I deleted my post because of regret from one of the individuals involved, but after Mechafetus/Amanaguchi were put on the project, additional development staff was added less for having relevant skills than for being on good terms with certain people at Ubi, which stalled progress; the game got cancelled internally, but no third parties were willing to take on the project, so it went back to Ubi's original team with Chinese contractors. Apparently the Chinese were great and they wished they could have taken over responsibility for even more stuff (e.g. the rest of the lackluster sound design). The final boss was (unsurprisingly) originally a huge cockbeast that all the penises had to be censored out of by the Chinese; there may or may not have also been dickgirls at some point. A lot of random things also got changed, like the character faces in the pre-battle profile images, etc. They didn't really want to make it all grindy but marketing insisted.
