I've finished porting this mod over to The Shell Part 2 (2024/05/19).

The Shell Part 2 Improved Readability Mod

I've finished porting this mod over to The Shell Part 3 (2025/01/26).

The Shell Part 3 Improved Readability Mod

This mod applies to all languages, English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. Here's a list of what the mod does in detail:

• Swaps out the thin, serifed fonts with thicker, non-serifed fonts.
  
• Increases the size of the backlog from 3 blocks of text on screen to 5 blocks of text on screen.
  
• Adds a thematically appropriate scrollbar to the backlog to make looking through the backlog easier.
  
• Fixes a bug with the textbox and textbox icons that caused flashing when playing in fullscreen.
  
• Swaps out the dialogue's “” quotes for regular "" quotes, fixing spacing issues.
  
• Rebinds "Return to Title" to Esc instead of F12, since Steam screenshots are already on F12.

• Moved text in textbox around to account for Natsume's massive head.
  
• Moved portraits down and to the left a little to better match the transparency fade to the edge of the screen.
  
• Swapped out the dialogue's ‘’ quotes for regular '' quotes, fixing spacing issues.
  
• Adjusted position of text-is-finished sparkle animation in both NVL and ADV scenes.
  
• Changed the "Natsuckme" translation to "Natsume darlin'" since that feels like a more appropriate translation of Natsume-chan in this scene.

• Edited how choices text is displayed so that italics look correct.

• The new update on Steam broke the mod and this fixes that issue.

GitHub Download Link[github.com]

1. Unzip the patch and open the extracted folder.
   
2. Open the game's base directory from Steam by clicking the Gear Icon -> Manage -> Browse local files from the game's page in your library.
   
3. Drag and drop the TheShell.pfs.070 file into the game's base directory.
   
4. Launch the game and enjoy!

Whenever the mod is updated, please just redownload and overwrite the existing mod file with the updated mod file.

If you notice any issues, especially in either Chinese language, since I can't test them as thoroughly, please let me know and I will fix them. Also, there are still things in the game that I would like to fix/add. No promises, but I may update this mod in the future with more fixes and features.

Laureeeeeeeeeeeeeeen for all the image editing and for putting up with me asking for her to redo the egg slider icon again and again.