As it was suggested, it seems to have been a price error. These things happen, but it also comes off like a lack of care for THPS. I’m probably just overthinking.

That was a Bobert Kodick decision to turn VV into Blizzard Albany.

Okay, maybe I need this music more than I thought I would have today.

Probably. I guess I found it believable since 3+4 tends to go on sale once or twice a month.

Worth it for 1+2 if you somehow don’t have that one by now, but considering that 3+4 just released this July, not even half a year ago, this is kind of a big oof.

I guess I respect the attempt; Climax really put a ton of effort into making the game look and feel like SH, and visually, it really nails the look of the town and the Otherworld. It's genuinely really impressive. I just wish it played better as a video game.

I'm not going to go into a ton of detail about my gripes, but it really breaks apart the one SH game from this era that, more or less, understood the gameplay identity of the series the most. With tweaking to make it play more in line with 2 or 3, it could have been pretty solid!

Enemies seem super aggressive at first, but learning to navigate without the flashlight means that enemies only detect you if you literally run into them, even while running around at full speed. Even then, they lose you quickly in the darkness. It trivializes most of the game.

The game seems quite difficult at first, and the streets during daylight can still be a bit tricky (Carrions can go straight to hell), but the game becomes insanely easy when you learn that turning off the flashlight makes you completely invisible to enemies, even while running!

The melee weapon system is a total joke, weapons break but there's tons, way more than necessary, and carrying stuff like portable TVs and filing cabinets is somehow more silly than katanas and maces. The shotgun and assault rifle makes enemies and bosses super trivial.

The camera can be a pig, it can only be recentered with L1 and can get stuck. The controls on PS2 are the same as PSP, so L2/R2 and the right stick are unused when they could have been here. I want tank controls as an option, especially with the camera cuts & angles here.

The 4K-CE exists, but with much more limited deinterlacing and S-Video support (paramount for N64), so no thanks.

Either way, N64 is going to look like N64 unless you just emulate. No getting around that right now. I'd rather have a better scaler for multiple platforms.

Not gonna lie, I'd much rather have a RetroTink 4K at this point, but the 1200 Canadian dollarydoos that it costs means that it's something I'd really have to take some time to save up for. Especially for deinterlacing the PS2, and how much I love the 5X, it should be worth it.