[Presto]

I finally finished the game. My campaign lasted 333 days. All my soldiers were top rank. I had 2 snipers, 2 support, 2 assaults. 2 of 'em had PSI ability. The last stage was very long. I think my final battle was a bit easy:

Spoiler!

I mind controlled a Muton Elite, and sent it into the final room. Once I got into the middle, an Ethereal came into LOS, and started a cutscene. 4 other Ethereals spawned in the room. They killed my mc'd muton. I had all my soldiers outside the room, and just kept setting them to overwatch until an Ethereal came into view. It took 3 soldiers firing at it to kill it. It must have been the leader because as soon as it died, everything else despawned, and triggered the ending and final cut scene.

One big thing that was missing in the game, imho, was free-aiming. I liked being able to shoot out walls in the original game. Then you could also shoot mc'd aliens. All in all, it was a short, but enjoyable game. Time to restore, and finish off some more achievements