Thanks for this honest feedback, it is a wake up call.
We are a smaller team than when we started, and the push for AI was to be able to continue with the project having lost really talented artists. The results don’t compare and the overall quality has suffered.
Our next step has to be a serious look at how to go back to real artwork given important constraints of time and resources.
Having no longer access to more artwork from the same source would be a reason to change the art. I was just lamenting because it read like you did it for other reasons.
I look at lots of nsfw games and comments and the impression I got was, that AI is not really popular. It is tolerated, not something to brag about. Pixel art would be a counterexample. People highlight it and advertise with it.
And the timing was just too weird. I downloaded a version with AI art, while the screenshots were still the old ones. And after playing a bit, I checked back with the page and wondered why I never got to the part with the screenshots. When I reloaded the page, you had changed the screenshots and made this devlog.
