MediEvil

 PlayStation 4
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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 658 Ratings

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  1. Darkalien100
    Feb 2, 2020
    10
    This game is really good but a bit clunky they basically took old game and updated with new Graphics the gameplay is still the same as the original. I hope they remake the sequel.
  2. Zouelle
    Jan 15, 2020
    10
    A kick-ass remake of a PS1 classic!

    I really don't get the critics on this one and I'm glad to see that users are giving it better reviews. They're the ones who know their stuff! ;-) Anyone who fell in love with the original will be THRILLED by this modern take on the game. Not only is it still super fun to play but now it's also a beautiful modern game packed with cool surprises. I    A kick-ass remake of a PS1 classic!

    I really don't get the critics on this one and I'm glad to see that users are giving it better reviews. They're the ones who know their stuff! ;-) Anyone who fell in love with the original will be THRILLED by this modern take on the game. Not only is it still super fun to play but now it's also a beautiful modern game packed with cool surprises. I must say I was very pleased by the fact that they've used the original voices. How cool is that? The gameplay is very good, the modernized cartoony/goth-ish graphics are wonderful and the music is perfect. You can tell that they put a lot of efforts to modernize the game and it was sooo worth it.
    If you want to split hairs you could say that some (and only a few) of the secondary character designs could have been a little better, a little "cuter", but it really doesn't matter in the end because it truly is a great game overall. I'm giving it a 10 since I had so much fun revisiting it. Thanks for resurrecting sir Fortesque once again!    … Expand
  3. DoubleTripple
    Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It was a blessing to be able to return to Medievil and experience it again with beautiful visuals. New version captured the original charm perfectly and i had blast playing through every level. Suprisingly the gameplay was still a lot of fun and i enjoyed remembering how to solve some of the puzzles. Only one negative was at certain levels atrocious performance. I can only hope we will getIt was a blessing to be able to return to Medievil and experience it again with beautiful visuals. New version captured the original charm perfectly and i had blast playing through every level. Suprisingly the gameplay was still a lot of fun and i enjoyed remembering how to solve some of the puzzles. Only one negative was at certain levels atrocious performance. I can only hope we will get sequel remade as well.… Expand
  4. Wrath_4givnez
    Dec 31, 2019
    8
    Should have done this a long time ago, but oh well. A good way to end off the year.

    MediEvil. What a special game, and a curious decade for it to be around. A decade in which gaming has taken a sharp turn into "cinematic" approaches for better or worse, often times forgetting that games are also supposed to be fun, weird, and interesting. A decade when the best and the worst of modern    Should have done this a long time ago, but oh well. A good way to end off the year.

    MediEvil. What a special game, and a curious decade for it to be around. A decade in which gaming has taken a sharp turn into "cinematic" approaches for better or worse, often times forgetting that games are also supposed to be fun, weird, and interesting. A decade when the best and the worst of modern gaming has graced our consoles and PCs. A decade or many, MANY reboots, remakes, and re-releases. I'll be fair, MediEvil for the PS4 is pretty much a ground up remake, but it's retained many of the charms its original counterpart had... more or less.

    Gameplay is loosened up and fined tuned to be a bit more frantic, giving enemies with familliar patterns new tricks along with the old, and Dan himself a better combat personality that more suites his character (such as swinging a sword wildly like he has no idea what he's doing if you continuously hammer the attack button). Platforming is made MUCH easier so insta-death pitfalls aren't so frequent, and weapons themselves have been tweaked to have more pronounced strengths and weaknesses. A welcome change is the inclusion of weapon switching the Medievil 2 introduced, adding alot more playtime and decreasing menu time, and fixing a certain irritation that the original PS1 games had for a very specific weapons. The camera is alright. A bit better from the original.

    Visuals are... jaw dropping (lol). While it lost a little bit of its angular, Tim Burton-esque flair that the first game touted with pride, locations in the remake are absolutely gorgeous and give the game its own distinct dark fantasy vibe. Forests are lush, towns are hauntingly amiss and derelict, graveyards stink with necromancy and rot... the whole game just looks exactly like it absolutely should. Dan himself looks delightfully goofy, Zarok looks and behaves menacing, and the Gargoyles are out and out perfect in their new designs with their bright eyes and sarcastic smirks.

    Audio is perfect. The original composers return to deliver the game's score with the best way possible, while also re-introducing some previous songs for specific situations for a spice of variety. Actions sound like they have punch and weight to them. Voice acting is lifted directly from the original game and given an HD upgrade (with some surprise exceptions). Also, the narrator is a joy, and delightfully sarcastic in all the right places.

    It has a little bit of endgame content, which can be hit or miss depending on the player, but the last secret the game has after fully completing a certain side-quest is one hell of a treat for longtime fans.

    The downside is that, aside from the new side-quest and it's reward, and a few new tricks enemies have and certain upgrades to the game overall, there aren't many other changes. No previously deleted levels remade to be played for the curious as side-stages or DLC. No new enemies or bosses to fight. No secrets that aren't already available in the original game. You're more or less getting the Spyro treatment here, except it's just one game rather than three. Also, the camera, while improved, has its issues...

    All in all, a very fun remake, and one i'm glad I picked up when I did. I'm proud to have this game in my collection, and hope to play it for years to come just like I have the previous games. Here's hoping for a MediEvil 2 remake, or perhaps... MediEvil 3?    … Expand
  5. TheKampfpanda
    Dec 31, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wow. Amazing game. The new graphics gave me a new feeling bout this. 9/10 points, because the camera is crap, like in the old game. Wonderful idea from the developers that you can unlock the original game.
    I'm lovin it    … Expand
  6. Vapor96
    Dec 30, 2019
    7
    Having a lot of nostalgia for the original, getting this remake was a no-brainer. While I had a good time with it, it ultimately left me with mixed feelings. The graphics are extremely pretty now, the creepy locations still sport great variety, and the atmosphere is definitely as Halloween-y as it gets. What really surprised me was how outdated MediEvil feels in the modern days: punishingHaving a lot of nostalgia for the original, getting this remake was a no-brainer. While I had a good time with it, it ultimately left me with mixed feelings. The graphics are extremely pretty now, the creepy locations still sport great variety, and the atmosphere is definitely as Halloween-y as it gets. What really surprised me was how outdated MediEvil feels in the modern days: punishing level design complete with water hazards and sudden deaths, obligatory backtracking, a total lack of checkpoints, and clunky combat make often playing it feel more like a chore than fun. A little modernization would have been welcomed.… Expand
  7. MediaFreak
    Dec 27, 2019
    5
    A decent enough game that's ruined a bit too much by dodgy controls, terrible ranged weapon targeting and poor platforming. Had all this stuff been tight then the difficulty of starting a level with the little health you finished the last one could have been forgiven, but it just makes a game you dont really want to play, take longer.
  8. Cr4shBandic00t
    Dec 19, 2019
    5
    I really, REALLY want to like this game. It’s got variety and charm busting out of it’s ears, but I just can’t ignore the issues it has. The frame rate can feel horrible at times, the camera is clunky, there are so few checkpoints when needed (such as before a difficult boss fight) which leads to a lot of frustrating replaying and backtracking. The game just feels OLD still, like aI really, REALLY want to like this game. It’s got variety and charm busting out of it’s ears, but I just can’t ignore the issues it has. The frame rate can feel horrible at times, the camera is clunky, there are so few checkpoints when needed (such as before a difficult boss fight) which leads to a lot of frustrating replaying and backtracking. The game just feels OLD still, like a visually upgraded PS1 game, with no issues fixed. I feel like they could’ve done a lot more to modernize this game. LIKE PUTTING IN MORE CHECKPOINTS!! Sometimes you’ll need a shield, such as this one level where you must search these underground corridors for items, and you’ll find nothing. It can also be difficult, and not a fair kind of difficult. The game can be awesome at times, the characters are really unique, the design of the world is incredible, but still. Sometimes the visuals are razor sharp and quick, but other times, the textures and frame rate are abysmal. For $30 I’d say it’s a good pickup for collectors, but if you don’t have any nostalgia for this series, I’d say skip it. Or at least prepare yourself for some frustration instead. Get Crash Team Racing instead, it’s a much better remake than this.… Expand
  9. SuperkenGaming
    Dec 19, 2019
    8
    MediEvil
    The original dark souls
    Medievil is a remake of the now over 21 year old game for the ps1 with the same name, and it a remake from the ground up much like the recent spyro trilogy and crash trilogy, and this is one of the most frustrating yet satisfying games ive compleed in recent memory. MediEvil took me around 13 hours to complete and if youre not used to this old school    MediEvil
    The original dark souls
    Medievil is a remake of the now over 21 year old game for the ps1 with the same name, and it a remake from the ground up much like the recent spyro trilogy and crash trilogy, and this is one of the most frustrating yet satisfying games ive compleed in recent memory.
    MediEvil took me around 13 hours to complete and if youre not used to this old school style of gameplay, is a tough 13 hours to get through…
    Here youll be playing as Sir Daniel Fortesque as he sets out to stop the evil zarok raising the dead and tainting the souls. This is a hack and slash action adventure game where each level youll be slaying enemies, discovering secrets, and taking down bosses on your journey to take down zarok and prove yourself in the hall of heroes… each level has a percentage of souls needed to fill a chalice, this gives you the urge to ctually want to engage in combat despite how frustrating it proves to be… as collecting this chalice and then making it to the end of the level rewards you with the possibility of a new weapon, each increasingly becoming more powerful and useful… its this exploration and mystery that keep medieval from becoming too much.. every level here feels fresh and verried from start to finish.. no two levels feels the same, many will even surprise you and all this is necessary because of the old school nature of medievil, beause though the graphics have been brought up to date, the gameplay has not… every level plays by perma death rules, meaning there are no save or checkpoints.. if you die in a level no matter how far you get, you have to start the level from the very beginning with what you enter this level with.. which can prove challenging as you aren’t replenished health at the beginning of these levels.. though there is a way to cheese this by returning to dans crypt over and over before a new level.. I feel as though the player shouldn’t have to do this though.. filling my lives before a level should just be standard… to add to the difficulty, though the platforming feels a bit more modern.. it still has that old school cheap I have no control feel, leading to many cheap deths and game overs as falling doesn’t just take say 50 to 100 damage, it takes an entire life from you… which of course leads to many frustrating moments and a few frustrating levels where the platforming is just awful and nothing is below to catch you… on top of all of this, there is little to no indication of you taking damage, no sense of enemy range… taking the hack and slash genre a little too literall.. youll find yourself button mashing your way through levels if you don’t care to stick to range attacks..needless to say there will be a handful of levels youll be replaying.. when you can get past all of this frustration though, medievil proves to be a great and satisfying adventure, one that encourages exploration, combat and challenge, Altering the mechanics and systems to todays standards could make this an even more enjoyable experience, but sometimes we all need a little old school frustration
    I give MediEvil
    an 8/10    … Expand
  10. Grahlom
    Dec 15, 2019
    6
    As other reviewers stated, nothing much has changed in quality of life from the original, framerate can be at points unbearable. 60 fps should have been the norm for this game.
  11. VTL
    Dec 11, 2019
    7
    Buen Remake. La jugabilidad no es la mejor ya que ha envejecido un poco mal, pero es que es la que es igual que la del Crash que sin embargo pues ha envejecido bien. Pero graficamente es muy bueno verlo limpio de poligonos y con el doblaje original que es un puntazo... Remake como he dicho bien. Bueno.
  12. Bumblebeet
    Dec 10, 2019
    8
    A great remake of a classic! The only thing I would warn everybody about is that it still has a few wierd bugs (although nothing game-crashing as far as I know) which make the experience a little frustrating at times. The thing that I think is the most annoying is wonky collision around certain walls and objects that can make manuvering around tighter areas a bit difficult. The overallA great remake of a classic! The only thing I would warn everybody about is that it still has a few wierd bugs (although nothing game-crashing as far as I know) which make the experience a little frustrating at times. The thing that I think is the most annoying is wonky collision around certain walls and objects that can make manuvering around tighter areas a bit difficult. The overall presentation is crisp and fluid, and it really honors the original while adding some nice quality of life improvements.… Expand
  13. treign
    Dec 7, 2019
    10
    This game is a 10 for a number of reasons. It stayed true to the original game. So little was changed it was refreshing to see a new coat of paint put over it. The music is this game is just something else, draws you in and if you played it before brings you back. I love that you can unlock the old game by going on a soul hunt, that was like a cherry on top. The game fires on allThis game is a 10 for a number of reasons. It stayed true to the original game. So little was changed it was refreshing to see a new coat of paint put over it. The music is this game is just something else, draws you in and if you played it before brings you back. I love that you can unlock the old game by going on a soul hunt, that was like a cherry on top. The game fires on all cylinders, It is the perfect remake. Wish the studio remaking this did final fantasy 7, i've got a feeling that game is going to blow.

    Props to the studio that remade it, grade A guys.    … Expand
  14. zamothjc
    Dec 5, 2019
    8
    um ótimo jogo que trouxe lembranças boas da minha infância de volta com lindos gráficos e sem tirar a alegria que o antigo dava quando se jogava
  15. NeoconTom
    Dec 3, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. MediEvil is flawed but fun remake of 1998 classic, MediEvil. Compared to other remakes on PS4 such as Ratchet & Clank (which also a bit of re-imagining), MediEvil sticks very true to its source material, which is major positive. What is not a positive is some dated mechanics it keeps intact, such going back to previous levels just to re-fill health, which is not good game design, it wasn't in the 1990s, and its worse in 2010s. Mechanics such as this offer no challenge, just waste your time. The game also looks really good a lot of times in the graphics, art-style and resolution departments, sometimes rivaling other major "cartoony" gaming IPs, although the resolution on some objects its lower than things around it (for example a single character on screen appears to be lower resolution than another character on screen and/or the background). I also appreciate the devs attempting to target 60fps... unfortunately, the game often suffers some of worst framerate drops I've seen in a game this gen.

    Overall the game is held up by fun gameplay, interesting level design, great progression system, charming world and characters, neat music, and overall 1990s game design that is sorely missed in 1910s, even if the remake stumbles in more areas than it should.

    One other thing this game has going for it, is the original game from which the remake is based off is present in the game as an award for completing a side-quest (this is new to the remake). Very few remakes although you to play the original, so props off to the developers who really cared about this project.    … Expand
  16. Eneas_frazao
    Nov 23, 2019
    10
    Um dos melhores remakes do ps4, inclusive superior à trilogia crash. O jogo tem uma estética muito atrativa, além de possuir uma dificuldade um tanto elevada durante a primeira gameplay (e antes de conseguir as armas mais poderosas, o que se faz coletando os cálices de cada nível). Realmente trata-se de um jogo casual muito divertido.
  17. JSparda_369
    Nov 22, 2019
    10
    This remake is beautiful that's all, don´t read the press reviews.
    Thank you so much for this remake
  18. Moish
    Nov 21, 2019
    8
    A very true to the original remake that doesn't let the game shine like it could have been if it implemented new mechanics and gameplay beyond collectibles that make you do a second run on the game to unlock the original version emulated in game, a niche game for the fans of the original and its game style fanatics that likely doesn't please everyone.
  19. ScorpionOvHell
    Nov 21, 2019
    10
    10/10
    Feel like back in the time.

    And 100% have a beautiful surprise, buy it without doubt if you enjoyed the original.
  20. thedeadcat01
    Nov 19, 2019
    10
    Let me start this by saying I am so happy that even with the beautiful modern update that they did to this game graphics wise that they didn't go out of their way to modernize the gameplay. I played the original in anticipation for this HD release and I am happy to say that the gameplay is the same. Modern gamers are spoiled. enjoy a game for what it is Snowflakes. if you need yourLet me start this by saying I am so happy that even with the beautiful modern update that they did to this game graphics wise that they didn't go out of their way to modernize the gameplay. I played the original in anticipation for this HD release and I am happy to say that the gameplay is the same. Modern gamers are spoiled. enjoy a game for what it is Snowflakes. if you need your handheld then play something else. I have been gaming since 1970 and while I love the advancements I still love the old school. This game nails the best of both worlds. It was a masterpiece when it came out and this version only confirms that. Great job on the upgrade of an an amazing game.… Expand
  21. NaKaGaWa13
    Nov 19, 2019
    10
    Great remake of the Great game! Atmosphere is as it was in 1998, but with cool graphics and new features! Love the lost souls added in the remake! A lot of Nostalgia and warm feeling !!! 12/10
  22. ENOTMAN
    Nov 17, 2019
    10
    спасибо сони за возвращенное детство.всё в точности как было 20 лет назад.графика сочная,играется олдскульно и бодро.
  23. Capitan_Cesar
    Nov 14, 2019
    6
    Si costara 60 euros le bajaría la nota, pero al salir a ese precio barato merece la pena.
  24. marjuszkp
    Nov 11, 2019
    9
    Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful...absolutely great. A beautiful journey to the times of psx, wonderfully shown on current generation consoles
  25. 145gaming
    Nov 9, 2019
    9
    A great remaster and reminder that old games still place in this day and age love the original and love the remaster
  26. JosephCross
    Nov 9, 2019
    6
    It is a fun game. But it feels dated... I enjoyed for a while.
    Maybe if they improved the mechanics would have been better
  27. Calvocartonero
    Nov 8, 2019
    7
    Muy bonito gráficamente la cámara es mala como en el original y la jugabilidad fiel al original que para mi eso es bueno si te gusta que sea fiel en esos aspectos te va a gustar a mi me gustó mucho.
  28. Berzep
    Nov 8, 2019
    9
    Great Remake of nostalgic game, don't forget to collect and solve all souls, you will get nostalgic reward!
  29. ElQueCalifica
    Nov 7, 2019
    10
    Es un gran remake, me gusta que el gameplay sea prácticamente el mismo que el de ps1, porque me recuerda a mi feliz infancia con la ps1
  30. Sonyer
    Nov 7, 2019
    0
    The game is a disgrace and a disaster, just the graphics are a little cool but the gameplay is awful the controller is just ridiculous, too much hype for this piece of thash.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 72 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 72
  3. Negative: 7 out of 72
  1. Carole Quintaine
    Jan 29, 2020
    70
    More than 20 years after its released on PlayStation 1, Medievil is back from the dead on PS4. Unfortunately, it looks much more like a remastered version than a full fledged remake. It shines with colorful graphics and spooky atmosphere, but its gameplay remains too rigid, and its mechanics haven't aged well. A title reserved for fans of the license or lovers of Halloween and «The Nightmare Before Christmas».
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Dec 16, 2019
    80
    It's a short, but very intense adventure, with brief cinematics, compact maps without padding or copy/pasted elements. It brings a lot of variety into the world teeming with bland "sandboxes".
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  3. CD-Action
    Nov 25, 2019
    60
    If you disregard the nostalgia factor, the game is anything but extraordinary. It won’t win over new, younger players... but on the other hand they are not the target audience. [13/2019, p.78]
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