The GOG release of this never got some of the final patches the Steam version got in 2016, and lacks the high-res texture pack and the pawn sharing system. The GOG release is abandoned and incomplete, and shame on Capcom for still selling it anyway.
I'm enjoying it, but it feels like... you know how Quake 1 & 2 had expansion packs by different developers? This feels like that but for Hyper Light Drifter. I hate to review it entirely on how it compares to another game, so: A fun, atmospheric, but often relatively difficult top-down action game. Five stars for the soundtrack, four for the art, and the complete package is I think a low five-star kind of deal. Recommended.
Sticking with the BloodGDX fan port for a few entirely solvable reasons: * Music playback is sort of buggy, particularly when loading saves and with CD audio. * Multiplayer is useless for private/LAN games because you can't set a password or a custom name and it somehow automatically signs into Galaxy even if Galaxy isnt running. * Call me crazy but I would REALLY like the option to use full color depth instead of 256 colors or whatever faux-limited-palette thing is going on here; the banding artifacts on shaded surfaces were acceptable in DOS as a technical limitation but replicating them here is a little too purist for me. Will bump this up to five stars if they solve at least two of these 3 problems, because Blood is a five-star game and this is a great effort that only falls short because of the existence of BloodGDX.
