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‘Instead or rewriting TRR and ruining the series (from what I've seen and heard), PB should have rewritten ATV instead. That book had potential if it focused more on MC and less on MC's siblings.’

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As my brilliant friend said, “The team literally had to rewrite the entire goddamn book to make Drake a decent human being lol.”

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TRR Remastered

Alright, trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent and not a jumble of words.

I hate this for a lot of reasons. I see everyone frustrated that old players don’t get access to the new content, so I’m not really gonna address that here. The reason is obvious; PB eliminated outfit choices that old players already paid diamonds for. That does bring me to my first point, however...

Erasing =/= Editing

I know some of the older books (ROE, TF) have been getting some edits and additional diamond scenes. Now, I haven’t played these revised books, so I gladly welcome any corrections/clarifications, but I am guessing nothing was eliminated from those books, that it was instead all new content added to those stories. Here, PB is certainly getting rid of content. They are adding new diamond outfits that replace, not supplement, the old diamond outfits.

This is messy for a lot of reasons. I bought that leather jacket outfit in chapter one in my first playthrough, and honestly, it helped me build my MC. Now, years later, she feels so real to me, and quite frankly, I don’t think I would have imagined the same woman if I couldn’t throw her into a leather jacket as a go-to casual look. She wore that outfit all the time, including into TRH. That possibility is gone for new players.

Why? The art is paid for already. It exists. Why get rid of content people love? It’s the same issue I have with the special editions of the Star Wars original trilogy, when George Lucas just added a bunch of shit, messed with stuff, and then actively worked to make it impossible for people to own the original versions. Versions of those films that were very near and dear to their hearts are now relics that are difficult to watch.

What is Canon?

That actually flows into my next thought, which is that we will now have two versions of canon for this story. Star Wars fans will hear the phrase “Han shot first” and know exactly what I’m talking about. To briefly summarize, in A New Hope, Harrison Ford’s Han Solo shot a bounty hunter who was verbally threatening him before the bounty hunter could make a physical move. It was an important character moment to introduce Han Solo as a man who was comfortable on the wrong side of the law. In the Special Edition, he lets the bounty hunter get a shot off a nanosecond before he shoots, making the bounty hunter wildly incompetent as the shot was at point-blank range, and erasing some of Han’s moral ambiguity as he now clearly kills the alien in physical self-defense.

So what is the canon version of Han’s character defining introduction? Is it the original or the more recent and more readily accessible? We now have that same issue with TRR. The old players have certain introductions to these characters. Looking at the screenshots, new players are going to get a different impression of/interactions with Liam, Drake, and Maxwell. Which of these is the canon version of the events? How does the fandom navigate this going forward, when newer players who only know TRR 2.0 start to grow in numbers?

Just Why?

Why would you significantly alter a giant cash cow for your company, but only for some players? This is such a messy way to go about things. It will piss off loyal readers that they don’t have access to certain content. This is just a fact. It’s one thing to add content to encourage replays. It’s another to essentially release a new version of the story for only a select portion of your user base.

But I’m now left to wonder if I would have fallen in love with TRR had I started playing it today. My MC would undoubtedly be a different woman as she wouldn’t rock a leather jacket, and she wouldn’t be the devil at the first ball. Those outfit choices were more than aesthetics; they helped define her personality. Her interactions with Liam, Drake, and Maxwell would also be different if these screenshots are any indication. Would I care about this group as much if things were significantly different?

So yeah, I hate this. I also hate that new chapter one diamond outfit with a burning fury, but that’s probably beside the point.

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