I don't think there is. Demand for a new BK game, that is.
When charm is an integral part of your game, you have to understand that a lot of it came from the restrictions of the time. These days, there's really no restrictions, not in terms of the size of the game/world or how good it can look, at least.
People at the time were just happy that it was colourful and 3D, and the clunky/chunky look was endearing. Now though? What are you going to do? Cover everything in realistic details when the world/levels barely resemble reality at all? Make it look like the old games and leave gamers wondering in the back of their minds, if they've been led on by their nostalgia into buying a half-assed game from a lazy dev?
Add full voice acting and risk gamers finding it jarring and inauthentic? Go back to “WA-WAWA-WAWA-WA” and face the problem from the last paragraph?
Say what you will about Nintendo, but they're keeping an entire genre (3D platformer) alive, with their insane amount of creativity and polish, because they know that if anyone wants a 3D platformer now, they have to come to them. They've cornered that market via unflinchingly high standards.
Unless the BK dev has balls of steel, a great team, and a massive budget, I wouldn't recommend even trying.
I recently watched The Kid Detective, a 2020 film directed by Evan Morgan. And the film is quite squarely about a murder mystery, but then at the end it's shown briefly that the main character isn't just moderately bored and lonely. He's suffocating in a crushing emptiness and despair, and understandably so. Then like 5 seconds later it cuts to credits and the film is over. Some seriously unaddressed trauma right there. It was very upsetting, especially given how much I empathised with him, and that's the taste that's left with you after it's over.
I'm getting a very bad feeling from this bundle. KONAMI by itself is cause enough for concern, but couple that with releasing three beloved games at the same time, and the complete lack of keyboard and mouse support even though this is the second PC release for 2 of the 3 games, and it's all making me nervous.
I do not think this is going to be a smooth release.
Well, at least it's the best one. The almost impressively boring Assassin's Creed III (2012) got a remaster in 2019, and that one just confused me. There was almost no improvement whatsoever on PC at least. Black Flag is 10yo now. If they actually bother to improve it I may actually go back to the series for a brief stint. As it is, I gave up half-way through Syndicate. And even Syndicateis like an orgasm of fireworks compared to Valhalla.
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