i don't like it as much as the other games in the series but it's still worth a 4/5. as the first game it has to live up to some later expectations and it does that job well for the most part. there's a bit of an overreliance on visual cues and of course you aren't getting quite as much content as the other games but it's still a great ride (and even better on the original hardware, as i was lucky enough to find out)