It's so clear that Zion is pretty much burned out or just has the intention to milk the Patreon money as much as he can. Even with the initial promise of giving periodical updates about the development, after finishing the part of writing the H-Scenes and story in late April, there was complete silence. Then late June comes and gives an update with a pretext (can be true or false) that his mother was sick and didn't get to work on the game for 10 days. I'm really sorry for him if this happened, since I was in the same boat with a mother who had medical issues, but people deserved the truth in the fact that the development was halted for two months. . Then in July he starts revealing the layout for the maps, which were, to be honest, like a slap in the face for me. Four maps with bland and generic tiles, which even a newbie dev could finish up in a couple of hours tops. Atop of it all, the maps are symmetrical in sides, WITH 0 DIFFERENCES WHATSOEVER, thing which a developer can confirm is the biggest sign of rushing and not giving a fuck, since you create one half of the map and just duplicate it on the other side. Basically he just started working on the game again at the beginning of July and is probably in a rush mode to finish up this chapter. I guarantee it won't come out any time sooner than September and it will be a piece bland rushed garbage, with some unbalanced fights and 3 hours tops of gameplay, with 0 soul or creativity.
Just to make a comparison with a truly dedicated developer, Torotoro started making Paradox Part 3 1 year before this guy and he is currently test phasing a game with over 120 hours worth of content. I was really rooting for this project because I saw ambition, but that quickly faded away when he released the Ch3 demo which was truly laughable.
Oh and as a reference to his empty promises, check out his reply from way back:
