A great day one Switch game. I used to play this a lot with my niece and nephew. Later, my niece came to like it a lot. A very charming idea.

The jokes making fun of retro game mechanics are funny, and even my nephew laughed at them. But eventually, the retro gameplay and lack of particularly funny jokes in the late game began to wear on me. I finished it, but I do wish if nothing else the game would move a bit faster.

A neat idea, but I really wanted to like this game more. I do appreciate the effort that went into making everything make sense no matter what changes you make to the story.

While this game does add a new gameplay mechanic with the ability to do special attacks that lose life and then regain the lost life by attacking normally - or lose it permanently by getting hit - overall it's basically just retro gameplay without any other real improvements. It plays like the old games. To me, that's not a good thing, even though I liked the old games back then. Retro gameplay does not age well, imo.

A nice little pick up and put down game. Easy to beat levels, but hard to get good combos and great ranks. Every enemy attack is telegraphed, so it becomes about reading the room and reacting.

My issue with the remake is that it lowered the difficulty compared to the original. I felt the original was balanced quite well, but with the remake, I rarely felt like I was in any danger of losing a fight. A shame, because I otherwise enjoyed the game.

I loved the world more than the gameplay, but I really loved the world. Spent a couple hundred hours in it. Then Zelda: Breath of the Wild came along, giving me a world and gameplay alike I both loved.