HD Remakes and Remasters are all the rage these days: the former is about rebuilding an original title from the ground up, the latter is about re-releasing an original title with higher resolution visuals.

6 stars

A hallmark of excellence. It may have some flaws, but they are negligible to what is otherwise a supreme title.

This is an awesome collectors edition. The art is beautiful and the game itself is incredible. Get this now, one day this will be hard to find.

Every bit as lovely as the original, Leifthrasir breathes new life into Vanillaware's debut side-scroller and then some.

Dazzling visuals; interwoven character vignettes; sweeping fantasy score; clever interplay of RPG systems; refined gameplay

Omission of all-new character scenarios; skirmishes can become repetitive

Let me start off by saying that I am a huge fan of Vanillaware and I have played the original Odin Sphere on PS2. The Odin Sphere was an amazing game and definitely defined what features i thoroughly enjoy in a video-game.

ATLUS x Vanillaware, the team behind the hit side-scrolling action game Dragon's Crown releases a new authentic HD project to recreate and perfect the PS2 classic Odin Sphere - a 2D action RPG with Norse Mythology roots. Told in five tales from the...

- Beautiful presentation; - Smart changes to gameplay mechanics

-Easy difficulty

Not many games get a second chance at life like Odin Sphere. A PlayStation 2 role-playing game, released in the twilight years of the console's lifetime, Odin Sphere was the topic of many whispers and rumblings, a banner-child for the cult-classics of games.

Incredible artwork; Endearing five-protagonist set-up; Inventive combat; Build-up to ending is spectacular

Blocking is finicky; Some bosses don't pair well with protagonists

All right, I am going to fess up before we get too far into this review; I somehow managed to miss out on Odin Sphere when it first released back in 2007. At the time, the game had a relatively positive reception critically, but it wasn't really atop the list of games that I would have expected to...

The amazing art style and incredibly deep RPG mechanics offer up a constantly exciting and evolving combat experience

With all of the different skills; powers and tools at the player's disposal; it gets very overwhelming to determine your best route to success

Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is a fantastic update to an already wonderful game. The numerous changes accentuate and expand on what made the original so good, and a Classic Mode offers purists the chance to play through the game in its high-definition glory but without any changes to the mechanics.