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TL;DR: Mixed opinion. Original games are amazing, but this "remaster" doesn't add or fix anything meaningful.

It's time to wipe the morning dews of nostalgia from your hazy rose-tinted glasses. As much as I LOVED the original games, Patapon 1+2 Replay is unfortunately just a glorified bare PC port. It just doesn't do enough for a supposed remaster, and most of the new "improvements" don't do just that - improve.

60 FPS is laughably redundant because the game is largely animated in a lower frame rate. It may even be harmful as I've perceived some mechanics to be behaving weirdly outside of the original 30 FPS, but take that with a grain of salt.

The new difficulties are also quite artificial and inject even more unnecessary grind into the games. This excess grind compounds into Patapon's repetitive loops, which makes for an unpleasant experience at times.

The upscaled graphics are nice, but some graphics are weirdly misaligned as a result? Still appreciated.

The audio also hasn't been improved at all, so they sound weirdly compressed and lo-fi for something released today.

There is also no multiplayer. That's probably why Patapon 3 isn't packaged with this product, as it's a multiplayer-centric take on the series.

They also did not address what I thought was one of the biggest problems with the gameplay, which was having to drop Fever in order to properly respond to some boss attacks due to their attack patterns being out of sync with the game's rhythm. Having to drop rhythm in a rhythm game is absurd and frustrating. Though this seems to be a problem mostly with the first game.

Loot drops can STILL disappear when they're in unreachable areas like behind a boss, or even simply just being unable to move in order to loot in scripted events. This will happen a LOT.

The resource farm mini-games are as repetitive as ever and arguably more essential this time around.

The miracles are also as repetitive as ever and they STILL drop your Fever for some reason.

But even after all that, Patapon is still Patapon. It's still fun. It's still charming, whimsical, and unique. I don't regret buying this and I'm still having fun despite these grievances because I love this series so much, but truth be told, emulating/playing the original games won't be much different.