Listen, it was never THAT good, it's pretty nice, but it shouldn't be put on the pedestal people put it on. Aside from the bad camera, which is absolutely reasonable thinking of the games release, which makes me repeat my first to takes, it is very fun and gave the base for the next generation of jump and runs, but that was it imo. With out the speedrunning community, the game would be long dead.
It aged like milk, but cheese is not something you hate, so there's that. The game can't be really criticized, because all flaws can be refuted by the age of the game. However, when you ignore release, it is not that masterpiece people make it out to be.