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My gosh, I’ve loved this series since it was known as Trace Memory on the DS, and I modded my Wii explicitly so I could play the EU exclusive sequel.

So far, I’ve played to the opening bits of R.

Calling this game a remake, honestly, it doesn’t do it any justice.

The first game has been remade from the ground up.

As in, the mansion that is the game’s setting has been entirely redone with a new layout. It feels more like an actual mansion now, as opposed to something akin to an RPG dungeon where you keep exploring deeper and deeper.

The puzzles have also been redone from scratch. Honestly, this was probably very necessary as CiNG liked to incorporate hardware features into their puzzles. In the DS there was one puzzle where you had to look at the reflection on one screen onto the other… obviously that’s impossible on the Switch.

Actually, on that note, I didn’t recognize hardly any puzzles from the original game.

TBH… the Trace Memory bits feel like an entirely different game, that only used the same characters and, broadly, the same plot.

This is not a complaint, (well, aside from not being able to use the DS hardware creatively this time around), It’s very much a more polished experience this time around.