Yeah, I know why they took it out, but that doesn't make it right if you ask me.

I've seen people say that more than just that was dumbed down though, even going so far as to say that enough was screwed up by the translation for them to consider this game inferior to the other versions (considering the sometimes horribly broken script it originally had, that kind of tells me something). I suppose I won't know the full extent until I play it through for myself, but needless to say, I'm haven't been left with the highest of hopes. Some of the examples quoted in this thread do at least make me think that it might not be nearly as dysmal as I've been worrying it would be.