I've played this game back when it was still pokemon based.
Been quite a while since then, is the new game with enough content now to be worth playing?
Is it anywhere close to finished? (in which case I'll just wait a bit more to play the finished game)
I've played both versions, and I'd say that the current version definitely has enough content to be worth playing.
The current version has more content, and it feels more polished than the last pokémon-based version. As of v0.18, all characters except Faye and the shopkeep/evil witch Vanilla have at least one sexscene.
OTOH the game isn't anywhere near being finished yet.
The good news is that the current version of the game is *much* more extensive than that the pokémon version was. The current version already has more than twice as many rooms. The old version has 16, while v0.18 has about 40.
The new content is also a lot more fleshed out. The devs clearly want to give us content instead of empty maps.
...but the bad news is that you can't progress very far into the main storyline yet. In both the old pokémon version and in the latest version, the game is about saving four major cosplayer characters. In the old pokémon version, you could find all four of them in the first ten rooms - but in v0.18, even exploring all forty-ish rooms will just get you Phoebe, the
pikachu electric rat cosplayer. The other three girls haven't been added yet.
In all versions, the convention centre is also stated to have multiple areas. Like a forest area, a beach area, etcetera. These areas were implemented in the pokémon version. But back then, each area is like one room. In the new version, only the forest area has been implemented. But that forest area alone is already like twenty rooms, sub-areas like the venue not included.
So, in short? The game unfinished, but the game already has so much polished content that that's not really an issue.
...and don't bother waiting until the game has been completed, because at this rate that won't be before 2030. What the devs have been planning is clearly a lot more ambitious than what they were envisioning back in 2017.