… Dracula’s eyes still look like two red pixels. I guess my crt isn’t crt enough. Maybe if I smear some Vaseline all over it.
But in all seriousness, still not sure how I feel. Something seems different about the visuals, and it is nostalgic. I might try to change up my setup to use it as a second display, but I think if I had fallen for the hype and spent $100+ on one of these, I would have been very disappointed.
Today’s crt filters on modern displays is more than enough for fun effects, but I would never characterize any of this as objective improvements.
Symphony of the Night ran in the PS1’s 256x240 resolution which is well within the capabilities of even the dinkiest CRT computer monitor to render as discrete square pixels. Remember that it was designed to be played on a television, not a computer monitor, which would have been significantly muddier especially in the horizontal resolution department.