The Remastered Remake of the Re-release

[Jassassino]

I'm perfectly okay with remakes if it results in a really fun game that I actually have incentive to come back to. So far, the remakes that I've been most into have been home runs.

I absolutely adore RE4Make, Silent Hill 2Make, and really liked RE2Make as well. I loved RE4R and SH2R because the former built on what was already a masterpiece and found a way to both modernize and improve upon it while simultaneously keeping all of its good ideas and building on stuff that could afford to be ironed out. It's the kind of remake that's both faithful yet so unique in its scenarios that it's almost like a brand new game. There is so much about RE4Make that's completely unique from the source material, ensuring that it doesn't completely replace it, giving us two very unique versions of the same masterpiece.

Similarly, SH2R is an example of respecting the original source material but not being a slave to it either. BT knew they couldn't get away with fixed cameras so they countered it by

With SH2R, the way that the narrative is set in SH2 to begin with anyway, it can easily be seen as more than a remake - somewhat a second version of the same story, considering...

Spoiler:

James is heavily implied to have been in a perpetual loop, over and over, with every ending and route of the original SH2 being totally canon to SH2R through the memories you unlock and revisited places - understanding that all of this has continued on and on until the 'true'/good ending of SH2R adds a really great layer to the original IMO

I do wonder where this will stop with just straight-up remakes, though - it is slightly concerning, and suggests that we're deeply stagnating in creativity and creative freedoms provided to classic directors, studios, creators and franchises thanks somewhat to a neverending war between art and profit in the games industry. The remake in that way is somewhat a lowest common denominator cash-grab oftentimes - of course there are outliers like Oblivion and SH2R or RE2:Remake (which I got obsessed with over and over), but, on the other hand, even though I enjoyed it, did we really need Spyro: Reignited Trilogy if it wasn't going to lead to Spyro: 4 just because it made X amount of millions instead of Y amount of millions? I would've happily just taken a port of the original games in a neat package with cut content restored instead.