I know I'm still rather new here but I hope that his expression has at least given someone a chuckle, as it has done for me. He was a good cat and had a temperament unlike any other cat I've had before.
Honestly the art style and colors used, initially made me think it was some show on Adult Swim (look at Harvey Birdman as an example). Then I looked into it more.
Honestly I feel like it would have been a safer bet for Konami to have remade the first game instead. As it's more straight forward than the second and "less likely" to be screwed up in terms of it's story and symbolism. For instance, you ever wonder why there's two Pyramid Heads at the end of...
I always get the urge to fix/cleanup my old consoles and controllers... but then comes the realization that most of my games have died of disc rot. I also sold off the few that still worked, so...