I think you said a while back that Chapter 3 will end an arc, presumably with anna being in her coma, even though you never said what or who to try and keep it as a surprise or secret? When can we expect to see anna up and about? It's literally the only thing that makes me quite sad when I see in her in the hospital bed, nor sure how much longer I can take seeing her there in that state. Your doing a fantastic job though!
I think you should stick with HS1, because once you change the engine, your fundamentally changing the game. It won't be the same, no matter how good you can get lucy, because it won't be HS1 it will not be here, and all the othe lovable girls in the game. The house and all the other background stuff I am not a fan off, and it's not surprising you want to upgrade to HS2. However in HS2 every game I have played, the characters have always turned out to have shiny pvc looking skin. In other words they look plastic with a shine, truly horrific looking. Of course it could be that every dev who works in HS2 are just truly crap at rendering in the engine I honestly don't know, but there are far too many HS2 with this same exact problem.
As for Daz, I would love to see the entire family and side girls redone in it, with each model being completely the same from HS1, I mean just more realistic, however going back to what I originally said, if you change the art style, it will cease to be what it is, and it will be something else, something that is not MNF, no matter how 'close' you try to make the characters to how they look in HS1. You know HS1 like the back of your hand, you already have the girls, and everything else. I just wonder if you could get more assets for HS1 so you can build new sets for the characters? All we see is the same places again and again, it would be wonderful to see new things in the game, but I understand these are not as important as the stories being told.