I'm not sure if it's something I've just overlooked for years in the original but I do find the AI to be a little off in places in comparison to the original. I can't say I've noticed a huge change in difficulty between the original and the remaster, but that's coming from someone who prefers to play on normal difficulty and occasionally drops it down to easy when I don't feel like dealing with respawning helicopters and cruisers. The N64 is a completely different engine but will test that as well. I need to try the Saturn version soon which I presume will be the same from what I remember. The slowness that I think people think is the loading of the level and cutscenes.

The game will run really fast, and you can get overwhelmed really quickly. If there are not a ton of animations or effects happening. It is slowish in game play but you cannot slow it down further to really help you when you need to input vast amounts of commands. I remembered it being slow, but the PS version has only one speed. I actually had a different experience replaying it the other day. I think I may be forced to lower it later in the game. But considering how plentiful the resources are normal speed is quite fun.

I tried moderate speed, and it feels more familiar.

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