I didn't even know there were different generation models, thanks for explaining. I looked at your screenshots and noticed that the original screenshot slightly affects mood because darkness affects perception. I'm not strong enough to explain the cause and effect relationship from a biological, neurobiological or psychological point of view, but I feel that I don't like it on a deep level. Perhaps it's not just my individual perception.
It's good that the game author is aware of this and is going to address it. I think it's possible to run all images through Lightroom or do it with neural network, if you screw in a script for automatic color correction of a group of images.
Yes, you are right, my screenshots were from the game "Big Brother: Ren'Py - Remake Story".
You mentioned "Big Brother: Another Story v0.09.2.03" and I'm confused.... No, I haven't played it yet, but what version is that (I couldn't find a description)?
he is using sprites, and terribly rendered ones at that, to make these comped images, that is why they all look way off, something I said when first test version was released
I can't even speculate why they look so terrible, maybe because he is using HDRIs to light them not bothering to add necessary extra lighting, so it all looks like crap, also probably doesn't know how to color match images, so can't improve the sprites without them jumping out of the comp picture, and all this after switching over from G3 to G8 to "make things better" and advertising "greatly improved image quality", what a load of bollocks... probably the same story with code, hence the 0.2 saves were not compatible with this last 0.3 release
and that blurry max sprite at the dinner table is comically bad, would take someone maybe 15-20 minutes to fix, but no, too busy with something else...
so, basically, all this rework has been for nothing, couple dream sequences that 100% trivial to implement in the old code
but fear not, all this will be fixed in 2025 "BB: Same old story, with all new images again and improved code!" remake!
edit: just looked at the unzipped images, yeah, 1,3M webp blurry backgrounds in 2k size that should have been 1/10 of that size, what a great effort to control the game size...