imo, if this game wasn't 3d remake of existing game, but just recalled the events of the original game in any realistic style, and have added new content, the continuation of the stories, it would been better received. . .
Cuz now the developer needs to go through the whole story, recreate all the story events, all the nuances from original game, which gives you nothing to like if you played the original story.
Why? You would ask. Well because the time this developer will take to make this remake of the game in 3D will be long, and no new content will be added, just the same story, which will be boring if ya played the original, and it will take long time to see anything new here, which is not a recreated segment of the existing story.