Disclaimer: I'm reviewing this from the point of view of a Linux user. Not sure if people on Windows are having to jump through similarly ridiculous hoops to get the game running or not, although I stumbled upon some Windows users with controller issues as well during my research.

First of all, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the game itself. It looks OK, seems to play OK, there's really not much one can say about the game other than it is a platformer and a remake of a classic. Does it live up to the hype? Does it play well? Is it balanced? Are the controls tight and responsive? I wouldn't know; of my 50 ingame minutes, I spent 10 minutes testing, and the other 40 struggling with the controller setup.

And that brings us to the reason I'm giving this a negative review: I don't care how good your game is, a platformer should not expect me to set up two screens worth of action bindings with confusing labels before it allows me to play. Apparently, if you use a supported controller, such as the XBox 360 controller, this problem shouldn't present itself since it gets detected automatically. I say apparently, because I use exactly that, and I can not select the XBox 360 control scheme in the dropdown. Only the generic one with a blank configuration.

The issue has been reported over a year ago, and rather than fixing it, the devs have released incomplete and confusing instructions on how to work around this. Instructions which became obsolete within 6 months of posting, yet the posts are still not updated and they don't even respond when you ask for clarification. See http://gtm.you1.cn/app/314660/discussions/0/594820473983869155/ and its linked forum posts for more info.

In the end, it took a fellow gamer with way more patience than me to set up their controller and post their config before I could actually enjoy the game. For those on Linux who are having trouble with their configs (and for future self), this is the post that helped me set up my controller: https://gtm.you1.cn/app/314660/discussions/2/485623406953212192/

Disclaimer: I'm reviewing this from the point of view of a Linux user. Not sure if people on Windows are having to jump through similarly ridiculous hoops to get the game running or not, although I stumbled upon some Windows users with controller issues as well during my research. First of all, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the game itself. It looks OK, seems to play OK, there's really not much one can say about the game other than it is a platformer and a remake of a classic. Does it live up to the hype? Does it play well? Is it balanced? Are the controls tight and responsive? I wouldn't know; of my 50 ingame minutes, I spent 10 minutes testing, and the other 40 struggling with the controller setup. And that brings us to the reason I'm giving this a negative review: I don't care how good your game is, a platformer should not expect me to set up two screens worth of action bindings with confusing labels before it allows me to play. Apparently, if you use a supported controller, such as the XBox 360 controller, this problem shouldn't present itself since it gets detected automatically. I say apparently, because I use exactly that, and I can not select the XBox 360 control scheme in the dropdown. Only the generic one with a blank configuration. The issue has been reported over a year ago, and rather than fixing it, the devs have released incomplete and confusing instructions on how to work around this. Instructions which became obsolete within 6 months of posting, yet the posts are still not updated and they don't even respond when you ask for clarification. See http://gtm.you1.cn/app/314660/discussions/0/594820473983869155/ and its linked forum posts for more info. In the end, it took a fellow gamer with way more patience than me to set up their controller and post their config before I could actually enjoy the game. For those on Linux who are having trouble with their configs (and for future self), this is the post that helped me set up my controller: https://gtm.you1.cn/app/314660/discussions/2/485623406953212192/