You could be right, about the story. But you are right about the graphics. I have to say, I hated the LE story, because of the ugly woman, the ones you see back in the video's you can buy in TGO.
Having said that game play improved a little, a few things that were irritating in TON, were fixed in the TGO.
What RPMaker goes, is there anything better? Ren'py or so is nice, but not for walking around games, at least I haven't seen any. It's only used succesfully for VN type games. Then you have those dotnet games too, they all have a totally different interface, I rather got used to RPMaker games.