It's a good remaster in terms of the higher resolution support and fixed bugs, but that's almost it. I would recommend this over the original, but it has some odd, not fitting effects (That you can thankfully disable) like bloom, HDR, SSAO that seemingly doesn't work, and some poorly upscaled textures (It's worse on knight faces). My biggest issue is that out of all of these, the AI upscaled textures can't be disabled and.... I don't know why. Despite these issues, I'd say it's good, mostly on sale though.

Yes chop em all in somewhat grim surrounding
Takes some time to learn but rewarding

Not gonna lie, I was madly in love with this game 23 years ago.

The story is mostly a generic one although mildly in connection with Armenian legends. You can choose between 4 characters, Barbarian, Dwarf, Knight and Amazon girl. Each of them has their unique class weapons and can perform devastating attack combinations with them. However if you please, you can use mundane weapons and objects if you are ok to forfeit combos. I recommend every player to hack goblin's limb off, grab it and beat another senseless with it at least once just for giggles, but make sure that is not your game plan.

The game allows wide variety of combat approaches in theory. In practice control responses are a bit stiff and you will have trouble to perform strong combinations. If you are having such problems and you still does not wish to abandon the game I recommend provoking enemies into attack and make a distance, when their last attack whiffs, swiftly close in and hit them with some basic attack and then repeat. There is another viable approach and I strongly recommend using it on group of skeletons or multiple strong enemies. Namely hostiles can damage each other, if you gather a bunch of them in narrow area close in to provoke them into swinging and then step back as they massacre each other. When they are low on health go in and perform a final blow so the experience goes to you.

Game is strongly reliant on physics. If you hit a goblin, it will stagger. If you hit a skeleton it will not, as they do not feel pain. If you hit an enemy shield you shall bounce off and open the opportunity for enemy to counter. If you hit enemy shield sufficient times it shall shatter and you shall gain an excellent opportunity against staggered enemy etc, etc.

Level design and puzzles are superb, you can save the game at any time even during the combat. Don't be shy to pick a bow and arrows even if it is not your character's class preferred weapon as you might need it to solve certain puzzles or you can eliminate enemies on observation posts and vantage points. Take your time to observe and memorize attack patterns and combinations of each enemy type.

There are two ways to win the game. The first one is the survival rush through levels, you shall fight the evil entity at the end and defeat it with bitter knowledge that it shall reappear in the future and another hero shall need to step up and save the world again. The second one is thorough exploration and gathering several gems you shall use to imbue the Ianna's sword and with it you can defeat the evil entity forever.

I tried the game on Win10 and it works without issues. The game looks pretty much the same as I remember it but among options you shall find some directly in relation with playing on modern systems. I am against the idea to purchase the game on full price, 13 euros for 23 years old game is a bit excessive.

During the mid game you shall encounter a difficult boss looking like a flayed mutant that can teleport behind you messing with auto lock feature. When it does that tap forward two times to run away from him making his backstabbing attack whiff and then turn quickly and try to punish.