Wdym identical CG's? Like for the morning ritual? Or you mean same positions. Because if it is the latter, ASWS has plenty of repeats as well.
A lot of PQ size, comes from the fact that Tinkerer integrates the background in every CG while Chyos separates the background and the foreground into multiple layers. For example:
In PQ this is one big png:
While in ASWS it is 2 smaller png's(cum, animation)+1 bigger png(reused background):
I do think PQ has better CG overall: more detailed, better textures, more fluid. But I gues that is subjective. I think both games are great, and both approaches are good. I just don't want the same thing that happened to A Goblin's Tale, to happen to either.
Has Chyos ever mentionned the engine limitations? Maybe he found a solution for it, which is why he is not bothered.
If you go to the temple alter, no matter which of the four you pick, you are going to get the same background and same scene with each of the four models.
Same thing with Lucien's / Liandra's basement.
Same thing with Freyja's Feast in the giant camp.
At least with the temple there is some variety in the models, but with Lucien and Liandra, no difference body wise, slight change in faces, giants are also nearly identical.
Exact same location of models body, exact same loop of position order. ASWS doesn't have that.
At 10 pm in Emily's house, you get a drastically different scene, and position changes with each of the three choices. Same with Claire / Kate / Ophelia.
Same with at the fire in Rumah, Ayita, Raaisha, Hiba, Tia, Nyra, and Katherin each have different scenes. None have similarities let alone having 100% identical choreography.
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No, Chyos hasn't ever mentioned engine limitations. It's never a concern as he enters a new item into the content poll like he did a month or so ago with entering Frisha's update. Currently there are 9 known updates planned for ASWS. PQ reportedly can only have two more before the engine is capped.
Background integration may be part of it, but all four in the temple alter share the exact same background. ED shares a background with the bat breeder, giants share background at the feast and hunting lodge, vampires share cemetery scenes, goblins share backgrounds, Liandra's basement, etc.
So I am not sure the background alone explains it all, because like at the temple alter, you have like three separate backgrounds shared between four LI's. Making 4 total backgrounds.
But you also have like three or more backgrounds in each of Emily's, Frisha's and Mira's bedrooms. 12 total backgrounds.