Posted on: September 20, 2024
dlj
Games: 101 Reviews: 7
Good remaster,story,chars: horrible QTEs
Impressive redo, with mostly good voicing, original camera views, good music, 90's style funky storytelling (split screens, angled perspectives). I bought the original and was impressed, but lost so much time trying to get past the Quick-Time Events that the media languished in a box somewhere. Then I stumbled on the remaster, and really enjoyed it again. IIRC, it had the same audio, but uprezzed visuals and the model textures and bump mapping, but I think the polygons were the same LOD. I haven't tried the GOG version, but the one I had was based on downloadable extras that you replace after an original media install (which I still had), and it was completely solid and I began falling in love with it again. Biggest problem was that after all those years, even with trainers, you still couldn't skip the QTEs altogether. I got to the same part (like psilocybin bugs in a soulless office) and just gave up, again missing 50% of the game. If you can find something to skip the QTEs, it is worth it for some fresh gaming design and an engaging story, even though the uprezzed textures are definitely not enough to avoid looking really dated nowadays.
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