I'm sorry guys but I'll go in the opposite direction.
If anyone wants to remake, continue, make a parody, fan game, whatever, just go for it. Just be sure you will put yourself in hard position where people will have high expectations about your game. It's that simple.
It has been YEARS since the last update about VWA and everyone comes back here in hopes of what? Every time someone tries to create something new a few people come to say "no, you shouldn't". Why these people say that? Well, there's this and that but the main argument usually is "you should not steal others work". Come on guys, really? Here... In this site? Don't feel attacked OK? I'm contesting your argument and not you as a person. Unless you paid for everything you downloaded here and contributed to VWA's Patreon, your argument is worthless or worse a lie, so it's not really convincing.
Now let me bring a new argument to the table. A lot of people here knows the other DRG game
Valentina's Story. Does everybody know it has a continuation (
Valentina's Story HS Edition), a remake (
Valentina Summer) and a fan inspired game (
Lolita Gone Wild)? It's sad nobody even tried to do anything in Astrid universe because of negative comments here.
There's another reason there are many other versions of Valentina. DynamiteRed made 3 posts explaining why he was stopping Valentina's development, he stopped because of lack of time, lack of desire and he learned a lot of RPGM coding, so he wanted to create something from the beginning. But, he also said something important, he didn't mind someone continuing the project he abandoned and in his own words: "
If some crazy person feels like extending the existing content and wanted to share it online, feel free. Just give me credit as the original author. But I won't be involved in any way. Oh, and you can't charge money for it."
Unfortunately his posts are gone, but here's the source from original Valentina's Story thread:
Now that's a real argument, isn't it? With his statement we can assume that yes, you CAN continue his abandoned works, there's 99% of chance he won't mind, just respect his wishes, give credit and don't charge any money. If you make a parody instead, it's your own creation.
"Well, but I don't like these continuations". You know the answer, don't you? Just. Don't. Play. It.