I guess high scores and optimising playthroughs is something I view as a bit of anachronism - it made sense 30 years ago because games were inherently more primitive, you could set benchmarks and work to beat it etc because they didn't really have to scope to create big immersive environments etc. But even then, when I played the original SoR games it wasn't really about the high scores for me, more like just playing through with the different chars, and the inherent difficulty of not being able to save the game so you had to beat it without exiting the game.
I can see the appeal for some people but in the modern age where we have thousands of games at our fingertips, for me personally it doesn't feel like a great use of my time to be replaying it, as a kid when you spent £45-50 (I think SoR3 was about that, let's say £80 in today's money) you needed to get your money's worth and play it to death, not so much now for a game picked up on Game Pass.
Forgot to mention, the soundtrack is decent, and a few nice nods in the direction of levels from SoR2 without being a complete rip off.
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