No but I played the EA where you still had the fishermen encounter that got removed for no reason or when the tadpole posed en existential threat instead of being harmless powerups and there was a legitimate battle for your soul that you could actually lose inszead of it being a meaningless cosmetic change.
A bit of splatter does not make something gritty, especially when its exclusive to the "lol splatter" Origin where everyone expects it. A feeling of hopelessness and danger, being a plaything for bigger powers does that, but all of that got removed.
You know NOT of which you speak lxal. At all. Ignorance, plain and simple.
