As a childhood fan of the original, I both appreciate various aspects of this remake and find myself frustrated with others. They manage to stick very close to what is a pretty solid blueprint to begin with, and many deviations serve to flesh out and inject more humanity into the world and characters, but ultimately you're left with a questioning feeling of why they felt necessary to make this remake stick so closely to the original anyway when a full reboot that takes this concept and goes further would have been so much more interesting.

It's worth picking up and playing through on sale as a weekend binge game, but I would recommend most people just stick with the original, which is full of a charm all its own.