It is still against the clock but the fact it autosaves when you load into each new area makes it less stressful I think. There is still the time pressure involved though which can be stressful.I quite fancy playing this, I had the original on 360 but I remember not enjoying it as it was against the clock.
They've added a casual difficulty option too that makes you level up very fast.Looking online at similar requests people have made re. removing the timer and the answers I don't think I played the game the way it was intended back in the day.
I see now it's almost rogue like, you're not supposed to do everything in one run and progress carries over making subsequent runs easier/faster as you level up.
That makes more sense, not sure how I missed this back then but will blame it on my age at the time.
Will keep an eye for a sale to pick this up.