I enjoyed the first game greatly, and when I saw the name of this game, I was quite excited but... those images are freaking me out man. I don't usually play first releases anymore, and this game won't be an exception, so I'm not going to post this as a review, though in case you (The dev) would like the perspective of someone just passing over, I will post a comment.
First off, the MC looks pretty bad, quite a downgrade. I understand that this is meant to be a different person, not a rewrite of the first game, but man this dude looks totally emaciated and even a bit feminine, especially in the third image (as of writing this post, august 7th 2025) he looks thin, gaunt, weak and just totally unappealing. I understand that it is a bit difficult to make an appealing male character in the HS style of illusion games, but quite honestly the protagonist of the first game looked fine, you could have taken him and edited him a bit to make him look different enough (If this is from the same illusion game) to be seen as a new person.
Second, the women. Like the first point, most of them look wholly unappealing to me, milfs are fine, facial aging is fine, but a lot of the girls in the images look too old, at least 3 of them look like grannies in the face, it just doesn't appeal to me in a porn game. In addition, one of the girls seems to be pregnant already, I'll go out on a limb and say that the MC caused that for the sake of the discussion. Its too far along for us to have gotten a good chunk of time with her to have seen her relationship with the MC develop, just from the images, unless this first episode is like an hour long, it feels like it might be moving too fast with the players just not having enough skin in the game to truly care for the characters like the first game (which went quick, don't get me wrong, but we did get enough time with each girl (mostly) before impregnation for the player to know them enough to feel good about it.
Third, the MC seems to be a lot more submissive from the images shown. Now, yes, there was femdom in the first game, IF you went down that route with one of the girls, but at the same time, the MC also kicked the ass of multiple gang members and blackmailed said girl for sex if you did not go down the femdom route. The images shown of the game are mostly (sex scenes) femdom looking, with the MC in submissive positions or looking like he just isn't in control. He looks miserable and flustered, and I wonder if this game has a non femdom path, because from the images (of sex) shown, it seems like the MC being submissive is the main focus which I fear might isolate half of the existing audience from the first game.
In all, If I had no prior knowledge of the first game in this series, and what an absolute masterpiece it was, I would have easily passed over this game without even clicking on it to read the thread from looking at the previews. Ignoring personal opinions such as my stance on femdom, the character designs are a great disappointment, and are a massive downside, but worst of all the description (Remember, I am talking as if I had never known the first game) is so vague and targeted towards an existing audience that there is no way I would have been hooked and downloaded the game from that alone.
Knowing what I know about the first game, however, I will put the thread on watch and check back every few updates because I see a good chance it turns around for the better, this is the perfect time to do so, as not much has been created for the game yet. I wish you luck, dev, you've done it before, which is the hardest part, so I know you are capable of doing it again.