overbrightened the visuals, and has tacky gradient lighting in spots. the original ps2 version has a great muted-yet-colorful look going on with all of its soft mid-tones. i also hate the weird revisionist-history mascotified redesign of the prince that has bled over to merch. its a shame that this is the only rerelease of this game--and i'm surprised no one has done a "original game restoration mod" in the same way that sonic adventure 1 and 2 have