How is it? I heard it's a good Soulslike which might keep me busy till Elden Ring.

-How is the game itself?

Good. It's an action (adventure) game with large levels, some puzzles
& horror elements. The gameplay is not mediocrally streamlined for the
masses. If you reach a dead end, you have to go back & try again.
Each level has its own unique atmosphere.


-How is the remaster?

Great. I personally think that it is the best remaster of the last decade.
You get better graphics & widescreen support. You can use a gamepad.
You get 3 new levels restored from the original (3-4 hrs more gameplay).
And you can switch all these new things on or off to your likings.
And most important: they have kept the soul of the original game.

Shadow Man Remastered is not a "Souls-like" games, it's more like a Metroid-like (you'll to backtrack several times with new powers / abilites) with a 3rd person view.

Itss a thing brought on from how so many games heavily burrowed and was heavily inspired by one or more specific games .. its while we legit have the genre''Roguelite and Roguelike.. why we have metrovania.. aswell.. Its actually surprising though that''Soulslite'' or '/Soulslike'' has not officially became a genre yet given how much its tossed around to discribe a game thats similar enough to Dark Souls in some way .. When the other two coined genre terms had been tossed around less and become officily a genre term in less time

But ya its just because of literal terms born from describing three other games to other newer games that ''Souls like'' had popped up being a thing rather then something more alin to''Similar to Dark Souls'' or whatever similar phrasing .. though Souls like is basically the modern day'' Doom clone'' discriber for any hard game with a specific combat and style even when its not truly fitting to use such a thing ..

Which in both cases seems Souls like and Doom clone was spawned by game journo's as far as I can tell