This game is an excellent port of the original game but the map system drives me insane and makes the already frankly excessive amount of backtracking the samey looking environments of Raccoon City even harder than it needs to be. Running into Nemesis is legitimately terrifying even today, and I feel very immersed playing this on my USB Sega Saturn gamepad in the dark in my living room at night. Reminds me of better days back in the early 2000s. One other thing, I don't know if GOG upscaled some of the signs in the environment with AI or if the original just had this but there are gibberish signs all over raccoon city that make absolutely no sense, not talking about spelling errors here, I mean just straight up non existent words. Overall I love this game and would recommend the GOG version readily.
RE2 is still an amazing and engrossing game now just as in 1998 when it came out, What can I say about it that hasn't been said a million times? The tank controls and fixed camera angles as well as a lack of a lock on system do mean combat will be difficult to learn and adjust to for a modern player that did not grow up with these games, they are also notably lacking in things like floating hint arrows or other lazy ways to indicate where you should be going, so you will have to learn to navigate the old fashioned way. Altogether, I would say, play it at least once per character within your lifetime, it is truly a unique and beautiful game world that is absolutely dripping with atmosphere and even though it is short by the standards of a modern AAA title, you really walk away from it with a strong feeling of accomplishment.
