The developer that helped bring 1997's GoldenEye 007 to modern consoles has defended its rather buggy port of the game, calling the issues experienced by some a "side-effect of it being [an] emulation" of the Nintendo 64 original.
Following complaints from the community calling out frame lags, glitches, and "unplayable controls" on the Switch and Xbox, developer Code Mystics Inc. tweeted that these "graphics quirks" are an expected consequence. We might consider these bugs annoying (and the excuses a little flimsy), especially when comparing the game to modern first-person shooters, but Code Mystics want to remind us that "GoldenEye was breaking new territory on the N64."
In short: this is exactly what the game was like back in the day, and therefore it's exactly what you'll get 26 years later.
But there are some perks to GoldenEye 007 being an emulation: all of your favorite old strategies for sneaky sniping and in-game shortcuts might still work. This seems to be the case for a popular, cheeky hat-shooting maneuver that Twitter user @AnthonyAllenYT demonstrated, commenting that it "still works after 26 years" thanks to the game being an emulation rather than a remake.
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