Oh yeah, CoC1 was great back in the day. I still remember the dominant centaur archer and the cute orc from the swamp. That's exactly what I was talking about, variety. CoC1 offered enough for me to go through all of it and be engaged all the way.
I don't really know what's happening with CoC2. I suspect some writers left or something. Because Brint's content was HOT at the beginning but then suddenly nothing, other than his counterpart Brienne.
I feel Lustful Desires, at least at the beginning part, took great inspirations from CoC1. LD still has some good scenes with werewolf TF for key characters, and some hot corruption scenes. Hope you'll like it!