Correction: this is a sequel to the 32X game, not a remake.
The game's pretty cool but there's two aspects of it that completely clash with one another: first, the game has no saves, so you have to beat it all in one sitting (there is a "save" option when you beat a level, but this appears to only save a replay of your game up to that point, since replays were a popular feature in space sims for some reason). This is already stretching things because it's like 2 hours long, but whatever, it's not a big deal. You'd think that the game having no saves would mean the game's got an arcade style, right? Maybe, but that doesn't make a lot of sense when there are constant unskippable cutscenes in the middle of missions, some of which can last up to 2 damn minutes. Imagine trying to replay the game to get to the point where you stopped last time and having to sit through a collective 10 minutes of comedy routines from the characters with no option to skip them.
It just displays a real lack of common sense from the developers; they got a bunch of professional voice actors (including the guy who played Data in the Japanese dub of Star Trek TNG), so they wanted to have cutscenes to include them and have banter between the characters, but they didn't bother to create an easy way for those scenes to be skipped since they're all in-engine and take place in the levels themselves and it might have been hard to program a way to skip them, so they just said "fuck it, our cutscenes are so great that nobody will wanna skip them anyway!". If you really HAVE to have unskippable cutscenes, then at least give a way to save your damn progress in the game. I sit down to try and complete the whole game, but by the third level I'm already so demotivated from having to sit through the same fucking cutscenes I already watched 5 times.
