I hear the Steam version of this is pretty good now after patches. I played through it again on SNES a few months ago and enjoyed myself a lot. Would be nice to have a version with the cutscenes but not the load times.
No it's Ponytaw in Sheild and Sirfetch'd in Sword. That was final factor that lead to me picking Shield. Which I ordered with release date shipping so I wouldn't have to go out and my package gets delayed until Monday. >_<
I don't think the original had a rating but if it did I think it would have been a light-R or a hard PG-13. I only saw the remake once so don't remember it very well.