the durian kingdom level has you invading a fortress full of ninja-themed monkeys with lightning swords, cannons, ones throwing little shurikens at you. i made it to the boss and got destroyed because of my awful dodge timing. game over, you have to do the whole 2 levels again to get back. my hands hurt. i physically pummeled my way back through that fortress and stood, dark clouds and hard rain, in front of this evil ass kong. i beat the absolute shit out of him

overbrightened the visuals, and has tacky gradient lighting in spots. the original ps2 version has a great muted-yet-colorful look going on with all of its soft mid-tones. i also hate the weird revisionist-history mascotified redesign of the prince that has bled over to merch. its a shame that this is the only rerelease of this game--and i'm surprised no one has done a "original game restoration mod" in the same way that sonic adventure 1 and 2 have

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