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While the game has had a general graphical overhaul that helps it look decent there are still some weird remnants of the original title’s age, the most prominent being the dead eyes and relatively simplistic animations when interacting with NPCs. Another area that hasn’t aged well at all, and that truly took me out of the game every time it came up is the voice acting. While you can usually evaluate in-game voice between great and laughable a significant number of characters instead veer off into the unexpected somewhat offensive Asian cultural caricature territory instead. I’m not sure what the rationale was behind this originally, or why this wasn’t addressed as it went through the remastering process, but it’s there and it can be a bit grating. I can understand the desire for characters to sound distinct from one another, and I applaud some of the efforts to emote to punch up the dialogue, but I got to the point where I simply left up the subtitles and turned the volume down to keep it from making me shake my head. Depending on what you’re looking for Legend of Kay Anniversary could be worthwhile. If you played it in its original form and have a touch of nostaglia for it or you’re simply a big fan of 3D platformers, even ones that haven’t necessarily mechanically ages well it has its strengths. That’s not to say there’s not some baggage along for the ride though, with the voice acting being a surprise out of left field. Be sure to check out some video of gameplay and read up further on it to be sure it’s a good fit for you.
Justin Nation, Score:Bad [5.5]