Rat-attack
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So I did a little looking back in time and actually the game was aimed for a 2 year development cycle roughly which upon the alpha demo they pushed back a year and then a bit after the beta one when they made the DLsite sell page announcing the game they said that they would have put the release estimate for more than a year in the future.
There was something that I haven't been able to verify with my own eyes yet of that the First boss caused some sort of havoc behind the scenes resulting in it's redo. However after MCSwagger pointed out how much from Mission Mermaiden was transferred over to Hachina (bugs included) it makes it clear to me now that they copied and pasted a ton of code if they didn't just take the Mermaiden Unity project and make Hachina from that. That would make a lot of things make sense in my mind in terms of troubles and such since to fix some problems with Mermaiden I think you needed to rebuild that system from the ground up again rather than continually pile on more things onto those shaky foundations.
It is clear from my digging in the past that they had the story planned out and such and their time got sunk into making the game work (fox lady was in the game chatting away in September 2021) which they vastly underestimated the workload required as a result of poor project management. So now they're going back to a CG game probably due to having used up their funds from Mermaiden a while ago (since they had originally planned for more money to come in 2 years after it's release) and need something that they can get out for sure and not delay and risk financial trouble.
I posted more indepth and such about it on F95 in response to someone asking why MCSwagger's mod changes weren't really taken into account but I think I've said the essential bits above: First theory Post, MCSwagger's Response, My Second theory post.
There was something that I haven't been able to verify with my own eyes yet of that the First boss caused some sort of havoc behind the scenes resulting in it's redo. However after MCSwagger pointed out how much from Mission Mermaiden was transferred over to Hachina (bugs included) it makes it clear to me now that they copied and pasted a ton of code if they didn't just take the Mermaiden Unity project and make Hachina from that. That would make a lot of things make sense in my mind in terms of troubles and such since to fix some problems with Mermaiden I think you needed to rebuild that system from the ground up again rather than continually pile on more things onto those shaky foundations.
It is clear from my digging in the past that they had the story planned out and such and their time got sunk into making the game work (fox lady was in the game chatting away in September 2021) which they vastly underestimated the workload required as a result of poor project management. So now they're going back to a CG game probably due to having used up their funds from Mermaiden a while ago (since they had originally planned for more money to come in 2 years after it's release) and need something that they can get out for sure and not delay and risk financial trouble.
I posted more indepth and such about it on F95 in response to someone asking why MCSwagger's mod changes weren't really taken into account but I think I've said the essential bits above: First theory Post, MCSwagger's Response, My Second theory post.
