Posted on: August 21, 2020
CharlieLima79
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A lazy remaster of a classic game
I bought ‘Flashback: 25th Anniversary’ because I never got past the first level when I played the original PC game in the 1990s. Being older and a bit wiser now, I’m determined to finish it. But, I’m no fool – the game was hard back then and it’ll still be hard over 25 years later, perhaps more so with my slower reaction time due to old age. Thankfully, ‘F25’ presents the game in either Classic mode or Modern mode. The Rewind feature in Modern mode allows me to rewind time up to 2 minutes before the point I died in the game. It saves me the headache of restarting the level, as save points are far and few in between. Rewind makes ‘F25’ more accessible to contemporary audience, and to gamers who are older (yet less tenacious and/or inexperienced with the original game) like me. Aside from Rewind, ‘F25’ doesn’t have other major upgrades to contemporize the game. Filters like CRT and Noise & Static are gimmicky; antialiasing and bloom only add tiny visual improvement. The developers didn’t even try remastering the graphics properly. They just used a Post-FX filter, resulting in graphics that are less defined, less detailed, and frankly unappealing. ‘F25’ doesn’t even allow you to remap your keys. The original keyboard control configuration was already not optimal, and even more so right now. With SHIFT being used for firing, Sticky Keys in Windows gets activated a lot. So, I end up playing ‘F25’ with a game controller much to my chagrin. Yet, the controls remain janky and slow, and are still not ideal for combat situations. Claiming to be a celebration of ‘Flashback’, there’re no retrospectives or production notes from the original developer. You can hear the remastered soundtrack, and unlock ‘Flashback’ street art (yes, unlock) as a bonus for some reason. So, yay?! Honestly, ‘F25’ feels like a lazy remaster or update. Whether you liked the original or not, I think you’d agree that it deserves better.
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