YMMV / Genocide

• Polished Port: The FM Towns compilation of both games gives these games enhanced graphics, improved sound quality, new cinematics, and arranged soundtracks. FM Towns version also polishes some things up in the first game by re-balancing the enemy placement and difficulty while in the second game Betty no longer has a cooldown meter, an individual Weapon Select button (in the original, you had to press Attack+Jump while crouching to change weapons), and you have more attacks to pull off with your saber.
  • The DOS version of Genocide 2 is more-or-less a port of the FM Towns version but goes back to Sharp X68000 version's cut-scenes. In its place, however, features enhanced CD-quality music not found in any other version. The visuals also have been improved although fewer colors were used.
• Porting Disaster: The PC Engine CD version of the first game has inferior graphics than the Sharp X68000, weaker sound quality, and a horrid difficulty spike by way of worse collision detection (and enemies will take advantage of this a lot), awful enemy placement and cheap level design (especially mid-to-late game), and less responsive controls.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The theme "Jack & Betty", played in stage 2-2 from the second game, sounds very similar to Paula Abdul's Straight Up.

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