PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY

This port is just sad. I was incredibly happy to finally have Patapon games officially on PC, and while I basically managed to complete Patapon 1, I have already made up my mind to give it a negative review. I'll play the second game as well, but I doubt my mind will change. The visuals are very good, another HD remaster had some hideous graphical artifacts, this one seems free of them. Sound stands out as the OG quality, very crunchy, no idea if it was touched at all. Gameplay seemed fine for the most part. Then I got to the second last level, which is well known to be very easy, and somehow, YEARS later, it stumped me. My entire frontline was getting obliterated before I could deal enough damage. Curious I started looking around, and found on the steam forums a mention that it was a bug related to higher framerate, some enemies can attack multiple times faster or throw many more projectiles, than originally. I thought there was no way, so I checked a PSP playthrough on YT and the enemy I was fighting was firing his high damage spark once per turn, while in my game he would zap me like 4 times in a single turn. Actual 4x difficulty increase. This alone was not my problem, the bigger issue is that the forum post explaining this bug was from July last year, and any updates from the devs stopped in December, apparently never fixing this issue. So not only is fundamental mechanic broken in game, but it is left abandoned for over half a year, where paying for a remaster leaves you with an inferior product than if you just emulated. When I learned that Patapon 2, as usual, had to have its multiplayer stripped from the game, it was just a cherry on top of this s***t-cake. Made all the more sense why P3 is not on steam, removing MP from that is deleting half of that game (although it didn't stop rockstar from releasing RDR1 with no MP, so who knows). It's too late for me to refund the game, and while I will push through and complete these games, I will probably never go back to it, unless fan patches manage to fix all the problems in a more streamlined way, than it is to just emulate this game (or even pop out my actual PSP with barely working circle button). To the devs who ended each of their post with "Thank you for the continued support of the game", I wish I could say the same to you.