Hello! How are you doing? :)
Thank you very much for your feedback and for your nice words!
Answering your questions:
1 - The game does not use AI, we had a problem with some of the backgrounds, but not with the portraits. Explaining better: I have two people helping me with the art, one of those was using AI to edit some backgrounds, those were removed. Right now we do not have a consistent art-style. Since I am honestly pretty much an amateur, and these two collaborators are my brother and his friend, we are going pretty sleazy with some of the designs. You might notice that Krissetor and Vicario also have different busts, that was because those were some of the very first models made, and by then we honestly had no idea what we were doing. Vicario's frame is for example traced from an old visual novel (the silhouette). I will correct those inconsistent designs later, but for now I am just focused on making more images so I can keep adding more content and updates to the game!
In addition, I am many times using https://pixelartvillage.com/ to enforce color palettes or pixelization on portraits and backgrounds. Some backgrounds like for example the midas background were picked from normal images from unsplash (royalty free), pixelated on pixelartvillage, then edited on photoshop, so some of the images are not naturally pixel art, but rather backgrounds edited or quick drawings adapted to pixel art
It is sleazy, yes, but at least for now that is the direction taken, since I am working mostly by myself and my friend and brother are helping for free
I plan to hire artists to help me in the next two months!
2 - Yes, that bug needs to be fixed, do not worry, a fix will come tonight, thank you very much for reporting! :)
Hope you enjoy the game, please, if you have more questions feel free to ask!