The freshened-up graphics make the game look more like I remember it and less like it actually looked, which is a good thing. They also got their hands on the original uncompressed sound files, so audio quality is noticeably better! The point-and-click gameplay didn't need any changes, but they've rolled some changes from later seasons into this one to make the controls a bit smoother. The dialogue writing is excellent and the dynamic between Sam & Max is consistently wonderful. The high joke frequency can get a bit exhausting when playing for long stretches of time, but fortunately the game comes pre-portioned into short episodes! Puzzles are mostly fairly straightforward, though I did get stuck a few times. Expect dialogue and item puzzles. There are also a handful of driving segments, but these are solved by figuring out the trick, not through twitch driving skill. The game's biggest issue hasn't changed from the original release: Season 1 and 2 were made on a very tight budget, and so they have to recycle environments and characters between episodes. The writers were usually clever enough to come up with an amusing reason for it, but you still get tired of the same street and handful of interiors that make up the backbone of each episode. (You can safely gnore the people crying "censorship", btw. Note the discrepancy between the "overall" and the "verified owners" rating -- they're downvoting a game they've never played because they heard it's less racist now. The changes -- besides the new voice actor for Bosco, replacing a White comedian doing a Black Guy Voice with an actual Black VA -- are extremely minor. I'd watched a Let's Play of the original release a month before playing the remaster, so my memories of it were pretty fresh, and I didn't notice any of them. Note also that Skunkape Games consists pretty much entirely of people who worked on the original release, so this isn't a case of a third party tampering with someone else's "creative vision".)
