Substantially worse version of a masterpiece. The 30 FPS feels awful, it looks uglier across the board, and the difficulty got a giant nerf (especially on Master Mode) which is an incredibly misguided decision given that the challenge of Master Mode is what made it so satisfying in the first place. This port also misses the opportunity to fix one of the few flaws in the original game, which is the extremely long unskippable intros on some stages.

Some of these changes were presumably inevitable given the hardware and I imagine the easier patterns and more lenient timing were to compensate for the smaller screen size but it's still just a much worse version overall. The new multiplayer stages are nice but they're not worth compromising everything else.

Reviewed on Oct 25, 2020


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