Patch notes: the Path, rebuilt

A revised curriculum! Notarized, laminated, and only slightly longer than the old one. Considerably longer. Fifty-six boards, if anyone’s counting, and I am, professionally.

• Choose your path. Declare your element and clear its ten levels, then sit that teacher’s exam. Pass, and you choose which element to take on next. Your teacher will have a thought about each one. Listen to them. Mostly.
• All four, then further. Ten levels and an exam for each element, then ten advanced levels, my own final exam, and whatever is chewing on the wall these days.
• Gentle first, firm later. Your first exam is the gentlest, whichever teacher it is. Each one after asks a little more. No teacher is any harder than before. I checked. Legal checked. Legal is also me.
• Reactions, one at a time. Something new happens as you beat the elements, and it grows with every exam you pass. What and how, I’ll let you discover. The Path is now the only way in; reading the book no longer unlocks them.
• Everyone starts fresh. The Path is new, so everyone begins it again from the Declaration. Your high scores, your multiplayer and everything else are exactly where you left them.
• High scores show what was in play. Small icons beside a score show which reactions that round had. Endless and Time Attack will also nudge you toward the Path, if there’s more waiting for you there.

Tectonic: Begin.

He means “welcome back.” I’ve had it translated. Twice.