I'd just be honest and savage the book. If you just cushion his ego he's going to either do this again or actually follow whatever nonsense is in the book.

What a bizarre "remaster". They've barely touched the actual game and instead focused on... making the cutscenes look worse?

RTX On/Off feels really dishonest here given the assets swap as well.

The secret to watching Foundation is to fast forward anything that isn't Empire.