I've been looking at footage of the 20th Anniversary Edition. This looks like a much greater effort than the HD rerelease they did for PS3 and 360. However I am unconvinced that this is much better than playing the game via emulation at full HD and 60 fps.

The Switch port is locked to 30fps which is a joke for a 20+ year old game. Overall the new graphical assets look like a bit of sidegrade. The new environmental textures look pretty nice, but the new lighting makes everything look a little washed out, particularly on the character models. Jade has always had a swarthy look to her but she looks much paler here. There are other subtle visual changes I'm not a fan of, like the distortion on Secundo that makes it obvious he's a hologram now looks much more subtle.

My first impression with the audio, particularly the OST was very negative. They apparently rerecorded an entirely new orchestral soundtrack, and the first track I compared was Dancing With the DomZ.

Old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUGVVQjUNk
New: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuEgopt1eM

Particularly the alien chanting that starts around 40 seconds in is completely absent in the new version, which I consider an immense downgrade. However, after perusing more highlights from the soundtrack this one track doesn't seem representative of the overall quality. The other tracks seem to be much more faithfully recreated. Dancing with the DomZ was one of my favorite tracks in the game but I'm not nearly as irked here as I was with something like the Demon's Souls remake, which I whined about incessantly on that page.

From browsing Reddit they have hilariously managed to recreate the bug that causes Double H to vanish, making further progress impossible. I had enormous issues with the camera while playing the PS3 version, as well as brutal physics bugs in certain areas. I'm unsure if these have been carried over. The amount of DRM on the PC versions is exhaustingly stupid. Naturally one should expect Epic and Steam's own DRM depending which storefront you buy from. Then of course Ubisoft nearly always insists you create a Ubisoft account as well. But then they have the temerity to add Denuvo to a 20 year old game that has been available on GoG for over a decade, DRM free. You aint beating the pirates on this one, morons. You're only hurting your paying customers.

At this point I have bought this game four times, on PS2, then Gamecube, then PS3 and finally GoG, and I have had significant issues with every version except for the Gamecube. It has practically become tradition for a BG&E port to fall short of expectations. I have little interest in throwing down more money to play this again, but most of Ubisoft's titles come to Playstation Plus, so I wouldn't mind giving it a try on there. Overall I am amused at the prospect that this release will bring more prospective customers to the series, only for them to join the old-school fans in disappointment with the sequel scrapping everything special about the original.