It's Gex, so I wasn't exactly expecting N. Sane/Reignited Trilogy levels of effort, but this was truly the bare minimum. Easy Steam achievements are an excuse for fans to re-play the games and finally beat Gex 1/Planet X if they haven't done so before, but there's nothing here to justify a $30 price tag or excite/expand the base enough for a sequel to be worth it. "I'm thinkin' I'm back?" I'd like that, but I sincerely doubt it.

This game has always been free, so I was convinced to try it back when it was still pretty new as my first visual novel. When it came to Steam I knew I'd have to play it again, and I was not disappointed. It still hits me the same way it did when I first played it over 10 years ago. If you're going to play the Steam version though, save often, because it can crash sometimes.

A cute game with some rather serious pacing issues, if you ask me. After each main story arc, you'll unlock some new scenes, and about half of them will be the same scenes from other characters' perspectives, which is fine—but you'll be required to play through those before moving on to the next part of the main story, leading to a lot of redundant dialogue immediately being required reading, and you'll have a basic idea of what happened in the other scenes because another NPC already talked about it and spoiled it for you. There were also 78 extra post-game scenes, most of which was more of the same, and didn't unlock in a chronologically coherent fashion either. It's not the kind of game that you'd want to binge-play on the weekend. Like any manga with a lot of filler, it's probably best enjoyed as a drip-feed.