I mean, I've been playing lately 2 games that have recently had massive changes on them (funnily both were porn ones)...its not dead actually.... but with current progress and changes... this game have a high chance to fail
Saria is a game that, while the dev seems to have changed direction, and I can get why others feel annoyed by it, it still holds it's weight pretty well, the idea of this direction is something I respect from the dev, and doesn't annoy me after playing it, probably a lot of the content made before will have to be re put into the game, and that will take some more time (probably up to 3 - 4 more months, to write everything and come up with slight bits of more content) at the end of the day it'll depend on how Velminth ends up managing it...
I personally like it since the game art is very good, and possesed a very large amount of fetishes that it could go towards, and it won't be now a game that when you see it you consider it "oh a similar game to Karryn's Prison"...