Captain is the key to all this, he's a funnier character than FOW's ever had.
We must be talking about two very different Studio FOWs if you can even make a joke about comedy in Studio FOW's game. They did an interview once, I believe it was with lewd gamers, and like one of the first questions is why their videos were so dark and always involved blackmail, rape, demons capturing girls, etc.
Anyone who's been a fan of their work should be genuinely confused that they decided to go with a light and fluffy deadpool knockoff with all the girls being pansexual sluts that are all too happy to be boned by anything sapient or otherwise at any and all times.
I was actually kind of expecting a darker Mass Effect kind of VN not... whatever the heck this is supposed to be. I agree with Risquerverie though, the captain makes me want to just quick close the game every time he opens his nonexistent mouth.
Really regret backing this game and I genuinely hope they go back to making videos after this.
Might just be personal taste but only a couple of the girls are hot in this game? They call Lily a "MILF" and then give her a completely generic body type. Sova is fucking unbearable. Killi really feels like the hottest one by a wide margin.
All the Xeno-fucking in the gallery is alright though, that gets a pass
You're not alone, this was heavily discussed on the Steam forums and kickstarter. The gals seemingly use similar body models that are just slightly modified, and they all have a very generic look to them other than like you said very light modifications, i.e. blue skin, horns, elf ears, etc. I mean DEMI barely hits the robot look, pending a few changes you could have easily just assumed she was a regular human wearing a suit.
They also take the laziest routes with the character personalities and play them straight without variance, which makes them pretty boring. It's all like, mega-safe and wide appeal, which is weird considering the monsters you can bone and Studio FOW's previous work.
Dunno, I never would have guessed this was a Studio FOW project by playing the game. I really have absolutely no idea why they went in this direction with so many things. Heck, probably would have been better for them to just make up a straight VN with normal, in-story sex scenes and just forgo the jank minigames and weird CG unlocker system they got going on.