CMGPUR

A 6.1? Seriously? I'm starting to think that there is a growing trend in this site to review-bomb anything that comes out without any valid reasoning. I get the new Battlefield and COD because both DICE and Activision clearly have proven again that they don't care about the consumers so long as people keep buying their lackluster games. You can see the irony on B2042 being one of Steam's worst reviewed games ever and still being in the top 10 games being played. I can also see mixed or bad reviews of mediocre remasters like the GTA trilogy but this remake is in my opinion, one textbook example of how to make a fantastic and faithful adaptation of a beloved classic. The game's characters are Chibi, something that really doesn't detract at all because it feels like a throwback to the classic top-down games that preceded it. The graphics look great and the performance is spot on. The game retains absolutely everything in terms of the story, the places, the characters, the music and expands on the post game content heavily. It features a massive underground map so that you can catch many older generation Pokémon and while it can be grindy at times in terms of catching specific legendaries, its still very addicting. The game wasn't hard at all though but it more than made for it on the Pokémon League. Sinnoh still has the hardest league and final champion of every mainline game so my Pokémon really had to sweat to win it. The game is honestly perfect and that's because they gave this remake project to ILCA, a company that actually cares and respect the originals. Game Freak has lost its touch heavily and cannot make good Pokémon games anymore. They should just stick to printing money like Rockstar, Activision, and EA.

An absolute disgrace and insult to us gamers that grew up with these iconic games. It's essentially Rockstar throwing a bone to us until they ever decide to release GTA 6. I finished the "definitive" editions of both GTA 3 and Vice City and man they were terrible. The only nice thing objectively would be that some surfaces like the floors, some tunnel walls, etc. do look very HD but the rest of the game looks very off-putting. The art style they chose for the characters looks very unnatural and cartoonish and look even worse than their ps2 counterparts since a lot of detail is lost in the transition. Sure the cars have a bit of a shine to them also but that doesn't really amount to much. The missions and the story remains the same but they tried to modernize it aka put GTA 5 interface (weapon and radio wheels) and apparent shooting but it feels very rough and clunky. The PS5 versions are a joke since both the fidelity and the performance options looked the same to me but the former has an embarrassing 30fps while the latter tries to target 60 frames but spikes a lot under the 40s when there are a lot of things happening. I played SA until the the last set of Las Venturas missions and just couldn't move on and left it there. The three games crashed dozens of times especially since both Vice City and San Andreas crashed in certain missions if you don't put the game on performance mode. Besides some HD environmental graphics the game features an auto-saving system that comes in handy but actually can be detrimental. In both VC and SA the character would sometimes just gets stuck randomly in the middle of a mission and freeze. I had to input cheats to allow the character to get unstuck. To be honest, I was kind of hoping this definitive editions would at least be consistent but they are very mediocre. These remasters are even worse than the subpar remasters of Arkham Collection and Dishonored 1. Even if they do decide to patch these games, I am not planning to ever play them again.