4/5 ★ – Dima064's review of Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered.

Completed as of writing this review: 100% but not all achievements (not going to bother with unfair difficulties) Now this is a surprise for sure. After a very bare-bones remaster of XXL 2 and something else they dared to call XXL3, they've actually decided to deliver a very good remaster! Usually I'm skeptical about remasters due to them ruining the original game's feel. But here, I'd even recommend it over playing the original on PC! The remastered graphics are veeery pretty without ruining much of the original's art-direction. And the best part about it is that: if you don't like it, just change it on the fly to the original! Graphics, music, sfx are still intact! That's genius and something I've never encountered before! (I played Halo remasters only after this, just so you know) Now, it's not perfect, the UI is not 3D like in the original; for some reason the textures are not filtered, making them pixelated; and the sfx is lower quality than it should be. But still it's the idea that I respect the developers for! As for what's new, the music has been changed and there are now new time-trials. The time-trials are fun to go through, especially the coin ones. The problem with them is that they were added without much testing, as it's VERY easy to break the game, while you play them. Of course the game was not made with them in mind, so sometimes it can be annoying to fail them due to something not behaving properly. Especially in the trials that are located in the boss arenas. The music is surprisingly good! Obviously not beating the original but it has it's own spin. Unfortunately for people like me, it goes more for the "epic orchestra" rather than something funky, but it's okay for returning players. For newcomers though it's a must to turn it off in options (respect for letting us do that). I wish there was a way to combine the old tracks and the new tracks they added for ambiance. Now you may have noticed I didn't do all of the difficulties. That's because if you go for the extreme difficulty, it'll literally be unfair. That's actually ridiculous that they decided to add an achievement for that, since it clearly was not tested. You can hardly hit anyone and their constant poking from all sides will turn your HP to zero in seconds. I think it's completely fine to cheat those in some way, since, you know, they are unfair anyway! I've got a friend, who is more of a fan of the series than me, and even he didn't bother. I think that's enough evidence. For 100% just go through all achievements and don't try the extra difficulties. I think that's everything that was needed to be covered. Of course I could also mention the unfortunate players with AMD GPU's, who didn't have correct effects load in, making the game basically unplayable, but that was fixed. A bit late, but at least not never. This remaster is worth the money (in my opinion) and I highly recommend you to play it!