prayformojo on 22 March 2014
This is some revisionist BS IMO. The game was nearly flawless for it's time and scored 9's all over the place. You can't review a game 13 years after it's release, because you're judging it against everything that advanced the series afterwards.
I can't stand retro reviews because of this. If you're wanting to know how good the game was for it's time, go read the original reviews when it released and for the love of god, don't bitch about it because it "aged" or "feels archaic". Why? Because it IS old and IS arachaitc. Complaining about an old game playing like an old game is the dumbest thing in gaming journalism.
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