1.088V2 is out with new content!
I asked the dev in Chinese because I thought it might get him to open up about the status of the English translation and the main artist without fear of having to use a foreign language. People have been asking about the English translation for like over a year now on here and Patreon with no response.
I realize that in this post, the dev says the game will be translated when it's finished due to the plans to edit the early parts and the difficulty in working with the scripts that are bound to the Chinese text. But hell, the post is two years old, the thread itself is six years old, and there's no end to the game in sight. Now, that's partly because the dev is passionate enough to create this wonderful 50+ hour game, and keeps providing updates to people who supported him in the past, for free. That's all well and good, but at some point, you have to give the prospective new consumer what they need.
Ostensibly, the dev has banned the sale of the game in China until it is complete because of piracy, so without an English translation, who the hell is the target audience supposed to be? Where does the funding come from?
The joke people made in the Baidu forums about having grandchildren, and their vas deferens becoming calcified before being able to play the game seems prophetic.