Honestly, it's like the dev read a Raymond Chandler novel, got deployed overseas to Japan, developed a drinking problem, and forgot how to write correctly in English. It would explain everything... Or, you know, someone left the project. The MC instantly transforms from a lovable and relatable goof who happens to be a recently injured police officer--to a hard-boiled, hard-drinking, slang-using, sarcasm-wielding Son of a Rick Flair. Oh, and we're suddenly in Japan. Oh, and the pacing goes out the window. Oh, and we'll leave behind all the carefully introduced characters and now spend an hour introducing two unlikeable and poorly designed literal prostitutes. These aren't whores with a heart of gold. Nope, they're more of the push-my-daughter's-head-down-on-a-strange-man's-penis type whores. Sorry... WHAT!?
There is absolutely no way these are the same people working on this project, LOL. We had a few months' break, fell far off the initially reported timeline, and now we have this dumpster-fire. It is absolutely, glaringly obvious that someone who had been working on the project or helping somehow has left. There is no way this is the same group of people. Something has changed.
TO THE DEV: If your writer/editor/translator/collaborator has left the project and won't come back, that's a shame. For a % of the proceeds, I could probably be convinced to help rewrite the entire script for this last update into something that makes sense and matches the tone and pace of the beginning. You wouldn't have to change a single render, just change the order of the images and the words beneath them.
And if you want to move the story into a more hard-boiled direction, we can do that gradually in a way that makes sense. This project had so much potential. We can draw up a contract on Upwork or something. Ball's in your court dev.