This reminds me of when the Twisted World dev completely randomly decided he was going to redesign all his characters and reboot/remake the game, ruining the game's style and vibe in the process, the excuse was that everything was now more high-quality, in the end, he ended up stagnating the project, add to that the fact that the Dev basically insulted his fans when they complained, lol.
The previous example may be exaggerated since nothing has happened here yet, but the changes in the uploaded demo were quite radical, you're not going to instantly make everyone like redesigned characters that look nothing like the old ones, even if they look a little better visually, the problem is that people who get hooked on these games do so because the characters end up growing on them, even if some parts of the game look a bit crude, people accept that and end up seeing it as part of the characters, you're only going to earn rejection from a portion of the fans if you change so many things.
The mistake of the Twisted World Dev was that instead of "improving" his old characters, he decided to change them completely, removing all their previous charisma, in addition to adding a bunch of weird fetishes that nobody asked for (probably some whale did), in any case, I don't understand why these Devs don't finish their games and then release sequels taking advantage of the solid base they got with the first game, in the sequel they can make all the changes they want lol.
