Review: MediEvil (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S. 

At this point, I feel like a broken record. Across the podcast, social media, and reviews such as the one I wrote of Link's Awakening on the Nintendo Switch, I've found myself consistently railing against what companies have been doing with remakes. Disney's cinema efforts are the most egregious, but more and more we're seeing remakes of games that don't do much more than modernise the visual elements, and while the underlying gameplay might still be very fine indeed, the existence of these projects comes across as a rather cynical argument that the original work has lost its value. It hasn't, of course. Art doesn't work like that, but the commercial side of the entertainment industries are certainly pushing that angle. MediEvil is the latest victim.

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