Omg I know. I recently ordered a copy to play on my Wii, and I remembered the characters looked weird- but they were worse than I remembered lol. The characters literally look like toddlers. Also apparently I accidentally got a copy where you can't choose your gender so I was stuck being a guy. Kinda wasted 20 bucks on that for nostalgia lol.
I also sometimes get a strange urge to play the SNES one, and I have that on my Wii, too, so I'll play that. It's so weird seeing the huge difference.
So many people I've met prefer keyboards, but I spent most of my childhood holding a controller, so a keyboard is weird and foreign and I don't like change. I'm like a grumpy old man >:C
P. much after you beat any HM game, it gets boring. It's like AC for me- once I beat it I find myself just skipping along through days because I've done everything. A New Beginning got like that in... I'd say like 2 weeks max? I beat the game before I even got the greenhouse lol, but I kept going JUST to get that cause I was like "Well F me, I've come this far, might as well get it."