I got the feeling (I did not check by starting a new game with the abandoned one - the real abandoned one, not the new one, the not-abandoned one) that the new version lays out more future paths and focuses in a funny way on the anal theme. Yes, FUNNY. I really think the DEV found a fun way to introduce anal, unique. Let's support his new approach!
Other than DrunkNescafe, who also did a basically great game (with many very annoying stuff in it, collect here, collect there...), this one worked and works, it gives you plenty of content and NO POINTLESS RUNNING AROUND AND SEARCHING FOR STUFF TO DO. You can't praise this high enough! The main problem of those games here is the pointless and fun free running around and doing stupid tasks to kill time (buy this that, bring letters or stuff to this or that person, find the animal, pat the animal, feed the animal, kill the animal, grill the animal, eat the animal, ...). So I think xyou should not compare this game here with "New paths". The bitter thing about DrunkNescafe is that his game was very far developed with many great ideas and plot lines - and than he dropped it and started again. And if I remember correctly, after a long wait the new version had a bug at its very beginning. DrunkNescafe was great in updating bugfixes quite fast, but on the other hand the game was always very buggy. So it is a totally different story, Project Sage is alive whereas "New paths" will take a long time to come out if ever.