The Remake on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1693980/Dead_Space/
The Original on GOG - http://gog.la/MakeUsWhole
This was later than intended as I didn't get early access/had some irl stuff going on but Callisto Protocol will be out much quicker.

Issac complaining about his weapons running out of ammo and calling basically anything made by CEC a cheap piece of shit is such a great addition.

“Less space monster and more being drunk and remembering you have a pizza in the oven” I have a new favorite Mandy line

Whenever Isaac preps a stomp, my headcanon is that he partially activates his boot magnets and lets both gravity and strength do it’s thing.

Edit: wtf so many likes

I think the funniest part of the remake was how they hid the Peng trophy this time. You have to go back through the Flight Deck after getting the Captain's RIG to get to the engines. At this point, you already have the Kinesis module and if you remember the original, probably go "Oh, I can get the Peng trophy super early now." Well, joke's on you, you get a crazed log from someone who has it and hid it elsewhere instead.

The thing I loved about things like the S.A.B. is that it made you feel like Isaac was outsmarting the necromorphs. His superpower is that he's smart enough to cheat.

I love the idea of the bouncing saw blade doing minimal damage to Isaac because a random blade flying off is EXACTLY what his engineer suit is made to protect against

The "swearing when you're out of ammo" detail reminds me of the King Kong game. That game had an immersive system where you press a button and the player character calls out how much ammo he has left. "Three magazines on backup." "One magazine on backup" "It's ok, I have enough magazines."
What was awesome is that his voice ramps up in intensity when you're in the midst of combat, and he gets even more intense as your ammo depletes more and more to the point where he's basically screaming "THREE BULLETS ON BACKUP" "ONE BULLET ON BACKUP"

I loved that bit in old DS where Mercer ends up shouting as the crowd abandons him as the situation deteriorates, for all his cultist supervillainy, that one moment where he comes off as desperate and pitiful gives a special something to his gleeful descent into marker madness.

I saw Isaac trying to save Kendra as him having already lost so many people, and knowing that he had lost Nicole, wanting to save someone, ANYONE. DS2 even explores this with Ellie near the end, where his "final act" is to "save" Ellie as a way of redeeming himself.

"Dead space guns were always eldritch terrors from the nightmares of Californians" one of Mandy's best quotes.

I was only slightly dissapointed that Hammond doesn't give you a health pack if you meet him in the bridge with low health, even if some might argue that takes away from the "survival horror" experience, it would be great if your interactions with others would change if certain conditions are met that aren't someone's death or a secondary objective being completed. And its kinda awkward that Isaac is just there one sneeze away from meeting space jesus and Hammond doesn't seem to care.

I found it funny how Slashers were usually portrayed as relentless overpowering creatures that didn't stop attacking until their targets were ripped to pieces yet Chen just stabbed Hammond and just casually stood there for a while like he was thinking "Alright, now what?"

Isaac is such a great protagonist. His feat list is as impressive as the fact that he comes across as a genuine every man who wants to do the right thing.

MandaloreGaming actually had his face changed for this review so it would closely resemble his voice actor's face.

The best part of "cursing when his weapon is out of ammo" is that it doesn't happen when you are alone. I tested it out earlier, and despite being out of ammo [even none to reload with], he didn't swear. I was confused, then when I rewatched the video, I saw that you were showing scenes EXCLUSIVELY when you were shooting at a still alive enemy. Of course Isaac wouldn't swear he's out of ammo if no ones around to hurt him!

Kind of bummed that Mandy didn’t mention how the necromorphs can be surprisingly silent now.

It used to be they’d scream like they were diving into a mosh pit the moment they spawned.

In the remake they can go dead silent except for small little gurgles and the very quiet splat of their feet if they see a chance to sneak up on you.

Being an engineer was also a reason why I liked Alien: Isolation's Amanda Ripley. It made sense that she'd technobabble a solution and as a player I can excuse why the quest objectives are glowing, heh.
I love the idea that Issac being voice acted and griping about shitty tools and having alt takes based on how damaged he is.

The "that's the crew" line I just chopped up to her knowing but trying to play it off as if she didn't. She was probably the character going into the situation with the most information on the marker.

The devs said that the Necromorphs, slashers in particular, have a few modes of locomotion and they randomly go into each one so it might just be a case of Mandalore being insanely 'unlucky' for not seeing the sprinting jump slash as often as others. Also turns out that Slashers are the ones that still have killed the most players.

For the characters, it sucks that the delivery of the characters isn't on par with the original. It feels like in the Remake they're written more like actual people but in the Original they deliver their lines more like actual people. So on paper these characters are less one-note but the original just had some REALLY solid performances of characters losing their shit that's hard to forget. Also I feel like Kendra is much more likable as a character in this one, just is very dedicated to her job and not trusting people that have been influenced by the Marker.

As for Isaac reaching out for her I think it's a case of one of Isaac's biggest points that he just wants to help humans survive. Barring Dead Space 3, the only human I remember him actively harming in the games are Tideman and Stross and they literally gave him no other option at that point so at least it's nice to see that he still has that love for life while making Necromorph bone soup.