I get the feeling this project started off decently enough, but soon became bogged down from the developer not being able to have a reasonable sense of scope, a bad case of featuritis, allowing his personal preferences and especially his fetishes to dominate to the detriment of the plot and gameplay making coherent sense, and getting a swelled head from having so many fans who did like what he was doing he didn't want to hear criticism.
Toss in shady copyright shenanigans, inability to handle anything less than glowing praise, and letting his vision blind him to his actual level of competence, and no wonder this project has become a trainwreck of creepiness and bruised egoism.