I am the author of this mod. I do not know where and whose reviews and reviews you have read, but I can say one thing - you cannot judge things based on someone else's opinion, because you do not know these people and their tastes.
It's like a beer, some people like one, others like the other. Who would you prefer?
As someone else said, take what I said with a grain of salt. I'm one of the people that lobbied to make Eric less inevitable in the original game, and was ecstatic when he was taken out of it. That kind of stuff was not at all what the majority of his supporters wanted at the time, although it seems that the public's tastes have shifted over the years.
And I can make decisions based on specific things mentioned in the reviews. That's kind of what reviews are for, to give you a peek into things. If someone says a restaurant sucks, that I can see as being subjective. But on the other hand, if I hate cilantro, and multiple reviews specifically mention a restaurant uses it in every single entree... well, then I know the restaurant is not for me. That's a pretty safe call to make. Maybe the food is objectively good, but I know that trying the place will just not be a good experience for me. Now, if the restaurant is a favorite restaurant of mine, under new ownership, and cilantro didn't even have a presence before, then I will find that even more frustrating as I read the reviews.
That being said, my apologies for what was a response based out of frustration out of seeing one of my favorite games get another remake/continuation that seems like it took things on a much different course than what I hoped. I'm sure there's a lot of people that loved the mod, but love doesn't tend to generate posts or reviews. Complaining is far easier. I could of course try to make my own mod or game, but I have neither the patience nor talent for it. So keep doing what you do. I don't agree with what I perceive as the direction you took the game, but I won't say it is wrong on an absolute level. It is just wrong for me personally.
