#this dlc is rly good! i like what it adds to the game n it has a cute lil story :]

[mistyechoes]

NOOO I WAS RIGJT HE DID HAVE A VILLAIN ARC

[6ad6ro]

so i'm tryin to think of good games that had newer versions that were imo significantly worse than the originals. i'm not including fighters or full remakes tho. some examples i can think of are:

-dead rising 2 off the record-

the story/characters aren't nearly as good as regular dr2, and they really screwed up trying to make it harder. one of the biggest improvements that dr2 had over dr1 was with escorting survivors, but in otr they made it really tedious again. there's little things too, like the pause screen music being much worse. but even tho i think reg dr2 is much better, dr2otr is full of new n fun content that makes it worth playing. i still love that it exists.

-dark souls 2 scholar of the first sin-

and no i don't mean the bundle of dlc u can add to the orig version. the dlc itself was fine. i mean the weird "remixed" version where they changed enemy placement and just... ruined it, honestly. poor, cheap, unfair, unfun enemy placement. it's like a child modded the map. miya thinking he was somehow "fixing" ds2 with his piss-poor changes is visible direct evidence of how shoddy he can be as a creator. i mean he absolutely george lucas'd it. except the tryhard fanbase has such shit taste that they actually prefer this version?! sotfs is one giant macklunkey and yet the souls tryhards stand up and applaud. i hate them and i hate this.

-castlevania symphony of the night (saturn)-

i don't hate this nearly as much as others do. i quite like it actually. but it's pretty obvious that the original is better, even though it has less content. the visuals of the saturn ver are just a lot worse. and the new areas are a bit silly n out of place. it runs more poorly. etc etc etc you've heard it all before... i LOVE the addition of maria mode tho. and the new content is fun n sometimes genuinely good idk! ftr i also like the orig better than the weird hybrid psp ver (requiem) as well. but once again, even tho this is worse than the orig, i'm still rly glad it exists.

-super mario 64 ds-

it was impressive that they could port it at all tbh, and havin portable mario 64 was rad! n i actually like some of the additional content in theory? but it all came at too big of a cost. taking moveset options away from mario in order to justify switching between characters really fucked up the flow of what made orig mario 64 so great. the issues went well beyond control issues (which were awful) and technical issues (which were understandable). i still like m64ds, but it's just obv way worse than the original. and now that we have a couple versions of proper mario 64 portably on switch, there's even LESS reason to ever play this version.

there are def other examples on the tip of my tongue, but i just can't remember em right now. maybe i'll add em in later.