We can only hope that he might come back to this game one day. My opinion of him might have hit rock bottom but I can't deny that the art style was gorgeous and the story was kind of interesting. Unfortunately, from what I gathered from his posts and when I was briefly a part of his discord, the guy seems to be one of those douches who can't handle criticism and outright ignores anything negative but if people were praising him? Oh boy, did he respond fast to that.
His last release (April 2022 lol) also had quite a rocky launch.
He kept saying next week and then failed for months. He mostly blamed something related to how he was making the pics and said he will go back to the old ways. He also actually seemed willing to take criticism and advice.
He added the weekly report with percentage bars, said he will do planning and storyboarding more carefully and be more communicative.
Problem is, as things progressed he seemed to have the same issues he had at the end of 2021-April 2022.
He hit 100% on progress, but kept going, while people were telling him no to delay any longer.
Then he realized the new scenes didn't fit in well with the rest of the stuff, which means bad planning again, so he had to do even more scenes to bridge them together.
Since he was getting pushback he started communicating less on discord.
He also made several post about release for sure "next weekend" and then blew past those self-imposed deadlines.
Pretty much just the whole 0.4 release all over again, but on a bigger scale. All this while having quit his day job to focus on his game.
The tipping point for me was when he started showing stuff from his new game, while his current release was on 100%+ for some time, but he kept adding stuff to it. I understand being an artist and wanting to try no stuff, or the pressure getting to you, but still..
So I don't think it's a criticism thing. He is just one of those people that should never be his own boss and seems unable to learns from mistakes. He literally failed the exact same way he failed for the April 2022 release with the extra of spending time on side stuff. Mindboggling. Talk about doing a reputation ruin speed-run.
On the other hand he is indeed 100% trash for not having the courtesy to pause his patreon when he went 0 communication. And it wasn't for a few days or weeks, it's been a quarter of a year.
