I played the original to death and enjoy Royal. There is allot of new content and new characters/social links. Plus the new party member is great and fits into story well. She is not just shoe horned in. Plus I hear there is a story that happens after the game ends in the original... But I have not got that far yet to confirm it.
It depends. If you play games for gameplay and graphics. It might be worth picking up. However, the story and characters are bad and there is quite a lot of SJW stuff in it. I would personally pick it up on sale if you do choose to buy it.
It’s developed by a polish studio, CD Project Red. They developed the Witcher Series. Which is great if you have not played them. They had no SJW stuff in those at all and stayed loyal to the books the games were based off of as well. So people have a lot of hope for this game. Especially since they are working with the creator of Cyberpunk, Mike Pondsmith.
It was shitty writing that killed it. What made the first game great was the interactions and relationship between Joel and Ellie. They threw that out and made Joel into an idiot who forgot he doesn’t trust anyone and Ellie into an almost unlikable person completely. I’m not even gonna get into the new protagonist and ending. Just a shitshow all the way around story-wise really.
Ah, a fellow azur lane fan. Nice to meet a fellow ship enthusiast.