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* [[TheSecretOfNIMH The Secret of NIMH]] [[{{Sequelitis}} 2]]: [[SpotlightStealingSquad Timmy]] [[FlatWhat to the Rescue]]. Good lord, need I say more?

***** [[GameBreakingBug Because sometimes it doesn't]]

* ''KingdomHeartsII'' is a perfect example of this. The action was expanded upon, with new abilities like "merging" with teammates, and just an overall greater focus on the action. On the other hand, the platforming elements and secret out-of-the-way treasure chests were greatly reduced. Some say ''Kingdom Hearts II'' is a great sequel and use the action as their main argument, others argue that part of what made the first game so great is gone, complaining about the less exploratory level design and accusing the game of having an extremely weak and [[KudzuPlot complicated]] story in which [[CharacterDerailment the characters we love]] [[BadassDecay aren't themselves.]]

** ''TheBatman'' was tossed into this the moment it was announced. The show was unrelated to [=TNBA=] and was a reboot, but some [=TNBA=] fans felt it didn't live up to "the standard." Eventually the show grew into its own path and found its own group of fans who don't care about the NostalgiaFilter from previous series.

* For a case of Contester '''Prequel''', we have ''StarWars''. For those with even a passing knowledge of the six movies or the... "[[FlameWar arguments]]" that spring up because of them, this doesn't even need to be explained. In short, despite the bile, all three prequels were commercial successes.

* ''StarWars''. For those with even a passing knowledge of the six movies or the... "[[FlameWar arguments]]" that spring up because of them, this doesn't even need to be explained. In short, despite the bile, all three prequels were commercial successes.

-->--'''[[{{Ben10}} Ben Tennyson]]''', [[FandomNod mirroring the fandom's feelings about]] Ben10AlienForce

* ''[[{{Naruto}} Naruto Shippuden]]'' has become a Contested Sequel overtime due to the [[SpotlightStealingSquad focus put on Sasuke and the Uchiha's]].

* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'' was a Contested Sequel even before it aired due to the TimeSkip aging the nine-year-old main characters to adulthood; some were relieved that people might finally stop judging them for watching {{lolicon}} bait, others saw it as an insult to the original. Later accusations came from the copious amounts of [[IsntItSad screentime]] [[SpotlightStealingSquad shafting]] resulting from the franchise's LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, the heavy reliance on the ExpandedUniverse to [[AllThereInTheManual explain many minor events]], and the return to the slow pace of season one rather than a quick-moving plot like ''A's'' had.

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* NewSuperMarioBrosWii is the very definition of this.
** Also, ''SuperPaperMario'' in the PaperMario series.

** See the GameFAQs [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4172 Game of the Decade poll]] with these two games. They were really, really close to each other.

->''"This isn't the best one to start with. It's not 'Sumo Slammers' classic. It's 'Sumo Slammers: Hero Generation'. It's a sequel to the original show, but they kinda' messed it up. [[LampshadeHanging It's like five years later and the bad guy Kanko has teamed up with the hero Ishiyama.]] [[SelfDeprecation It's not very realistic, is all I'm saying.]]"''

* Most {{Dragonball}} fans pretend that GT doesn't exist.

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* The {{Scream}} trilogy has been quite contested as well. None of the fans seem to agree on which movie was the best or the worst. Some say that the 3rd was the weakest of the series. Others say it was an improvement over the second, but both pale in comparison to [[FirstInstallmentWins the first.]] Then there are some who say that the second was better than the first, [[YourMileageMayVary and so on and so forth...]]

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* ''{{Fallout}} 2'' promised an immensely enlarged gameworld with tons of deep [[SideQuest Side Quests]] and [=NPCs=], and most fans agree that it delivered. ''Fallout 2'' is also loaded with excessively GenreSavvy characters, NoFourthWall humor and [[SchizoTech out of place elements]], not to mention even more red herrings and broken quests left over from unfinished parts of the game than the original ''Fallout''.

* In the world of CommandAndConquer, C&C Tiberian Dawn is the only game that isn't a sequel, and is consequently the only game that isn't a ContestedSequel. Red Alert is contested for being nothing but a Tiberian Dawn remake (Gameplay wise, at least) C&C Tiberian Sun is contested for being too dark and Science Fiction-y, C&C Red Alert 2 is contested for being too damn cheesy (Oh, and the CanonDisContinuity) C+ C Generals is contested for being an InNameOnly spinoff, C&C Tiberum Wars is contested for its CanonDisContinuity and its striking resemblance to Generals, and finally, C&C Red Alert 3 is contested for cheesy-ness that reaches outright silly, CanonDisContinuity, and lots of other stuff. Suffice to say, epic FlameWars have errupted over which games are "good" and which games are "bad".

* ''GrandTheftAutoIV''. Some love it for its realism, rich characters, production values and gritty nature, while others chastise it for those very things, prefering the zany, cartoony, over the top style of San Andreas and Vice City. Thankfully, the ''SaintsRow'' series offers that experience, leaving everyone happy in the end.

* Supream Commander 2 removed the epic scale maps and unit options in return for imtimite battles and more detail. makeing it easy for casual gamers to fight short battles.

* ''Doom 3'' is either a scary survival horror interpretation of the classic franchise, or it's a game that tosses out everything fun about the first two games, while keeping all the things players grew to loathe about them.
* TombRaider Legend was a reboot of the series by a different developer, with as much changes as that implies. Let's just leave it to the BrokenBase whether this is the point where it [[GrowingTheBeard grew the beard]] or [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]].
* TheLegendOfZelda[[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]] is [[LoveItOrHateIt highly controversial]] within the fanbase, considering it was meant to be a return to the [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]] formula. One half of the fanbase loves the game, saying that it is a return to the perfection that is Ocarina of Time and that the graphical style of the game is what should have been done in the first place with [[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]], while the other half of the fanbase decries it as a lazy rehash of the aforementioned game, saying that {{Nintendo}} should have came up with a more original idea and bashing the graphics, calling it [[RealIsBrown bland and unoriginal]]

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* Some will argue that ''AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' is better than the first movie because it's [[LighterAndSofter not as depressing]] and it spends more time developing secondary characters, plus, you know, it has JohnCleese playing a villain. Others would argue that making the movie LighterAndSofter completely took away what made the first movie so great in the first place.

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewSuperMarioBrosWii New Super Mario Bros. Wii]] is the very definition of this.