Beyond the novelty of its highly unique and striking voodoo aesthetic and great generally very atmospheric and dark music lies a tedious, disorienting and repetitive collectathon in a needlessly labyrinthine world that offers no map system beyond a global schematic map and tries to incorporate ability gating from metroidvanias without understanding how to make that interesting or satisfying.

Player progress is roadblocked time and time again and the lack of a movement ability and high enemy health exacerbate backtracking tedium beyond reason as you wander around with nothing but your memory to guide you through hard to memorize 3D environments that start out alien and haunting but quickly transition to dull mechanical familiarity.

For the time certainly innovative in what it sets out to do and i certainly wish we had more games featuring unique cultures such as this, but this one in particular isn't worth actually finishing, this one is better remembered and progressed upon.

I absolutely loved this game when I played it on N64, now it's remastered on PC and even better! And NOW with the updates the game is better yet again! Such a classic game, with a mixture of platforming, action, horror, RPG elements and skill mastery. A fantastic 40-60 hour playthrough.

I give it a solid 7/10.
This game rules in the first half, the game becomes kind of rough in the latter half if you aren't used to collect-a-thon style games and I found myself going back and forth between certain areas a lot. Mostly because I was avoiding a certain area, the playrooms.
There are a few sounds in this game that serve as a sort of brown note and make my stomach churn, both of which are in said playrooms and it's accompanied by a pretty repetitive music track that was creepy at first but actually intolerable on repeat visits. It's a track with a music box as the lead, squeaking of a toy, children crying, and a drilling sound/squealing/flesh noises. It's certainly a choice to have it loop like it does while you are trying to figure out where you are supposed to go next.
Otherwise, the game does overstay it's welcome a bit by hour 15, the charm kinda wears off then but it is still an excellent game from 1999 and the remaster only serves to boost what charm it does have. It should be noted I played with all remaster visual effects off, textures set to classic, water set to dreamcast, so I cannot comment on those because I wanted a classic experience with good camera controls.
I recommend it but don't be ashamed if you turn the music off after the first few visits to an area. It gets tiresome.

Loved playing threw this remaster, the double side jump is OP as always. As soon as you have 100 trade them in!!!!