MediEvil

All in all, it's a welcome surprise.

Ultimately, the MediEvil PS4 remake stays true to the original game while being a more enjoyable experience overall. There were still some ways that the developers could have made the MediEvil PS4 remake even better, but what's here is still a great game and will leave fans hungry for more. Here's hoping that Sir Dan comes back from the dead again sooner rather than later, whether that be through a MediEvil 2 remake or better yet, a brand new entry in the series.

There’s something really special about MediEvil getting a well-deserved remake beyond the visual and audio glow-up. It provides the title with a chance to break out of the confines of relative obscurity to reach a wider audience. MediEvil deserves all of this and more with its fantastic tone, entertaining characters and story, excellent level design, and stellar pacing, even if a few issues hold it back. If you haven’t played it before you’d be doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a go, and if you have played it before, rejoice in Fortesque’s skeletal embrace.

For better or worse the ludicrously difficult, but way ahead of its time MediEvil has been remade from the ground up. This is one of the great PS1 classics, and the reason for that, and the reason it has endured all these years, is its excellent Halloweeny presentation. Imagine Tim Burton designing a Halloween-themed videogame, with an added emphasis on the hilarious, and you’ve got a game people will want to like. Everything, from our hero’s toothy, jawless face, to his goofy, floppy walk just oozes with style and humor. But is this spooky flair enough to make a game great for modern players?...

An accomplished, excellent remake hampered only by some dated game design, MediEvil is a marvellously macabre medley of mayhem and mirth.

This faithful remake of a PlayStation classic is a fun trip down memory lane despite feeling a little dated.

Verdict: The philosophy of remaking MediEvil in 2019 without modernizing the platforming, boss fights, and save points ends up feeling like a project half finished. This tribute to an often-forgotten game and its memorable underdog protagonist is gorgeous and nostalgia-inducing remake, but it was mostly that nostalgia that made it endearing enough for me to replay a whole level for the third time because I was killed by a bug or an unfair boss battle. That kind of oversight makes sense in a remaster where you mostly expect updated textures, but in a remake it doesn’t go far enough to resurrect...

MediEvil is revived for our modern era, but we question if it should've been.

MediEvil has no online multiplayer component. It promises no DLC. There is no crafting system, no base building, and Sir Dan cannot spend points to earn new abilities from one of three skill trees. When the story is over, it is actually over. Although the original title got a sequel in 2000, the story doesn’t end on anything as gauche as a sequel hook. Sir Dan is not booted back out to the world map after defeating Zarok to clean up neglected side quests — there practically are no side quests. Every step and every swing of the sword brings Sir Daniel Fortesque measurably closer to saving the d...