A great remake that takes a solid game and boosts it tenfold. I had a fun time, I laughed, I cried, I got mad, I got scared, and being an avid fan of the original, it was fun seeing what was changed.
This sounds positive but I only gave it 3 stars, the equivalent to a 60%, and why is that?
The difficulty spikes.
Anyone who knows me knows that I always play on the normal, middle ground difficulty, and ONLY change it if its literally near-impossible for me to continue otherwise. At least 5 times I contemplated switching to assisted mode because of this game. Unlike the original, where difficulty scaled with progress of the game, the remake has an absurd amount of difficulty spikes which when added to a lack of invincibility and swarm of enemies, it is sometimes very VERY easy to get sandwiched, or surprised, or smacked three times, during which you can't access your inventory to heal.
You were so, so close REmake, so, so close.