Unironically, its because they lack soul. DW1 is oozing with little bits of soul everywhere that make you not care about the god awful parts. In fact, a lot of that soul comes from the jank and misery it puts you under which other games remove.
Like, Greymon ruining your entire day is something that no sane dev would do now but its one of the most remembered parts of the game to this day.
Also, I'm one of those psychos who prefers DW2 and thinks its the best Digimon game by far, and all the haters literally just need to get good and actually pay attention because their criticisms always reveal they missed something huge like the Trade Center.
So I think that's the formula they should revisit, instead of trying to recapture DW1 for the 5th time and still failing.
Unironically, its because they lack soul. DW1 is oozing with little bits of soul everywhere that make you not care about the god awful parts. In fact, a lot of that soul comes from the jank and misery it puts you under which other games remove.
Like, Greymon ruining your entire day is something that no sane dev would do now but its one of the most remembered parts of the game to this day.
Also, I'm one of those psychos who prefers DW2 and thinks its the best Digimon game by far, and all the haters literally just need to get good and actually pay attention because their criticisms always reveal they missed something huge like the Trade Center.
So I think that's the formula they should revisit, instead of trying to recapture DW1 for the 5th time and still failing.