Gothic 1 Remake review - the classic RPG returns with countless subtle improvements (opens in new tab)

Old-timey German RPG But Gothic was also (whose refreshingly honest, direct name honours us) chose a path made of tightropes: to be neither a perfect recreation or a wholly new entity wearing its skin, but to modernise and improve while still bringing that distinct and contrary design into an era preoccupied with the safe, infinite, frictionless paste of Content. The result is a huge vindication for everyone who took on that challenge (minus the bloodsuckers ), and a game that reuses a map I'...