Forgive my wall of text. I have yet to finish my coffee so i put in in a spoiler.Adding onto this, after like 5 minutes of research, apparently the reason the original author departed was because of a falling out with the community at large. Generally speaking, he wasnt a fan of the Project Moon/Touhou/Black Souls trashy gatekeeping culture and in many ways he is just right about that. The Western/European Black Souls community based on YouTube and Discord is notoriously insufferable so something like this was to be expected out of a game which shared its fanbase.
If anyone wishes to support the original TKAF author their twitter is still up, but they have made it clear that they didnt wish to work on anymore NSFW projects to deter attracting the same psuedo-fantasy writer crowd.
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This is a common and reoccuring trope for the fanbase of these games outside of F95 and it isn't really surprising if you think about it. A lot of people online really made being a fan of Black Souls their entire identity and when you overshare in a community like this people will get hurt.
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Oh i overlooked your initial post.Need to add that his takes were the main reason of PseudoHeaven losing trust to dev team and returning to the server to ban them out of using the original designs.
Well while i cant really comment on anything else. Overall i think its a shame how the original dream of TKAF bursted like a bubble. Sucks even more that seemingly one indiviual caused or provoked the downfall of a interesting indie project.
The only comment i want to make is that i wish you and the new devs the best on your endeavor to create a spiritual successor!
And considering the whole situation......maybe its best to simply move on & try to create the game based on your original idears. I seen attempts to reanimate dead projects here and there. The main reason those fell apart of flat was because the original vision wasnt there anymore. Which then resulted in a mixed bag of unfinished themes, in the form of a fragmented story or weird gameplay decisions. Regardless whatever you guys want to create going foward i hope it works out!