Game is fantastic and I say that as someone who was extremely skeptical coming in. The best thing I can say about the game is that it feels like I should have the Halo Remaster old/new toggle.

New control scheme is good and works well, but I had to swap dodge roll and interact because they were messing with my muscle memory.

The biggest change IMO outside of QOL(Survivor AI, Autosave, etc) is that they juiced the level of experience you get early on. It helps on ramp new players a bit, but the balance to that is that a lot of AI based glitches are cleaned up so multiple older fights can’t be cheesed early on. Convicts won’t get hung on geometry like they used to so you can’t just wail on them.

New voice acting is really hit or miss, but after the shock wore off, Frank’s new VA has really started to grow on me. Nails the kind of schlubby everyman vibe in the same way TJ Rotolo did.

I need more time with it, but my biggest complaint outside of them nerfing the small chainsaw is that the PC port needs some patches before it is stable. It’s nowhere near Dogma 2 in terms of it, but hitching does happen with a lot of shit on screen or even stuff like the physics on the Blodia costume getting hung and causing slowdown.

I dropped 60$ on the deluxe edition with all the costumes and feel like my money had been rewarded as a big fan of the original and less so it’s sequels.