Day of the Tentacle Remastered

 PlayStation 4
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7.4

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  1. DBLFNE4LYFE
    Mar 23, 2016
    6
    When asked what my favorite video game of all time is, my answer is always Day of the Tentacle. I was ten years old when this game came out in 1993, and it impacted me in a way that is difficult to articulate. It inspired me to become an artist.

    I never owned Day of the Tentacle. My parents found a local mom and pop rental store that rented PC games. I don't think that was legal, if    When asked what my favorite video game of all time is, my answer is always Day of the Tentacle. I was ten years old when this game came out in 1993, and it impacted me in a way that is difficult to articulate. It inspired me to become an artist.

    I never owned Day of the Tentacle. My parents found a local mom and pop rental store that rented PC games. I don't think that was legal, if we're being honest. But I was a kid, and what did I know? I did my chores so that every other week I could return to the store and rent the game again. During the week, I would daydream about the game. I told my friends at school about the game, and they couldn't wrap their heads around what I was telling them. I asked my parents for the game at Christmas that year. Unfortunately, it was another one of those that got away.

    It didn't take long for the rental store to belly up, and my access to the game was gone. By the late nineties when I got my first job, I went looking for the game. But it was long gone. I moved on with my life. It wasn't until the summer of 2008 when I played the game again. It was an incredibly nostalgic experience to replay it. I had forgotten a lot of the puzzles, so I got to experience that joy of solving them again.

    As an adult, I've continued to follow where the people who made this game have gone. Just like the "dream team" who created Chrono Trigger (my number two), we never really got to feel the magic a second time.

    This game, the remaster of Day of the Tentacle, is what I've been waiting for as a fan for just over twenty years. It's bittersweet for me. On one hand, I feel incredibly grateful that this was even made at all. On the other hand, I feel that it's very lacking and presents itself poorly among it's contemporary peers. The core content, the original game, it's all still here. And it's great. It's worth it to check out if you're interested in classic adventure gaming.

    Just like in the Monkey Island remasters, this game allows you to switch back and forth from the original graphics to the higher definition. If I'm being completely honest here, the new high definition upgrade is not great. At first glance, it looks slick. But if you sit and look at any background for some time, it starts to wear on you. Everything is very bland and lacking detail. But when you switch back to the original graphics, you realize that that's what it actually looked like, more or less.

    I found myself preferring to play the game with the original 1993 graphics. The problem with this, at least for a Playstation gamer, is that the game is much easier to play in HD. Your actions are executed much faster and simpler in the HD mode when you're playing with a controller. When you're playing with the original 1993 graphics, it takes longer because you have to roll the analog stick all the way down across the screen to pick a different verb, and then back up to complete an interaction. The game would benefit from an option to play the game with the original graphics and the new verb wheel system. This is Day of the Tentacle, man. Go nuts!

    I was pleasantly surprised to learn that you could also switch between the old and new soundtracks. I preferred the classic soundtrack. The new music sounds like they took the original compositions and ran them through a modern synthesizer. The new music doesn't improve upon the old in any way.

    It's mentioned during the developer's commentary that the composer was frequently sent back to eliminate tracks and crunch the size of each track down to under 32kb. The graphics had the same issue. Peter Chan mentions in the commentary that he had to make the backgrounds very simple and bland because technical limitations at the time wouldn't allow for greater detail. The new stuff is very faithful to the old stuff, and it's holding the game back.

    I would love to play a total remake of this game, detached from the original. I would love to see some Double Fine musicians and artists take a crack at fleshing out the details in the presentation of Day of the Tentacle. I would be open minded to a version that goes nuts and adds in the three deleted characters for a whole new game experience. Yeah, you'd lose a lot of what made this game so great and made us fall in love with it the first time, but it would stand up better to modern standards. The age of laying new games over the old, frame by frame, note for note, should end. Flipping the graphics over from old to new on the fly was a neat technical trick back in 2009, but it's really starting to hold these remasters back. Is it going to be the same story with Full Throttle?

    When my son is a few years older, I'm going to share Day of the Tentacle with him. I'll explain the remaster to him, but it's going to be the original PC game that I share with him that day.    … Expand
  2. drlowdon
    Jul 27, 2018
    5
    As the name suggests this is a remastered version of the 1993 point and click adventure Day of the Tentacle, a game remembered fondly by a lot of people. As the game begins a walking, talking purple tentacle drinks from some polluted water and instantly becomes intent on taking over the world. Three friends decide they have to stop him.

    Everything is done with tounge firmly in cheek and    As the name suggests this is a remastered version of the 1993 point and click adventure Day of the Tentacle, a game remembered fondly by a lot of people. As the game begins a walking, talking purple tentacle drinks from some polluted water and instantly becomes intent on taking over the world. Three friends decide they have to stop him.

    Everything is done with tounge firmly in cheek and the game certainly has a charm to it. Unfortunately, as I’ve often found to be the case with the genre, the gameplay is totally uninspiring. The logic behind how to progress is all over the place and most of my time was spent just wandering around clicking on objects at random until something works and allows me to progress (or even just looking up the solution online).

    If you’re a fan of the original game, or even just the old school point and click games, Day of the Tentacle is worth checking out but there is nothing here to attract new fans to the genre.    … Expand
  3. wesker2012
    Jan 8, 2018
    7
    Very charming visuals and audio. Refreshing to play a light hearted game among all the dark atmospheric games nowadays. The gameplay was pretty frustrating though since the puzzles weren't intuitive to me. Maybe back in the day it was a classic, but reviewing the game by today's standards, i dont think it is as good. Still, I'm glad I tried it out and the game's atmosphere wasVery charming visuals and audio. Refreshing to play a light hearted game among all the dark atmospheric games nowadays. The gameplay was pretty frustrating though since the puzzles weren't intuitive to me. Maybe back in the day it was a classic, but reviewing the game by today's standards, i dont think it is as good. Still, I'm glad I tried it out and the game's atmosphere was incredibly charming.… Expand
  4. Nel
    Jan 8, 2017
    7
    Great fun, story adventure game really easy to grab a platinum, and to enjoy the ride while doing so. The game is based of the old school game day of the tentacle, and it is an enjoyable journey, but be wary of some glitches that might happend, so better be safe and save the game.
  5. Coramcrash
    Mar 13, 2017
    7
    il gioco è una remastered di un capolavoro del passato.
    la rimasterizzazione è veramente ben fatta, ma il gioco soffre degli anni che ormai pesano.
    le meccaniche non sono più adatte ai giochi odierni nonostante la modernizzazione.
    alcuni pezzi di gameplay sono oggettivamente impensabili e impossibili e rendono l'esperienza talvolta frustrante.
    voto complessivo 68/100.
  6. LikeaPisces
    Dec 22, 2019
    6
    Adventure games had their enormous importance. I revisit some. I decided to play this for the first time on its remaster. For me it did not age well. It's boring. I think it's only worth it if you want to revisit an old friend, not meet a new guy.
  7. GretchenGrinch4
    Apr 3, 2022
    7
    this is a hilarious point and click adventure. if you're looking to get your Saturday morning cartoon nostalgia in, this is the game to play. even the side trophies have some humor to them. fun stuff.

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#31 Best PS4 Game of 2016

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
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  1. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    May 18, 2016
    80
    The occasional flat gag notwithstanding, DotT’s long awaited PlayStation appearance is sublime. [June 2016, p77]
  2. Play UK
    May 16, 2016
    80
    It will wrap itself around any adventure game fan and refuse to let them go, regardless of whether they have any nostalgia for the original or not. [Issue#269, p.78]
  3. PSNStores
    May 12, 2016
    80
    Much like last year’s Grim Fandango Remastered, Day of the Tentacle Remastered brings classic point and click adventure games to a new generation to great effect.
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