It has been a long time since I last looked at this project and I gotta say, when generative AI art got big in the last couple of years I thought about this game a lot. I don't actually know when the last time I played this was, but it had to have been well before 2019.
This game was very clearly photobashing a bunch of InCase art along with whatever other assets it could get its hands on (the MC's mom was never consistent in styling back then swapping between an InCase design and some more cutesy anime mom like Ed's mom in FMA).
I'm not very far into the game at the moment, but seeing all the characters swaying around, a bunch of generic anime background characters, that telltale generic rendering that generative AI likes so much, it's all weirdly jarring. I know this is what I should have expected, but god did the more blatant art theft of yore have more character to it. At least the people photobashing InCase's art back then put a little more care into getting their ideas across
Were I to expend any more effort, I'd probably start looking at the dialogue and writing of the older games and compare them to what we have now. I mean, if you're gonna use AI Art, let's just prompt out a script too.
The future sucks.