If so then i feel ripped off. I guess i should have looked this up before i bought it. PS1 original is awesome atleast.

it dosnt feel AI upscaled..

you have to remember the original games had like 16x16 32x32 or 128x128 textures that were also streached out but in resolutions of 320x200. today you have resolutions of 1920x1080x 2k (1440) and 4k

a game will never feel the same as we remember it as kids. but i am enjoying croc and feel they did a really good job with the remaster. cant wait for croc 2.

but thats just my perspective on the matter

I agree. People have been burned in by an handful of titles that now they get tunnel vision and assume AI everywhere. I don't see anything here that I can confidently say that it was AI. Specially considering the original textures.

The textures kinda looks suspicious is all. If it got the Spyro Remake treatment then i would be very happy atleast. But AI art often looks like slop often. I only gave exception to Broken Sword 1 Reforged due to nostalgia. But its why i compare AI art to Modern art, it can be called art, but overall its very bad art.

edit: I mean have some nitpicks with dragon and enemy design in Spyro remake. But other than that it looks very good!

AFAIK the textures were redrawn by hand, not upscaled by AI. I don't know why they've smoothed some of that cool grittiness you had with the original ones, but it wasn't AI.