Let's start with some positive stuff:
-The original game is still on sale, this is an amazing move by everyone involved and in this day and age where original games get delisted all the time when a remaster comes out I can only praise this situation.
-Game was sold at a huge discount for owners of the original, and even without this discount the game is only 5 more dollars (excluding sales of course, in sales the original is usually sold at around a 2 dollar price)
-The game has finally received a patch that lets you change graphics setings! This doesn't change the new art direction that much but now you can optimize if you don't have a beast PC and you can remove a lot of visual blur with those new settings.
-It includes the director commentary of the original game, which is an amazing watch on the original vision.

Now I do not recommend this Graphical Remaster because the only thing this version adds is a "coop mode" that supports a second controller, you could always play coop with one controller if you wanted but coop was never the intended way to play (something the game even states when you pick coop which I find strange).
And the new graphics, while they can look good in some very specific moments, have completely messed up the character design, art direction and for some reason they also changed the cutscene direction as well. (I find all those 3 changes inferior to the original vision).

So now what would make this game a recommend then? What would appease the fans?
I think the possibility to switch between the original art and cinematic direction would be what is needed.
If this was an option this would be the definitive experience and well worth the price, but now I can only recommend that you play the original, and if you're looking for a coop game by the same team please play It Takes Two instead, it literally has all the coop mechanics of Brothers and more and was BUILT for coop.

Let's start with some positive stuff: -The original game is still on sale, this is an amazing move by everyone involved and in this day and age where original games get delisted all the time when a remaster comes out I can only praise this situation. -Game was sold at a huge discount for owners of the original, and even without this discount the game is only 5 more dollars (excluding sales of course, in sales the original is usually sold at around a 2 dollar price) -The game has finally received a patch that lets you change graphics setings! This doesn't change the new art direction that much but now you can optimize if you don't have a beast PC and you can remove a lot of visual blur with those new settings. -It includes the director commentary of the original game, which is an amazing watch on the original vision. Now I do not recommend this Graphical Remaster because the only thing this version adds is a "coop mode" that supports a second controller, you could always play coop with one controller if you wanted but coop was never the intended way to play (something the game even states when you pick coop which I find strange). And the new graphics, while they can look good in some very specific moments, have completely messed up the character design, art direction and for some reason they also changed the cutscene direction as well. (I find all those 3 changes inferior to the original vision). So now what would make this game a recommend then? What would appease the fans? I think the possibility to switch between the original art and cinematic direction would be what is needed. If this was an option this would be the definitive experience and well worth the price, but now I can only recommend that you play the original, and if you're looking for a coop game by the same team please play It Takes Two instead, it literally has all the coop mechanics of Brothers and more and was BUILT for coop.