I don't want to espouse negativity on it, but it does have some pretty insurmountable flaws in core gameplay that prevent it from being a better experience than the original. The remake is probably worth getting on a heavy sale price. If you have a Saturn, or a means of properly emulating it. That aside, grabbing the original Saturn version will be the best gameplay experience.
Orta is an incredible game on its own merits, and one of the best games in the genre. It has a port of the original Panzer Dragoon as an unlockable for beating the game, though if you're not already into rail shooters in general, and Panzer Dragoon specifically, it can be a bit challenging to get to that point. Some of the best money you can spend on the entire platform. It's $10 on Xbox, and occasionally goes on sale for half that, and was an outright beautiful game when it launched, continued to outclass a lot of Xbox 360 games for a while, and still looks fantastic on modern consoles in 4K. My personal recommendation is to grab Orta. They have patched the game a few times to address some of the latter issues and while it's hardly perfect, it was unplayable before, whereas now I can at least say it's worth playing if it's your only option. The Steam version is a complete remake by a studio out of Poland, and the contentions people have are about whether the new visuals accurately capture the aesthetic of the original, as well as a lot of technical & control issues that make it feel much worse to play. The unlockable version inside Orta for Xbox is a fairly straight port of the old PC version, and for some reason it doesn't run with any of the next-gen enhancements that Orta itself gets when you play on newer Xboxes. The PS2 version (ported by many of the original team) has some upgraded models here and there and is properly adjusted for 30FPS (the original runs at 20, basically), and it also has some near bonus unlockables, as well as a more authentic mode (based on the old PC version) if you want it.
This version was directly ported to PC back in the day and it was a good port for its time, albeit not 1:1 visually.
The Saturn version was a launch title and looks/runs as such, but it has a very austere aesthetic that the remake (and even Orta for Xbox, some might argue) doesn't have.
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