KIND ALERT: POSSIBLE CRITICAL BUG.
As the subject states above, I've been playing LifePlay for almost a year or more and I've never encountered such a devastating error before until the download & installment of "v.5.26 x64 update only" from the given mega.nz link.
LifePlay V.5.26 Critical Bug Encounter
In the above given screenshots link you can clearly observe that most of the static & interactive elements are missing from the Main Menu Screen, Load Save Game Screen & New Game Character Creation Screen, etc, respectively. I do assume that the save files might not be causing the problem as observed.
Further speaking, I tried to revert back to the previous version by downloading older version update only zip files from the same but still it didn't yield any fruitful results.
Finally, I had to redownload the entire v.5.26 game files altogether and create separate folder for it and then ran the game again. This time however it opened up smoothly without anything missing however the application was unable to load the old saves files which I had shifted from the older Lifeplay content/saves folder.
My download quota for Mega.nz is over for today so I'll wait until I can download & reinstall the whole game files of v.5.24 altogether and move my save files over there and then run to see if the problem still persists but all in all I do have my doubts if the problem was caused by my end.
A few things to consider : I've not made any kind of changes of any shape or form in the game files whatsoever after this recent update installment. Just like any other patch update, I've downloaded it, extracted it, pasted it in the main Lifeplay folder as specified and executed the program the usual way I've been doing for more than a year.
I'll update this post necessarily so please do advice and as always, Thank you very much for such a invaluable Life simulator game!