Flashback

 PlayStation 3
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5.4

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  1. Bozzo
    Oct 14, 2013
    5
    It's a remake, so, everything in the game was apparently thought for original Flashback fans. All possible scenarios references are there. Some jokes in the dialogs, too. And the puzzles are smart as the originals were.

    Nevertheless, I said "apparently", because the mood was lost although the plot story is the same. Those manga-like flashes are misplaced. Mostly of the audio logs, too.    It's a remake, so, everything in the game was apparently thought for original Flashback fans. All possible scenarios references are there. Some jokes in the dialogs, too. And the puzzles are smart as the originals were.

    Nevertheless, I said "apparently", because the mood was lost although the plot story is the same. Those manga-like flashes are misplaced. Mostly of the audio logs, too. And the new characters are pointless (e.g., why the girl is there?). Where is that noir/sci-fi environment?

    Also, it's a shame the producers didn't take advantage on the original game control (that was precise and totally adapted to a platform adventure). The absence of some option to configure the buttons layout makes it worse. R2 for shooting, is it really necessary?

    For last, I can't figure out the sense of that sort of beta version of the original game in the pack. There's no music, no full-screen option, the SFX are rough and the controllers are randomly configured (again).    … Expand
  2. ketchuptaco
    Apr 30, 2014
    6
    I was a huge fan of the first game (I still have two copies of it 21 years later). I was pretty excited and kind of nervous when I heard about this rebooted version. After playing it I had the following annoyances:

    The voice acting was particularly terrible, the dialogue was weak ("awesome-sauce"? are you kidding me?) and the cut scenes when Conrad receives memory flash drives were    I was a huge fan of the first game (I still have two copies of it 21 years later). I was pretty excited and kind of nervous when I heard about this rebooted version. After playing it I had the following annoyances:

    The voice acting was particularly terrible, the dialogue was weak ("awesome-sauce"? are you kidding me?) and the cut scenes when Conrad receives memory flash drives were literally story boards. Seriously, they had to be story boards. I felt like their CGI budget ran out so they just had crappy dialogue over story board still frames.

    The volume/sound engineering was all over the place. Narrations, dialogue and chatter were all over the place volume wise. I found myself adjusting the stereo fairly often. This is another thing that made the game feel rushed.

    Glitchy: A few times I had to reset the level or load a checkpoint because Conrad fell through some kind glitch and got stuck between a wall. Was the game tested?

    and now the positive stuff:
    It was very loyal to the original game. Very little had really changed. All of the missions were the same and it was very cool playing them in a rich environment. I remember being a kid and playing this game and it really brought out a lot in my imagination - so seeing those bustling worlds with all of its inhabitants and objects was really cool. Especially the death tower level. The first game felt very confined in a lot of ways, like the Titan city levels felt like that took place in a warehouse or something. This new game brought it to life. A lot of the issues that bothered me control wise in the first game were fixed (falling down two levels you instantly die, not being able to grab on to things, or just jumping to your death countless times doesn't happen anymore) making this game more playable and fluid in a lot of ways.

    Overall it was worth the $10? or whatever I paid for it on PSN. Hell, I just bought a copy of the original with the manual for $20 at a swap meet, so this to me was worth it to give it a whirl. It was nice seeing the expanded vision of the game but it was also sad that they didn't give the finer details the attention they deserve. The game feels really rushed.

    Also my final complaint is, why can't you play the original version full screen? My genesis goes full screen on my 50" and Flashback is one of the titles that actually doesn't look too bad. Not too pixelated. There should have been an option to play it full screen!    … Expand

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  1. Metro GameCentral
    Oct 10, 2013
    30
    A hugely disappointing remake that misunderstands everything that made the original great and turns a state-of-the-art blockbuster into a low rent timewaster.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Oct 7, 2013
    50
    The lead’s voice actor is completely miscast with all of the depth and nuance of an English dubbed 1980s Jackie Chan movie, the story doesn’t engage you at all and its telling is plodding and laboured. Let this experience slip from your mind and… Fade to Black. [November 2013, p82]