A classic title, I’m still impressed by its presentation today so I can’t imagine how mindblowing it was in 1998. But the presentation isn’t all that’s still impressive, the game is still fun as ever. The controls are different from what we’re used to today but they work for what the game is going for. The areas are well designed and a joy to sneak around in, you’re well rewarded with new items if you bother to go everywhere your current keycard will take you.

The bosses are a highlight, each employing unique mechanics and forcing you to use all those weapons that are too loud to use elsewhere.

The only parts of the game that felt terribly dated are the two backtracking segments, two pace killers in an otherwise relatively snappy game.

9/10

Extremely fun game, controls very well and has a nice variety of content. It’s charmingly of its time, couldn’t be made today as it’s basically a police brutality simulator with some questionable presentations of minorities.

Brutally difficult as it goes on, don’t think I would’ve finished it without the rewind feature on PS5.

7/10

Lovely little game, a brisk 4 hour journey of mecha goodness. Controls extremely well and you get a variety of fun to use sub-weapons and even different mech forms at the end. Good variety of missions too, wish there were more enemy types tho. Plenty of bosses at least, tho you fight one 3 times (with a different strategy each time).

The story is kinda whatever, the part of the cutscenes that I enjoyed the most was the extremely cheesy early-2000’s dub. Haven’t heard a voice actor have to speak very quickly to keep up with the Japanese speech pace in a long time, very nostalgic. The graphics are great, especially in this remaster, and the mech designs are awesome (outside of the COCKpits, which is certainly. A choice.)

I liked the final bosses a lot but disliked how they took away all your sub-weapons, those things are half the fun of the game imo.

8/10