From a cursory look, the original game hasn't been updated in 3 months and the dev stop communicating since september 8th which is not looking good since he was posting messages on patreon every week almost.
My worry for this "project" is whether or not he will be able to make new images and scenes or if he will just reuse all the old assets and stop when he runs out?
I am a fan of the original but if it's dead, a remake is better than nothing.
FYI, the game is using the SAME save location as the original... please change that