This review contains spoilers
The game is still good, like the original was.
The new stuff is nice but it overshadows Buddy with too much content about Brad and Lisa, I get that the game is named after her but she's not the protagonist of this story and underutilizing Buddy like this is criminal.
[Major spoilers past this point]
A lot of the new dialogue feels awkward and comes off as characters stating how they feel at each other with no real interaction. The Buzzo/Buddy dialogue towards the climax of the new ending is the main culprit of this. The line where Buddy, a child with no idea of what women are like as she has never met one, addresses Buzzo by starting a line with "As a woman" came off as incredibly silly.
The path to getting to the new ending is incredibly obtuse for no reason (no shot the average person is finding it without a guide). While this is a criticism that also applies to Painful's Definitive Edition, I wasn't a fan of how it handled the visions that Buddy goes through in the new areas. Lisa always had a mix of supernatural and really out there sci-fi stuff, but the supernatural elements were vague enough that you could just choose to see them as a metaphor or hallucinations or anything like that. In the new content Buddy straight up sees ghosts and things that she would have no way of knowing about, I'm not sure what this is meant to imply for the wider "canon" of the Lisa trilogy but it still left me more confused than anything, it didn't explain much and just added several more questions.
...which is something I could say about most of the new content in both games, actually.
The new stuff is nice but it overshadows Buddy with too much content about Brad and Lisa, I get that the game is named after her but she's not the protagonist of this story and underutilizing Buddy like this is criminal.
[Major spoilers past this point]
A lot of the new dialogue feels awkward and comes off as characters stating how they feel at each other with no real interaction. The Buzzo/Buddy dialogue towards the climax of the new ending is the main culprit of this. The line where Buddy, a child with no idea of what women are like as she has never met one, addresses Buzzo by starting a line with "As a woman" came off as incredibly silly.
The path to getting to the new ending is incredibly obtuse for no reason (no shot the average person is finding it without a guide). While this is a criticism that also applies to Painful's Definitive Edition, I wasn't a fan of how it handled the visions that Buddy goes through in the new areas. Lisa always had a mix of supernatural and really out there sci-fi stuff, but the supernatural elements were vague enough that you could just choose to see them as a metaphor or hallucinations or anything like that. In the new content Buddy straight up sees ghosts and things that she would have no way of knowing about, I'm not sure what this is meant to imply for the wider "canon" of the Lisa trilogy but it still left me more confused than anything, it didn't explain much and just added several more questions.
...which is something I could say about most of the new content in both games, actually.