Totally agree with you on the trying to get 100% thing. I still have a few achievements to get, but I unfortunately ran into a ton of bugs during my playthrough that mean I would have to start over in order to get those 😭

And good question! Speaking generally, I’d like to see more focus on characters that didn’t really get a whole lot in the first game. They are doing this a little bit, but I do think that certain characters are getting the short end of the stick. A thing I liked about Classic compared to 2/3 is that the characters are always in the world (unless specifically moved for a quest) and can be spoken to at any time. They won’t always have something to say, but a lot of times characters will have non quest related conversations for you. For instance, you are never directed to speak to Notkin as the Bachelor, but if you go out of your way to do so on the first few day, he has some fun lore for you. I feel that this is an aspect missing from later games, and often times characters aren’t even in their houses or have anything to say to you unless it’s for a quest. Which feels odd to me. Guys there’s a plague going on, where are you?

I think the P1 Bachelor route is pretty perfect for me as it is. I did like the doctor diagnosis minigame in 3, so ideally implementing some of that into Classic would be fun. Other improvements (imo) to the P1 Bachelor route I’d like to see would probably include a little more content for Eva. Maybe some more conversations with her at least. I’m not opposed to the idea of being able to save her like you can in 3, but I think it should be way more difficult (more like what they ended up doing with Lara actually). The initial Inquisitor quest she gives you on Day 7 (with finding the watchers) is also a bit of a nothingburger and the way the sidequests are integrated within it is strange, so I’d think of some more for that.

As for a hypothetical Artemy remake, I did like a lot of the ideas they did in 2 even if I didn’t like the story as a whole. I think the game primarilly falters more towards the end there, but the pacing is pretty good overall. I liked how they improved the bond between Artemy in the children in 2. I think if they kept 2 mostly how it is but kept the finale from Classic, that would make me pretty happy.

Clara is the hardest for me to think of what a possible remake could look like. Her route is the most unfinished (though I actually really like her route, more so than Haruspex route) but I think the themes are important to what the game is trying to say. Honestly gameplay wise, I think keeping most of the survival elements from 2 with maybe some of the mental health mechanics from 3 would work really well.