I do like Legends Vader (pre-Force Unleashed) a lot more than canon Vader. He didn’t feel overexposed or overpowered, with plenty of works centering on his loss of humanity and his self-loathing. It could get goofy (e.g., becoming the leader of the space hyenas in The Savage Heart), but I like it more than canon Vader.
This is missing from canon Vader and the franchise is worse off for it:
