The modern day version of Virtua Fighter Remix is a lengthy apology tweet and two-to-three years of patches. In 1995, however, Remix released a year shy of the original launch edition of the game, given for free to Saturn owners as a big "we're sorry" for the base game's dire state. As such, copies of Remix are incredibly common, and if you're looking for a cheap and noteworthy Saturn game to add to your collection, it's an easy pick-up. I got mine bundled with Fighter's Megamix when I bought my Saturn off Ebay, and those are great games to start your library with, especially considering the console's strength as a "fighting game system."

However, Remix really only serves that purpose as an introduction or a curiosity. Being the early 3D fighter, it suffers from a lot of issues emblematic of the genre at that point in time, namely how chunky it is, and how it lacks the same level of depth and smoothness as its 2D fighting contemporaries. An important game and one that helped advanced the genre as a whole, for sure, but as rough around the edges as you'd expect. I mean, it's also no Battle Arena Toshinden Remix, but I see little reason to commit more time than necessary to glean what it accomplished and what its legacy is. By my estimation, that's roughly two hours on a Saturday morning, and back to the shelf it goes.

Virtua Fighter's Saturn port was rather embarrassing. Despite being a pack-in game for the system, it was an awful show of it's capabilities, graphically faring worse than it's arcade Model 1 counterpart. Unfortunate for a system expected to bring Model 2 games like Daytona USA to home consoles. Sega had to think of a solution, and they did indeed come up with one. A little over half a year later they released Virtua Fighter Remix, which replaced Virtua Fighter as the Saturn's pack-in game.
So how does Remix compare to it's predecessor? It's the same game with prettier graphics. Instead of flat shaded polygons, everything is textured now, and the game no longer suffers from the many graphical glitches that plagued the first game. Other than that it's good old Virtua Fighter. If you're wondering whether you should pick up this or the original, go with Remix. Both games play the same, but Remix's graphical changes gives the game new life and leaves you with less eye strain.