Yeah, it will probably be a slight nerf for Reshape for pure melee... though, even at minimum Magic, it will still be 75% as much of a heal as before, and still removes all status conditions. It will be as good or even better for hybrids who may have above average Magic.
Have you found out the rather poorly documented "force move" mechanic, btw? If you hold... it's either Shift or Control, I can't remember which... while moving, it forces your demons to move with you. This can be useful for positioning (and for doing so without your demons eating a valuable capture target), but be aware it FORCES your demons to move with you: they will do absolutely nothing else, no matter what the situation, including emergency heals. I admit it's not well called out though, mostly because I haven't figured out how or when to do so; for now it's only mentioned in the controls section of the manual.
Corpse encounters got nerfed a little in the next build: they should still be hard, but they were a little toooo hard in the current build.
I'll recheck the description on Glitch.
Paracelus is a 100% spawn for Anomaly:3, yep. He's the "boss" of the place, so to speak.
Blood and Flesh Rot are pretty amazing. I need to get around to adding the missing ones Nerve (-EVD), Eye (-ACC), and Brain (-SPD) some day.
The Codex will not automatically carry over, but you can manage the trick by copying the appropriate file from your current game's Records folder into the new version's (which, notably, will be in a completely different location since I had to change where I was storing them for Mac/Linux compatibility reasons: some permissions settings didn't appreciate me putting them in Demon's own install folder, apparently.) Apologies for the mild trouble, but I'm pretty adamant about not officially supporting save file compatibility between versions yet because it's kind of a pain and I don't want to divert time to it I could use for moving forward on new stuff. Once we're out of alpha, I'll have to take it more seriously.
Thanks again for the reports, I always enjoy reading these. Good luck with post-Anomaly.