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With a little bit of patience, you will experience greatness.

This is a part platformer, part puzzle game, where you often have to figure out what to do in order to progress, rather than just focusing on how to jump precisely. More or less a faithful remake of the original, from what I could gather by comparing let's plays.
Original is a piece of gaming history. I've always heard about it as a kid, but I was too little to play it when it was new. And now, for the first time, I've played it's reimagination, more than 25 years after the original release. Time sure flies. But quality remains forever. The game is charming and something different, standing out even among it's peers, because it's honestly hard to even compare it to anything. Another World perhaps? If you are old enough to even know that name.
There are few problems with the introduction of new players - and I am confident that if they changed this from the original, there would be a lot more satisfied customers. There are some issues with controls, tutorials and how the game behaves on the first start. The original obviously had a physical manual, but we don't really go and read booklets when we play games anymore, do we? So you rely on in-game onboarding to get you accustomed with the game, and I think this is the part, where the game could've deviated a bit more from the original.
At first, you will feel clumsy and curse the design. But after few hours, the reflexes will kick in and you will start feeling a lot more confident. The game is very forgiving, thankfully providing the option to quick save for those of us that don't have the patience to try that particularly difficult moment 50 times in a row. There are plenty of frustrating bits later in the game, where the challenge lays in figuring out what on earth the game wants from you in order to progress, because it isn't always intuitive - fortunately, very rarely had go and look up a solution.
I've had no technical issues with my Xbox controller, it just works, but I've experienced a handful of bugs - some of them seemingly caused by me running the game above 60 FPS. Limiting it is a must, if you want to get through some of the traps later in the game and generally want to have a smoother experience.
Generally, the game is great and for the price you can get it nowadays, I think it's a steal. It takes a bit to get used to, but unless you absolutely cannot stand platformers, or you are dead inside and can't stand anything creative, you should absolutely give this one a try.
Good, truly unique experience, but hard sunovabitch. Yeah, this game can be difficult, especially if you want to save all the Mudokons, but it is special enough for you to try, as far as I am concerned (with a handy walkthrough of course, because I would never find some of those sneaky locations otherwise).