This isn't a dig at the dev so much as a blunt question: why do so many solo/small dev teams feel the need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to hentai games? Honestly, the combat revamp is both unappealing and...worse than what was there before? I know stationary images aren't for everyone, but the detail on the combat animations was good enough to offset the lack of animation...all this effort just to have a 2 second looping animation on combat sprites but lose the actual art?
It really just blows my mind when I think back on how frequently this happens with h-game devs, even more so when you consider reworks/random rebuilds are almost universally disliked (in general, I know there will always be diehard fans), massively slow down development, and worst of all
frequently cause all of the game's code to break. Is it just a universal law that h-devs have to do at least 1 "massive overhaul" or "massive rework" during their development that completely fucks everything in exchange for almost nothing?
Edit: there is also a special place in hell for devs who do combat reworks, then decide to make the actual h-attacks,
the entire reason for the rework,
miss inordinately frequently. Literally self-sabotaging on top of self-sabotaging. Rant over