Recent reviews by Shmuck Norris

Overall, a really solid remaster. The graphics are absolutely stunning and Aspyr have been incredibly faithful to the originals. They have also added some much needed QoL updates to some of the movements in 1 and 3 and they only serve to improve the game and not take away from it. I haven't used modern controls because I've always preferred tank controls so I can't speak on that. I'm also super happy that they've made the save system better because it makes the games (3 especially) much less tedious and repetitive and punishing. What's also awesome is that once you've beaten each game, you can do a new game+ mode which honours the classic save system if you want a challenge which is so awesome. One thing I will say that really bugs me is that you can't replay certain levels once you've beaten them. I would love to play the Temple of Xian from 2 again because I really enjoy that level and the visuals in the remaster are incredible but in order for me to do that I would need to play through the whole game again (as it is at the end of the game) just to play it. I know that you can go into the game files and restore a certain backup but that's just a tedious work around to a feature that was present in the original games but not present at the time of me writing this. Overall tho, I'm super happy with this and could not recommend this enough to anyone who enjoys the franchise and wants to see where it all started.