The story between painful and joyful was so good, the ending actually made me cry. The only game to ever do that. The story was outstanding. I will remember these games for as long as I live. Painful was the best game, joyful was the conclusion to painful. Don't spoil it if you can help it for at least 1 playthrough. It is more than worth it. 100/10. Thank you Dingaling Productions.
My new favorite game, and media overall.
Dequzey
★★★★★5/5Xbox
Much Shorter BTW.
While Painful was about somebody who failed in self reflection and redemption. This is about someone who Can win.
Clover End7279
★★★★★5/5Xbox
This game is perfect.
The best DLC of all time and as perfect as the painful. ART.
MysteryMrMan
★★★3/5Xbox
New content for Joyful is mid (Spoilers for new ending)
Joyful was already kind of underbaked, and so are the new additions to this game. First of all, the addition of Painless mode when there was an "easy mode" designed as a joke for the people complaining about the difficulty in the Legacy release. Also, Warlord Skills are not fun to use (the only ones worth using TP for are Lardy's and Lincoln's) and feel like they were added so Serenity Forge could say "WOW!! NEW FEATURES OMG".
(SPOILERS)
And to those of you who thought Buzzo was a pushover in the Legacy release, I got bad news. In a flashback sequence that leads to the new ending, he's retconned into a misogynist, and painted him as a total loon. Yeah. Instead of just changing his dialogue or something to make him redeemable like he was supposed to be, they doubled down and removed a ton of depth from his character. I love LISA RPG, but Serenity Forge just did not do the series justice