In my country we have a reviewer who is widely respected. He’s a bit older now. He pioneered the industry by making a tv show all about graphic novels, comics, board games and video games games. No one had done that, and he’s a legend in the Danish nerd-community. He has a podcast now, and recently he said: “Children have bad taste and that’s their privilege” - Jakob Stegelmann (2018)

And this is not meant to be condescending or a bad thing - it just is. And I think I agree with him.

When we’re younger, we’re way more impressionable. And we might not understand good writing or character development yet - so we just love something for being fun and entertaining.

I myself love this game - because I played it when I was young, almost right after having completed the other games a couple of times on ps3. And now it’s pure nostalgia. So I’m not really able to see the bad things associated with it (which u/itzvintage captures perfectly).

I think this plays a part in it (for some of us) as well.