Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world!...
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world!
Now, over twenty years later, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects (which the original 90s marketing blurb described as ‘zany!’)
Players are able to switch back and forth between classic and remastered modes, and mix and match audio, graphics and user interface to their heart's desire. We’ve also included a concept art browser, and recorded a commentary track with the game’s original creators Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.
Day of the Tentacle was Tim Schafer’s first game as co-project lead, and a much beloved cult classic! This special edition has been lovingly restored and remade with the care and attention that can only come from involving the game's original creators.
100% new hand painted, high resolution artwork
Switch on the fly between classic mode and remastered mode
Remastered high quality voices, sound effects and music, with emulated “iMuse” style dynamic music
Choose between two remastered music modes: modernized, re-voiced music, or classic music which sounds just like it did in the 90s
Concept Art Browser
Highly customizable user interface and experience, with mix and match options for old and new play styles - play with the verb bar in remastered mode, or the new verb dial in classic mode
Commentary track with original creators: Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.
Game within a game: Includes full playable version of Maniac Mansion!
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Still as slapstick and hilarious as I remember it.
Puzzles can be a bit on the harder side of things, so typical 'try everything on everything' or 'use everything' kind of game. But all in all? Very hilarious.
I haven't played this game in the past, but played many other Lucas Arts games. Beating it now, I can say it's easily goes into my top 5 classic adventure games.
The puzzles are usually logical and fun to solve. Graphics and audio are top notch for their time. Humor is on Monkey Island level.
There were a couple puzzle that were non-sensical, but overall I solved them without any guide, and I'm not particularly good at these games. There's a lot of back and forth walking like in Maniac Mansion, which started to get a bit annoying around the second half.
The remaster itself is pretty good, with a few quality of life features and bonus materials added. I still preferred using the old graphics, I think they still look better with more detail. It's a shame that you can't use the highlighting feature with the old graphics though. Because of this, I had to go between modes to use it, which was a bit jarring. I'd also liked they included a CRT filter, but you can't have everything. Because of these points, I'm removing one star.
All in all, great game, still holds up and very playable, and relatively beginner friendly. Go for it!
When was the last time I played this game? Over 15 years ago! I remember that it took me weeks to beat, and I did not have the luxury of walkthroughs at that time. With the remastered version, I was surprised that I finished it in a couple of days, glad that I remembered most of the puzzles (I don't have as much free time anymore!).
I was blown away with how BEAUTIFUL the animation looked! I wondered, surely it looked similar to this when I was a kid? So I switched it back to the classic graphics and AGH, was it really THAT pixely back then?! I guess my brain filled in the rest of the details ;)
If anyone is complaining that they switched the classic "verb bar" to the "verb wheel" you can easily change this in the settings, I definitely prefer the classic verb bar!
The character design and voice acting was delightful and is a great example of colourful, unique, and equally likeable characters.
This type of game is easily modernized, I can see myself really enjoying this on a tablet!
I love Day of the tentacle remastered!! However, when using the computer in Ed's room to play Maniac Mansion, I expected it to be remastered too...
Another thing. I use Linux and the first time I played the game it didn't have any sound! This is due to the fact that the game detects 2 sound cards (the default and HDMI) and I think the game uses the HDMI card by default, which results in no sound. Luckily, I could fix this problem running the game in this way: "./Dott --audio-device 1"
The only reason to get it is because of the game and Windows support. Remastered Graphics are meh, looks worse than the original, sloppy and cheap. If there was any additional content, I don't remember, because I did not care. Despite everything I said, I think this game is worth getting even if you already played the DOS version.
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