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It's not an "HD remake". "HD remake" has a specific and consistent meaning to developers, press and consumers. It means taking the original code and assets and then improving them. We like the word "remaster" because it's a nice parallel across music and film. Remastered music and films are the same as ever, but a polished, better quality (unless you don't like the polish, I guess).
New 'n' Tasty isn't that. Abe's Oddysee HD would be the same game with some tinkering under the hood to support controllers, higher-res backgrounds and sprites, higher bitrate audio, stuff like that. It wouldn't be HD, because the backgrounds were made in 640 × 480, but that's the kind of thing people would expect from an "HD remake".
Hopefully you'll agree we've been working on something a bit more impressive than that. That's why we're keen to steer clear of the "HD remake" mislabel.
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Agreed. A 'HD Remake' is when they take an already existing game, like MO or SW, and spruce it up a bit with better graphics. This has been built from nothing. (Only thing that was there before was a concept and other
non-physical stuff. They've pretty much built an entirely new game and without the concept, etc, it
would be an entirely new game.