 Steam Drunk Maybe the strangest thing about having a YouTube channel about a video game console that was first released nearly 30 years ago Is that there's rarely any news about it so to speak. Sure There's an occasional homebrew game here and there and there's rom hacks and English patches and stuff like that But it's not really something you follow day-to-day like how one would follow modern gaming That's what makes the past several months so weird all of a sudden there's the SNES classic Chrono trigger is being ported to steam a secret of mana remake is released and wild guns of all things gets a remake for PC PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo switch now without going on too much of a rant the Chrono trigger port and secret of mana remake Weren't exactly well received I'll just say they leave a lot to be desired and leave it at that for now But wild guns reloaded demonstrates the right way to do a retro game remake It keeps the graphics the same and just expands the viewpoint to 16 9 It adds new levels that are true to the original game and it throws in some more bells and whistles like two new characters and four player Compatibility I should also mention that the music is redone as well But personally I wish they had just kept the original soundtrack, but what's there is perfectly fine in case you're new to wild guns It's easily the best gallery shooter on the Super Nintendo and one of the most fun multiplayer games on the system The controls are a little tricky at first since you use the d-pad to both move your character and aim your fire But with a little practice you can get the hang of it Just remember to hold the fire button down to aim and let go to dodge enemy fire While also pressing the jump button to roll and get the hell out of the way of some of this carnage And that brings me to the next thing that sets wild guns apart the visuals not just the explosions and craziness that makes your screen Look like it's gonna blow apart, but the Wild West meets steampunk motif. I mean look at some of these bosses just fantastic Okay, so you can get that from the original game too But reloaded offers extra levels extra enemies extra bosses and two extra playable characters in addition to Clint and Annie Who will play pretty similarly there's also bullet an adorable dog with a robot companion and Doris who only chucks grenades In her case when you hold the button down She can throw several grenades at once it kind of reminds me of the rocket launcher in the Unreal Tournament series The primary difference in the gameplay between the original and reloaded is the amount of screen real estate in the original version The screen scrolled from left to right and obviously any enemies off-screen weren't going to shoot at you It still scrolls in this version, but since the proportions are kept the same There's so much more going on and enemies from off-screen can still shoot at you That means there's a lot more coming at you a lot more to dodge and a lot more to shoot at and that much more space to move Your crosshair too because of that this game is really hard much tougher than the original But even if you kind of suck at gallery shooters like this, that's where bullet the dog comes in He's meant to be kind of an introductory character because his range of fire is huge You don't have to be pinpoint accurate to get rid of an enemy just be in the general vicinity And that makes it much easier to progress Like I mentioned earlier this game is four player compatible, but there are two caveats to go with that One is that this is old-school couch multiplayer not online multiplayer at least not yet This does not bother me personally I could take or leave online multiplayer with a game like this But I can see how that would be kind of a bummer Second is that multiplayer shares lives between everyone as you can see in the upper left That kind of sucks, but despite that Wild Guns Reloaded is such a great time It's $30 on PS4 and Switch which is a little pricey for a game like this if you ask me But it's $20 on Steam that's not so bad If you liked the original Wild Guns for Super Nintendo which is already great on its own You will love Wild Guns Reloaded That sumay should really be commended here because they absolutely got it right This should be the blueprint for retro game revivals moving forward