I have the original on here, and it's a good game. this one is nice as it doesn't take any hoops to get running (though the patch for the original made things much easier). I decided to try it out on the added controller support, and found that to be a really fun way to revisit this game. There was mention that there was no offline installer available for this game, but I did not find that to be true. I do have access to an offline installer for this game from the best i can tell. based on my testing. Is it night and day different than the original.. no... but it has some added improvements that are certainly welcome. I saw a review on here that got made about all the banners at the beginning which i will say is true. that didn't bother me.. If they weren't skippable then that'd be annoying, but I just press esc, and move on. I think they changed enough to make it enjoyable for me, but it's largely the same as the original. It's nice to play on a handheld, and on the tv with a controller, and that (to me) makes it's a lot of fun to revisit. If you already own the original.. it's probably hard to recommend unless you're looking for a nice way to play on the go, or on the sofa. being that I owned the original I thought it was cool that there was a big discount that you could get on this version. I'm glad i picked it up.
I never had an issue launching the game prior to the update, but now i get a black box that pops up, and then the game crashes. The update claims it made it work on windows 10/11, but it doesn't seem to wrok on my windows 11 machine now when it did work prior to the update on the same machine.