This is an absolutely amazing port of what is otherwise a pretty mediocre game. I enjoyed how each area is split up into their own environments in which to solve puzzles, battle enemies, meet npcs etc. But the game frequently feels like it has no idea how to balence them and compensates by bombarding you with enemies and item grinding. The backgrounds are also especially frustrating. While lavishly detailed and lovingly painted I often found myself struggling to find what I could interact with and what I couldn't.

For this playthrough I went with the remastered mode and controls felt fairly ok if held back a little by some wonky collision detection. Shockingly I loved all the back and forth you do in this game. The art is well detailed and very pretty at times, while the music is suprisingly very solid if maybe not the most memorable. The highlight though is of course the game's corny cutscenes, easily the highlight of both this and the Wand of Gamelon. Listen I could sit here and complain about the animation quality, the writing, the outragious designs so on and so forth but like, they're so well known and infamous I couldn't help but receit all the lines alongside the cast. Love em or hate em they add a ton of charm and really go a long way in making this game something special.

I want to say I enjoyed my time with this more but sadly for how much fun I did have occasionally, the rest of the time mostly had me frustrated and wanting to move onto something else. A short, memorable jog for fans by a fan but for everyone else maybe just watch Vinny play this on YouTube.