was present.

And that about does it. Like I said it definitely took longer than anticipated, mostly due to being discouraged by an insufferable bug in my code that I couldn't figure out how to fix. Hopefully future updates will not suffer the same fate. Until next time, thanks for reading and have a nice day.