The verified update
Yes. Official text says animal abilities can help the player leap across terrain, break through obstacles, and discover treasures.
This briefing isolates one part of the public record so that a player can act on the confirmed detail without mistaking a broad trailer, preorder listing, or product page for a complete specification.
What the source establishes
- Movement assistance is explicitly named.
- Obstacle breaking is explicitly named.
- Treasure discovery is also part of the animal-companion feature.
Why it matters now
Avoid assigning abilities to specific animals until screenshots, menus, or reproducible gameplay prove the pairing.
For editorial tracking, this topic should be reviewed again when Natsume publishes another game-specific release, when a verified platform store exposes new metadata, or when launch-day testing can answer the remaining operational question.
What this update does not establish
The roles are confirmed collectively; the publisher has not mapped every action to a named species.
No unannounced feature, value, route, schedule, performance target, item table, or story outcome has been inferred. The distinction is important because the game is still unreleased.
Primary evidence
Natsume title announcement · source date 2026-03-11; independently reviewed 2026-07-29.