Flashback™

I played this game many times. From the Amiga to Sega to PC version. They are all good. So I expect this version is good as well. At least from reading the reviews. I might buy the Gog version when I feel the Flashback itch again. It usually comes close to christmas, since that is when I first got the game as a kid

I vividly remember playing Flashback back in the 1990s -- the excitement of postal orders, installing from floppy disks, the tracker music, the amazing animation. Fortunately, this conversion retains the original game. There's no "upgraded" graphics to annoy you. No "director's cut" of extra level segments. The original is there, warts and all. The game is quite short. As an adult, it's definitely more linear and straightforward than I remember. The conversion is adequate. The faux-CRT filters are, as others point out, completely optional. The bloom filter has a nasty tendency to turn itself back on. The biggest let-downs are the music and the controls. The music appears to be some MIDI files, probably from the Genesis version (?), rather than the amazing Amiga tracker files. The controls are not configurable -- annoying, since I'm too used to WASD these days. Of course, they could've done a Linux build too, given it uses Unity (AFAICT). All in all, it's definitely worth buying, especially when it hits sale.

I'm loving this game, especially with the XBOX 360 Controller Support and save options. Very nice port.

The controls for this game is mental, they are counter intuitive and cannot be remapped, it is a struggle to do anything in this sorry excuse for an ms-paint game when you do perform the controls exactly only to realize that the game does not honor your key inputs or the character reaction is so delayed that you end up dead.

Unlike the advertizing trailer and the screenshots, the cutscenes have a control overlay (similar to Netflix's "skip opening"). I have no idea how to remove it and if I can, I rather play the DOS version than have an annoying icon on every cutscene.