I am baffled by the 1 star reviews, which are mostly not talking about the quality of the game, just complaining about having to pay for it. I could understand the upset if this was just a money grab, but this is so far from being just another quick 'refresh' knockout to make money. It is very evident just how much passion the team had for this remaster project, and their desire to do it justice, and they have absolutely smashed it. To refute some of the silliar assertions I have included some quotes directly from the kickstarter brief. 'Backgrounds are being repainted in 4K from the original line art.', 'Character sprites are being redrawn, with a particular focus on character expression.', 'Dynamic shadows and lighting enrich the beautiful 2D graphics.', 'A combination of pixel art and drawn cells that are now being lovingly redrawn.'. What can I say, but wow, it is absolutely incredible. The artwork is fantastic, and being able to tab to jump back in to the original graphics really demonstrates just how much loving effort the team have put into this remaster. The hifedilty originally recorded score have been used throughout, so none of the 11 kHz compression loss, so that also sounds great too. There are a few areas of dissonance with regards to the character voicing (obvious sound booth, some a bit emotionally dry) but given that it would be impossible to re-record these without losing a lot of it's originality, I'm okay with it. Gameplay remains what it was, incredible, and thankfully, enough time has elapsed that I can't remember all of the puzzles (got completely stuck with the goat for way too long) so to a large extent it feels like playing it from scratch. I wholeheartedly recommend anyone to give it a whirl.
