To review the Gothic 1 Remake, I played it side-by-side with the original Gothic, as released on the Nintendo Switch. One hour in the remake, one in the original. Then back to the remake. I did that because Gothic is, in its own little way, an enormously influential classic. It paved the way for what we lovingly call “Eurojank” today; RPGs that are usually made by tiny teams with very big visions, and the results are always more ambitious than technically competent. Yet it is that rough quality that we love about Eurojank. It’s the X-Factor for the “genre”, and…