AWL had nothing redeemable about it except for it's hybrid crop mechanics, aging characters, influencing your child (which was lackluster to begin with), your child actually growing up to adulthood (which is in the DS games anyway), and the chapters. Which they had to dumb down and reduce for AnWL and SE... Otherwise, no, it really doesn't have much going for it. Clearly you took the Milking Room thing way too literal and are getting overly defensive about me being realistic about just how "great" the AWL/AnWL games were. It lacked in so many areas, it had about the same amount of content, dialogue, and story as STH. AWL/AnWL and the DS games had the same characters with the same personalities in the same settings except the DS games were more fleshed out with more characters, more events, more festivals, more content, features, and mechanics added in. If you stripped everything added to the DS games, you'd basically have a DS version of AWL. It's that simple. So yes, it makes perfect sense to bundle the AWL games with the original DS games. If it really bothers you THAT much, then I'll remove AWL/AnWL entirely, but let's not stoop to that level of pettiness.white66 wrote: I...what? The milking room is one of the highlights of AWL? Really? We must have had very different experiences with AWL because as far as I know no one even really bothers with the milking room because it actually makes the process take longer.
This may be a little controversial but I don't consider DS to be a remake of AWL at all. They have the same setting and characters but those are superficial qualities as far as I'm concerned. The mechanics and story lines of the two have nothing in common. That's like saying MM is a remake because it features characters from previous game.
That last line about "that's like saying MM is a remake" was quite... uhm, "I...what?", as you put it. What you said and what I said are two completely different things. In no way did that make sense to rebuttal with. Magical Melody's Flowerbud Village looked nothing like any other games Flowerbud and you could consider that village completely different than any other Flowerbud, as if they aren't the same towns... Most of the cast had changes to their personalities and how they went about speaking, you can hardly say those characters were the same as their origin game counterparts. Hell, some of them had different jobs / roles.