i tried (and failed) to clear it in one sitting with a jogcon a few years back and i don't think my wrist has ever recovered. yeah, it looks, sounds and plays nice (to be a cop-out, it's smooth and refined), easily the best of the PS1 ridge racers despite not having any grossly distorted 909 kicks in the soundtrack (aya and megaten moved on to arika to make the best soundtracks in any tetris game, for the best tetris games).

but honestly ridge racer v is the better game mechanically (and RRV has grossly distorted 909 kicks in the soundtrack)

This Castlevania III clone suffers from the chief sin of modern remakes – it makes obvious what its inspiration left to player imagination and discovery (the most egregious example being the pointing skeletons that telegraph the diverging routes). Yes it's tight, it's polished, and it's lean, yet the design is so heavy handed that there's no room to breath. 8-bit titles, intentionally or not, featured “unnecessary” stretches of space that let the experience grow beyond the borders of the television. But with Bloodstained, what you see is what you get – for better and worse.