Funny thing happened.
So, after trying to apply OP's skin texture caused a mess of weird issues the first time, I decided to do a clean install and figured out a cleaner way of merging the folders. Then everything looked hideously desaturated and gray. I thought that might be OP's skin texture mod doing that, but I backed up the game before applying the texture this time, and this screen-door-gray look is on both working versions. Check this out:
See, the character portrait was taken with that composite download I did the first time, and by comparison you can clearly see how flat and lifeless the current dynamically-rendered graphics are because it doesn't effect the UI. Here's what it's supposed to look like:
Apparently this is because I was initially trying to run the game with
HoneySelectLauncher.exe from the folder
English Launcher. Going back to the first layer
Honey Select folder, I took
HoneySelect_32.exe and dragged and dropped it onto
IPA.exe to create the Shortcut
HoneySelect_32 (Patch & Launch) and that runs the game without the screen door effect, even though before the clean install the only difference was that the .exe under
English Launcher gave you a Launcher window.
So I don't know what the hell is going on, but that's my story of a graphical bug and how some guesswork and jiggery-pokery managed to fix it. Kind of. Computers can be like black magic sometimes.