This was fantastic. I've never played the original (I actually found out it never even released here until the virtual console releases).
I have only have a few very small issues with it, the first being less of an issue with this game specifically but more an issue with the genre, and that's the lack of enemy HP bars, it's not a big deal but it's something where I genuinely don't understand why people would not want them.
The second is probably just a holdover from the original that they just didn't change and that's in the sunken ship there's a door that needs a code to be entered to open, and there's 6 puzzle doors before it that give you hint scrolls like the first letter is P, and the word is found at the bottom of the sea, these are fine but when you get to the door you'd expect the scrolls to be in the pause menus somewhere so you can re-read them, but they just aren't, so I had to go back and read them again.
The last issue is in the final area there are these 6 doors, 2 combat, 2 platforming and 2 puzzle doors. The combat and platforming ones are fine but the 2 puzzle doors are awful, one being a god damn quiz that gave me Banjo-Kazooie flashbacks (I genuinely hate Rare for Grunty's Furnace Fun). Luckily you only need to do 4 doors, so you can skip the puzzle one's, but the game doesn't tell you which door is what, so you have to waste time failing the puzzle doors to get back to the door select area.
Other than those very small issues, I loved this.
I have only have a few very small issues with it, the first being less of an issue with this game specifically but more an issue with the genre, and that's the lack of enemy HP bars, it's not a big deal but it's something where I genuinely don't understand why people would not want them.
The second is probably just a holdover from the original that they just didn't change and that's in the sunken ship there's a door that needs a code to be entered to open, and there's 6 puzzle doors before it that give you hint scrolls like the first letter is P, and the word is found at the bottom of the sea, these are fine but when you get to the door you'd expect the scrolls to be in the pause menus somewhere so you can re-read them, but they just aren't, so I had to go back and read them again.
The last issue is in the final area there are these 6 doors, 2 combat, 2 platforming and 2 puzzle doors. The combat and platforming ones are fine but the 2 puzzle doors are awful, one being a god damn quiz that gave me Banjo-Kazooie flashbacks (I genuinely hate Rare for Grunty's Furnace Fun). Luckily you only need to do 4 doors, so you can skip the puzzle one's, but the game doesn't tell you which door is what, so you have to waste time failing the puzzle doors to get back to the door select area.
Other than those very small issues, I loved this.