Pros:
- Level Design is faithful to the original
- Excellent Boss Design
- Each weapon has a purpose
- Upgradeable abilities
- Switching weapons on-the-fly
- Music & Sound
- Lighting Effects & Visual Style
- Replay value of Challenge Rooms
- Super Joe's Machine Gun
Cons:
- Old-school, trial-and-error gameplay will frustrate many
- Enemies don't get much smarter and are less varied towards the end
- Final level is ridiculously long and requires stocking up on lives
- Camera is too close on some difficult platforming sections
- Single-player is around 2 hrs long (excluding secrets, power ups, and dying)
- Challenge Rooms get insanely difficult quickly
Misc:
- Supports DualShock 3 rumble
- Audio on the PSN version is LOUD and bass-heavy
- Crashed on me twice
- Runs at 16x9 1080
- Smooth 60fps framerate throughout