I'm not exactly sure how you would do a "clean installation" of these types of games where you just extract the files unless it's as simple as deleting the old folder before extracting the new one (which I always do) instead of overwriting the files, or I have a misunderstanding of how it all works.
Here's the error, I hope this screenshot has enough of it to help.
![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE4MjA5MTg1LnBuZw==/original/c1cfhn.png)