The timing of Another Code: Recollection’s release — shortly after Sony’s hyped-up but completely superfluous and unnecessary The Last Of Us Part II Remastered — is kind of hilarious.

And this game starkly highlights the difference between (let’s not beat around the bush here) a cynical cash grab of a “remaster” and a full-on remake that brings an oft-forgotten game (or pair of games, in this case) to a whole new audience, divested of the less desirable aspects of the baggage that came with its original context.

Another Code: Recollection, in other words, is an excellent example of how to do a remake of a game. And whether or not you played the original Nintendo DS and Wii games in the series by the dearly departed developer Cing, it’s a very worthy use of your time to play the Switch version. So let’s take a closer look.