You're not alone.
This feels a little bit like a remake of Citizen Kane to me. The HD remaster was fine -- that's just akin to cleaning up a damaged negative. But a straight up remake of a masterpiece. Hrmm ...
The comments about the controls make me sad. It's like wishing someone would remake Pulp Fiction, but put all the scenes in chronological order this time, so it's less confusing. Yeah, the controls are off-putting at the beginning, but if there's no struggle to master the controls, the moments where you do
things with that mastery lose their impact.
Not to hammer to hard on film metaphors that may not make sense to a lot of people, but the updated graphics remind me of the shot for shot remake of Psycho. Yeah, you've got all the pieces in the right place, but you don't have the original team's vision guiding things. It looks pretty, but I'm not sure that it has the same artistic meaning and value.
Eh. Maybe I'm overreacting. We'll have to see how it turns out ...