The faithful gameplay loop remains largely unchanged, however – perhaps a trifle slower, but you’ll still find yourself scattering leaves and fireballs, meandering in and out of a cacophony of chaos, simply trying to keep your rapidly depleting hearts from reaching zero. Familiar areas return, like the infamous airship stage, but they’re remixed and restructured other sections are all-new.
It’s a brave move to steer such a beloved classic in a largely new direction, but it ultimately keeps you on the edge of your toes. Despite first appearances, those opening moments – familiar stone steps and Shinto shrines – make way to what is effectively a reimagining of its 30-year-old forebear an entirely new game, which just happens to start the same. What if 1992’s cult Super Nintendo shooter Pocky & Rocky had been re-released for Sony’s more powerful PS1 console? That’s a little how Pocky & Rocky Reshrined feels at first blush: cute, colourful, and unmistakably retro, yes – but tapping new, previously unavailable power reserves to add Metal Slug-esque chunkiness to its overactive sprites.
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