The more I play and the more I think on it, the harder it becomes to justify giving this game anything less than a perfect score. It takes me back to a different age, when games seemed endless, when I could play them again and again and keep finding new secrets, when they had all these crazy bonuses and different side modes to discover and unlock, when I could toy around and experiment with their mechanics and find all the different cheese tactics. Not to mention it’s ambience, it’s art design, the sound effects, music ques, that safe room theme, despite not playing it before logging it here, I find it evokes a lot of nostalgia in me. I definitely still think there’s hiccups, parts that I dread to play through again, and yet I’m always motivated to power through them. Every time I pick this game up, hours go by. They really captured lightning in a bottle with this one.