Worth it for the right player.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $11.99.
- Story and characters: 160 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 130 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 92 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 772 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Overall, I’ve enjoyed playing so far, I like the graphics and the story.
Overall, I’ve enjoyed playing so far, I like the graphics and the story.
The core gameplay is more or less identical to the 1990 original, with some well thought out additions.
Yuzo Koshiro is one of the best living video game composers and he has not only rearranged the original soundtrack but also added new tracks as well as extending a few of the originals.
In the settings there’s options for Background Music (Renaissance or Classic), Background Music and Sound Effects Volume Sliders, Message Speed, Brightness, Screen Mode, Resolution, Frame Rate, V-sync, Language (English, French, German, Chinese) and Key Configuration (Controller, Keyboard and mouse).
The game runs well on Steam Deck with the exception of one platforming stage where there's a particle effect that slows things down a ton.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $11.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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