Please either release the game without sprites, or a pre release without sprites! Personally, I would hate to see another great game be added to the many, many unfinished games on Itch.
Trust me i know that feeling all too well! Regardless of what happens, the story choices and endings are coded in so its already 'done' storywise at least and what we have now will be published at bare minimum if we dont finish the rest because I hate incomplete stories </3