See it like this others never make it to even have any Save system ever in this state complexity range
Others being worse doesnt mean illusion gets "fre ride tickets"
All that Koikatsu technically needs to save is:
- The card data
- the locations of characters
- the stats of characters
- Bought/picked up items (Player inventory)
- minor stuff
Its not like Illusions games are complex in terms of gameplay, and for animation speeds to change... one has to actively change the animation speed somewhere in the code, have a function for it, which shouldnt be tied to the savegames.
Here is my take on this: The animations being weird is part of illusions "we dont want this to be played outside of japan" protection stuff, which also caused the other issue with the locale. But it seems something has gone wrong this time, since simply having locale as JP doesnt work for everyone.
Illusion in general is "weird" in how they make their games, but they are the best we have... for now... we will see what "project railgun" from ScrewThisNoise will be - given that he announced it with "dispelling illusions", maybe we finally get a proper game, but I have no Idea what he is up to.
No, not that I am aware of.
Not played a lot of it, since I've been busy figuring out any and all mess in here, but seems like a natural extension on the original game.
I really dont want to trade places with you, but thanks for the effort... making Illusions games better. (and more accessible to everyone, installing mods was a pain back in Hongfire days.)