The first "Chapter" of the game was made over 3 years ago, when Jamleng was just starting to experiment with Koikatsu Chara Studio. While the artwork and poses were "acceptable". Quite a few of them - buy our much more experienced view - no longer merit that classification. They had flaws which we wished to correct, so the game - when it is finished - looks consistent.
Specifically, the camera angles were either uninteresting or inconsistent, the lighting was dim or made everything look flat. The facial expressions, arm positions, and poses in general needed some tweaks. In addition, a lot of still images were replaced by animations, turning a still shot into a "living, breathing" character on screen. In a few instances, we needed to replace the background/room/environment they were in to match an updated one used in the later chapters.
The renders were not "BAD". They simply needed to be polished and improved.
You can see examples of these on a few posts at
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and this one from a little over a year ago... (public)
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From JAMLENG:
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When starting out one has to learn a lot, the more you do something, the "better" or "accustomed" one gets.
Thinking back to my earlier days when I started on the game, I recall how I spent about 3 to 6 months building the original demo. Nearing the end of my planned demo, I looked at what I had made (two hours of gameplay) and realized just how much it sucked visually. So I actually remade all of the images; we're talking a couple of thousand, including animations. The remade renders felt great to me at the time.
In hindsight? Compared to what we're doing today? They sucked yet again.
Over the course of the past year, quite a few scenes had already gotten an update but since the next version is going to be the final one, all of them have to be on the quality we want them to be.
All the remakes are a massive improvement to the earlier outdated scenes. Think setups, more interactive, better quality, more interesting looking naughty stuff and so forth. This is a remarkable visual change to the game over the first chapter.
Now, we can basically take these modifications as far as we want to, but - as of now - all the oldest outdated scenes have been redone. "