I'm still praying every day hoping that Illgames have courage to release dark-themes game just like their old self LOL. The political climates have changed drastically starting beginning of this year with the latest news of Japan government will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel (CEDAW) that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule. This also means ending pressure from that organization to other matter like promoting "gender equality" and other DEI initiative.
These orgs have hounding Japan for years and it's good to see JP government actually have backbone to refuse their demand AND cutting their funding. If those orgs have their way and the JP government applying a western-style DEI law just like they wanted, not only we will have stricter porn law but most likely a complete ban of hentai works under the pretense of "discrimination against women".
We also see bolder approach to much thinner censor in tankoubon h-manga, with only thin layer of obscuration leaving >95% uncensored genital in many new release of h-manga. The only medium which still have heavy censorship is h-games and h-animes. But on the bright side we knew the creativity is still flowing unrestricted from gore to loli themes, from bright, lovey-dovey to dark, crime, depression even suicide themes. The only recent downside is since the re-introduction of mastercard/visa payment, some games have been hidden from DLsite to prevent western buyer to buy it just like the AI works.
Probably one of the reason for the name change is to clean their name from the past 'dark themes' & focus on 'innocent' type of games.
Yeah that's what we all are thought when they resurrect themselves. it's rather disappointing because we knew they had talents that can create dark games yet I think they wanted western money (via steam) and they think the only safe way to get is to create lovey dovey themed games only.
I still hope Illgames have backbones and release dark games, because they really have knacks on it. As much as I like other dark-themed 3D H-games, like miconisomi games or other smaller doujin circle works, they're pale in comparison to Illusion dark games of the past.