Playing this on PS1 is probably my earliest memory with gaming. I was terrible at games as a kid though, so I didn’t beat the game until I downloaded it on PS3 years later. As I grew up, I lost interest in platformers, so a lot of my enjoyment of this game is nostalgia. Still, it’s not hard to see why this series is respected. This entry in particular has a lot of fun level variety and good boss fights. The difficulty increases fairly over the course of the game, and there’s even unlockables and challenges to add replay value. I’ll always have the medieval theme stuck in my head but I remember the whole soundtrack was good too. Since I probably won’t get into the genre again, I’m glad I can say that I experienced this classic.