The original still looks like it's supposed to and is easy to get working on modern computers. HD Remaster? What are you talking about? 8$ for a game from 1992? Cash grabs know no bounds. This is just trying to take your money for no effort. I promise.
The original game was and is mediocre at best. Why do I have to buy this game I already own again just because they did a clearly half ass "remaster?" The pictures don't even make the game look visually better. Why do I have to buy it again? They just made it work correctly on a modern graphics card as far as I can tell. They didn't do anything else. Why would I buy this game again for what is basically a patch for a mediocre PS1 game? There are so many games where they did more work than even this, released it as a "remaster" and I got it for free because I already own the game. Why would I pay for this again?
This game disappointed me. I thought if nothing else the art style and design would carry me through the experience- expecting it to be like Little Nightmares which I found to be simplistic in mechanics but moody and interesting in artistic design which mostly carries the experience and keeps it interesting. This game is nothing like Little Nightmares. Little Nightmares uses its design to create a world that feels lived in and unique- despite its sinister feel and menacing atmosphere. Even with no acted out story you feel like a journey is taking place. In Darq you get none of that. The artistic design is one note, and falls completely flat past it's main character. The world is uninteresting and dull, and the monsters within it feel like they could have been bought in an asset store. Just completely devoid of any interesting characteristics or menace. The game pretends it's telling a story, but it never does. Even in world there is no story here. Supposedly you are playing a character who is just having lucid dreams. There is nothing in the game that expresses this, you only know this because all the press releases and text in GOG tell you that's what is happening. Mostly what happens in game is you keep showing up to a dingy apartment and you click on the bed to go to the next "chapter" which is really a puzzle. Because that is all each "chapter" is. A single simple puzzle. The puzzles aren't very clever either. They don't teach you any mechanics in the game- you just figure out you have them- but the game is simplistic so it's fine. You just hit one button and something happens. It's very simple. The puzzles are overall very simple slider puzzles and none are noteworthy at all. Then the last 30 seconds the game pretends it had a story the whole time. It might even think it is artsy, but it's just bad. Lastly the game took 2 hours on my first try. This is a super short, bad puzzle simplistic attempt at being artsy and scary. Highly disappointing. NOT RECOMMENDED.
I played this as every episode, except five, came out. I never bothered with chapter 5. This game is a dull mess of bad writing, characters you loathe and when possible you make the game get rid of them, and boring maps that you have to constantly wander back and forth the entirety of to do meandering puzzles that feel hollow and meaningless. It's bizarre this was headed by the same guy that made TLJ and Dreamfall. it doesn't feel like either of those games, and Dreamfall isn't even that great. But it's better than this. There is two characters in this that I like. The robot named "shit-bot" I think it was, and the cursey lady who named it. I wish this game was about them instead. It would be infinitely more enjoyable. Give this a pass and play the original "The Longest Journey" and pine with me for the days when adventure games didn't need to get Kickstarted only to come out feeling half baked, lifeless, and hollow shells of what they used to be (Except Book Of Unwritten Tales- that is a great, more modern, adventure series people should check out). The original game still holds up if you don't mind the art style of the early 2000s. The story is infinitely better with tons of characters you'll actually enjoy being around and a storyline that feels epic. Unlike this. You don't need to play this. You don't really need to play Dreamfall either. It doesn't have an ending, which this was supposed to be. Just skip them at this point. I couldn't wait for this game to end. So much so after the million years it took for episode 5 to come out I didn't even bother checking it out. Because I am certain it didn't make this better. And I didn't even bother with this "remaster" which I am also sure doesn't make this game better.
If you were curious, yes Ron Perlman was in these original Fallout games, too. I have the original GOG release of these. I do not see a reason to buy them again to get these ones that Bethesda dumped their branding all over like anyone cares that they own the IP now. From what I hear these don't even have all the stuff that originally came with Fallout on GOG so not only is there 0 point, but now we're in the negatives. Unfortunately, though, if you never played the original Fallout then yes you should get these because there's no way to get them otherwise and it's a good game despite being super buggy (which, who knows, the community probably fixed all the bugs by now).
