Flashback™

One of my fave games ever is back. Still as good as ever but now with some nice graphics filters and an improved soundtrack. Controller support is good. My only gripe, i figured the low system requirements for this would let me run it on my everything including my old 32bit laptop but...64bit only....really? Yep gotta address all that RAM :s Anyway, lack of 32bit option aside, still one of the best games ever :)

All the good things said above are true. I personally love the fact, that you can turn on and off all those modern options individually, and on the fly. Thats great for people like me, who like fine tune their experience. That said, I'm even more surprised and disappointed by the fact that you can't remap your keys in this, otherwise great, remake. I'm left-handed and playing with traditional arrow keys is not an option for me. I do hope that remap options will be avaible in a near future update. Pretty please? ;)

I am a fan of the original Flashback game back from the 90s and played it a lot on Amiga. The game itself unquestionably is a legend that should be played by everyone who likes Action Adventures. There is no need to discuss this any further. BUT! I hoped to get an enhanced version for my Windows PC and got a worse one than the original. The PostFX filters make the graphics look smudgy like the very same "feature" in DOSBox. Bloom and monitor fx are best left deactivated as they don´t really add to the graphic experience. In fact the best looking version is the one that looks like the original game. Apart from that I had some performance issues when running in Full HD. The "remastered" music sounds like a pathetic midi mockup giving a faint resemblance of the original tracks. I hate to say it but the original 8 Bit Sample MODs sound much cleaner and better orchestrated! I love the game itself but this version is a failure. I´d rather stick with the emulated Amiga version. Regarding this the price of 8€ would be too high for a good remake. Sadly this remake is a bad one, too.

Finally the long awaited classic arrived on GOG! I've spent days on the Amiga version twenty years ago and I must admit - it did age well indeed. Tons of fun for gamers of my age and some extras added like the CRT filter, bloom, rewind option and other. There are some small scratches on it as well however. Some inconsistencies in french>english translation (2nd level, 'forger' probably means 'talk' but my french is at level 0 atm). Also, since this is Win&Mac version only - it would be nice to have the DOS original added with it since for the Linux gamers like myself it would finally become a good option to play the original legally via DOSbox. Other then that - instant buy and no disappointment noted so far!