My nostalgia goggles for that game are strong, same with the Need for Speed on Gameboy, younger me was convinced those were the best graphics could ever get
His last post says he can't sustain dev time and his full time job and that he burned out and needed a long break. Feels like after the wife thing the game was doomed but I was really hopeful. Especially with Desert Stalker production slowing down
Seems pretty understandable they don't want people making throwaway accounts just to spam and fuck off, I imagine the retention of people who start to talk for coins and then just keep using the forum for real is pretty good
The worst is when such little effort is put in that youre basically looking at different characters each time, I went through a VN where each update one of the LIs was getting re-rendered and barely resembled their first appearance
Some games are so much better with Sancho's mods that I don't think I'd even try replayying them without it, especially the longer ones with so many points to keep track of