Talk:The Legend of Dark Witch 3/@comment-27343887-20190401042057/@comment-4110664-20190823024456

Dark Witch 3 is, mechanically, the best game of the series by a long shot. Dark Witch 1 has lopsided difficulty, between significant health bloat beyond Easy and losing all of your powerups when you lose a life. Dark Witch 2 took all of the wrong lessons from Dark Witch 1 and decided to "fix" the difficulty by making the level design incredibly plain, as well as making the bosses both very simple and ridiculously easy to shut down with their weaknesses. Dark Witch 3 is arguably the hardest game of the three, but it feels much more "fair" with its difficulty due to changes like the reduced penalty from falling into a bottomless pit and keeping your slots when you die. The bosses are better, the level design is MUCH better, and the game lacks much of the "jank" inherent in the first two games.

The problem with Dark Witch 3 is that after two games (plus Brave Dungeon), fans have naturally developed expectations as to what a Dark Witch game "should" have, particularly with unlockables and postgame features. And on that front, Dark Witch 3 is a big disappointment. No postgame options beyond Day, who is essentially a Hard Mode, makes the minigames feel near-worthless.

tl;dr: Dark Witch 3 has the best gameplay, but has issues as an overall package. I think that it's absolutely the best game in the series, but many people don't and it's easy to see why.