Finally got around to playing the redux version, some nice touches here and there, and a good revamp of the battle system, even though things are actually a little challenging at the beginning I can still beat the first Ember without the orgone rush through sheer persistence hahaha. Making people assign points right after the level ups was a good call, seems the complaints about the game too hard have diminished greatly after that, even though the enemy power seems to scale with our own. Btw, you might want to limit the training machine a bit more, I hit level 50 before finishing the current build and was curbstomping everything besides Ember and had a lot of leftover skill points to assign.
About the new art, I have mixed feelings. While it's easy to see that they ooze high quality, the faces really seem off like other people already mentioned, somewhat "animefied" if that makes any sense, and in some cases it's hard to recognize the characters if you don't know beforehand who it is, like in the Jazz masturbation scene. I have no idea if it's easy to "fix" or even if the artist desires to do so, but I think that if the faces could remain closer to the original it would be awesome, as the art itself is really good, the new backgrounds are pretty great too.
