I watched the interviews for this game and honestly these people didn't get why the original was good. They think they got it. They talked about the elements that made the original good, but when you saw the system in play none of it matched up. They even said they didn't wan't to re-invision but capture the old vision. Well it was more than clear what they were making was not in line with the vision. When your making a game of some elses vision you will fail. If you make a remake with your own vision you end up with a new game.
This game had fail all over it. Even outside of the review scores. It has next to nothing of the original.
No multiplayer, is not accesible to values of the gamers that made the first so good. Instead this is a beast riding God of War. This game is more flash than content. Golden didn't have flash, it had relativly shallow basic mechanics, but it's the over all package that made the game. This is one of those cases where they thought they new better.
What they should have done was make a classic 2/3d side scroller that was multiplayer. Focus on the simplicity of game play.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
