If you squint, this looks like garbage. Like a garbage heap filled with candy wrappers and chewed gum. The sacrifices to make this more playable than the original are too great.

Space Channel 5 is neigh incomprehensible even with voice acting and the full experience. Reducing all spoken dialog to overlapping color-coded captions in the cheapest manner possible, playing atop sprites made of screenshots from a real game, is surreal.

There is some effort here, but its not worth it. The soundtrack still brims with life. The guitarist you steal from Pudding still adds a bass line to the score. Overall, an absolute travesty.