Day of the Tentacle Remastered
A brief overview…
Goal: To stop an evil triangle from taking over the world.
Method: Travel back in time to the day before so that you can stop the triangle from becoming evil in the first place. However, the majority of the story revolves around blowing a large sum of money on a shopping channel product, and finding sources of electricity that you can plug toilets into.
Heroes: The true heroes of this game are a metalhead who has zero book smarts, a trainee doctor who cannot be trusted with her own scalpel, and that nerd from the first game who used to be a coward. This trio receives help along the way from an ex-villain mad scientist, the founding fathers, a hamster and a dead guy.
– Real player with 141.5 hrs in game
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My previous article on my experiences with working on Day of the Tentacle Remastered cover a lot of my own history with the game, but don’t dive deep into my feelings about the remastered edition itself - after all, the game was more or less finished before I came onboard and I had plenty of time to play through it before I started working on it.
Re-creating low fidelity assets with greater detail removes a degree of ambiguity that different players invariably fill with different impressions. To one person, a few pixels here, might be interpreted as a smooth shape, while to another, the pixel edges define something more jagged - are the ends of Laverne’s fingers square or rounded? Are outlines fixed or varying width?
– Real player with 102.7 hrs in game
Sonic CD
It all started when I was 7 years old. My parents gave me a Sega Genesis and a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog for christmas. I fell in love with it the moment I booted up the game. The graphics, the music, the speed! It overwhelmed my young mind. I played it for hours on end, memorizing each level, the location of every powerup, every enemy, every single ring. It was the only thing I did, I stopped going outside and playing with my friends, for Sonic was the only friend I needed. Eventually I became unsatisfied, I needed a new Sonic the Hedgehog game to fuel my addiction. My prayers were answered with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. My parents refused to buy it for me. They believed I was too obsessed with the first one and knew that buying the second one would only make my obsession worse. This devestated me. I NEEDED that game, I felt like an alcoholic going through withdrawl. I lost all of my spirit, I had trouble sleeping at night, and sometimes I would experience hallucinations where Sonic was in the room with me. I begged my parents every day, but they wouldn’t budge. I felt I had lost the will to live. Thankfully, I got the game. I aquired it the same way every kid got something that they wanted but their parents wouldn’t buy for them, Grandma. I was overjoyed, finally I could experience the masterpiece that is known as Sonic The Hedgehog 2. This time he was accompanied by Tails! I was delighted. I played this game, and mastered it like I had the original. By now I had lost contact with society, I didn’t talk to anybody at school, I had no friends, and I never left the house. This didn’t bother me though, in fact I preferred it that way. Just as I started to get bored of that game, Sonic 3 came out. My obsession had hit an all-time high, I was amazed at the quality of that game. We now had Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. They were my friends, or “The Gang” as I called them. My parents were scared of me now. If they tried to take the game away from me, I would throw a tantrum and break things until they gave it back. No amount of reasoning, counseling, or Native American rituals could change me, because by now Sonic had was not just an obsession, but a lifestyle. I lived and breathed Sonic. But then came the dark days, no sonic games were coming out. Sega had stopped supporting the Genesis, and had launched the Saturn. I didn’t have one, but that didn’t matter. No new Sonic games were coming out. There were rumors, but the only one that ever turned out to be true was Sonic R. I saw it as an abomination, how could Sega do that to Sonic? After several years I had just about given up. I would often times cry myself to sleep, believing that Sega had given up on the blue hedgehog that I had come to adore. I wrote my own stories about Sonic, but they weren’t enough. But then it happened. I was at the grocery store with my mother, when I saw it: A magazine with a picture of the Sega Dreamcast plastered right on the cover. I begged my mom to buy it for me, and she did, relieved that I wanted something that wasn’t Sonic related, or so she thought. I read the articles about the upcoming system, and then I saw what I have been wanting to see for years, a new Sonic game was in the works, and it was 3D too! My life had a purpose again. When the day finally came, I was there. I was the first in line, I had convinced poor old Grandma to buy it for me, and I made sure I got a copy of Sonic Adventure. If the games on the Genesis amazed me, Sonic Adventure left me speechless. The worlds were so detailed, the graphics so realistic, the music blew me away. This was the way Sonic was meant to be. It rekindled the fire that had laid dormant in me that is Sonic. I wrote more fanfiction, I made my own fancharacters and I even shipped them. Then I realized something, Sonic wasn’t just a blue hedgehog on TV, He was a part of me. I became one with Sonic. If you want to be like me and know what truly matters in life, I fully recommend this game to you. Sonic is more than just a game, Sonic is a way of life.Go see the sonic movie, speeding to a theater near you February 14th, 2020.
– Real player with 42.0 hrs in game
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Sonic CD is a pretty good game that took advantage of some great ideas, but after multiple playthroughs, I felt that it was marred by noticeable flaws which dragged down what would otherwise have been a solid game.
Time travel enhances the exploration factor to Sonic’s already multi-tiered level design by creating secondary objectives that require seeking out specific objects, in addition to changing the terrain for each time zone. This gameplay element is reinforced thematically; if you don’t find the badnik spawners, the zone enters a Bad Future where Eggman has soiled the landscape… but if you do destroy them, things look even better than in the Present, and as a bonus all of the enemies are destroyed. I always feel a certain sense of satisfaction from going to the Past, destroying the spawner, and then going into the Future of that same level to enjoy the scenery and rack up rings and 1ups (“I did this, and now I’m reaping the rewards”). You can also create a good future by collecting all of the time stones (which also gives you the “good” ending, as miniscule a difference as it is).
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
CHRONO TRIGGER®
This game will be one of my favorite JRPG of all time. I have known that Japanese gamers has voted this game for the best game of Heisei era (1989-2019). I played it and now I know why. I recommended for both JRPG lovers and those who want to start playing JRPGs.
– Real player with 61.9 hrs in game
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Honestly, it aged gracefully, from both a gameplay and a story perspective! 10/10.
– Real player with 58.2 hrs in game
Future Proof
This is a wonderful game of interconnected puzzles, there are lots of hints, riddles, and items to decipher. There are tons of ways to beat the game some silly, some very thought provoking and sad, and some really funny. The game has great humor too and it pays attention to details, like when the everything gets darker as your time runs out.
About the game play, this game is very difficult, and it is full of mystery. You will be trying your hardest to get through puzzles while the clock is ticking. Every death you’ll come back knowing more. Every time you’ll get a little further and you’ll probably never get far enough to know everything (unless you look it up). The game has so many puzzles twisted together as you progress through one you’ll find pieces to another and eventually you’ll find all the pieces to one and go that path and get to the end and realize you don’t like the way it ended or you want to make it end another way. This game has really good replayability. You will get to the end and start again so many times. This game is probably one of my favorite puzzle games and I highly recommend this game to anyone who wants a good puzzle and a hard puzzle.
– Real player with 39.6 hrs in game
Welcome to Greensvale, a city full of mysteries and weirdness! Hidden under the normal looking surface you will quickly ask yourself a lot questions:
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Why is there a cow in the garden?
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How does it come that I see strange hints everywhere?
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Had this city always these portals?
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And why have not all people been evacuated 12 MINUTES before a fricking meteroid is hitting the town?
Ah right, the meteroid ….. so let’s get to the point. You are playing Sean, a teenage boy escaping out of school to run home and help your parents with the evacuation. Only to find out they are already out of town. So now you are standing here: 12 minutes before the town will be annihilated and the only escape route broken down. 12 minutes to find a way to survive or how to avoid the approaching doomsminute.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Daikatana
!!Important note!!
You will have to download and install the 1.3 community patch manually. I haven’t played the game as it is (1.2). If the A.I isn’t great with the 1.3 patch then it must be atrocious without it. Link below to 1.3 patch.
What I liked about the game
- Interesting story. I like the concept behind the game; travelling to different time periods; trying to get to the right one. Episode 2 reminded me of Clash of the titans (1981) and Jason and the Argonauts. I especially liked the boss in episode 2; thought that was pretty cool.
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
It takes a special game to be this legendarily bad. For starters, the marketing campaign where John Romero will make you his bitch. That alone warrants a 10/10 on Steam’s recommend this game. Daikatana is a first person shooter, made with the Quake 2 engine. If you’re into Quake 2 and speedy running, muddy textures and great gunplay, then chances are this is the game for you.
Since this is a Quake 2 engine game, you’re able to sprint fast, including turning sprint so its always on. If you want to move slow, you’ll crouch and move. You can jump and you’ll need it for some of the precision first person platforming. You’ll tackle run, gun, puzzles, avoid meat grinders and swim.
– Real player with 21.9 hrs in game
Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice. Reloaded
A poor attempt to cash in on the success of the previous game, about 25% of the locations and dialogs are from the first game, when I started playing at first I though I’m playing the first game again. puzzles are TOO easy to the point where you just need to visit all the locations a couple of times and youre done. The story line is very weak, basically one of the heroes gets some brain implant and they travel to the future to get it removed via plastic surgery, thats it. Most of the characters are reused, there are maybe 3 new characters in the entire game. The game itself is very short,
– Real player with 54.4 hrs in game
This game is more of add-on, than of sequel in a full meaning of this word. Much of game’s sprites vere reused, especially in the first location, but some new characters appears as jusk reskins of those from the “Red Comrades 1 ”. Also, albeit this game is stand-alone, it’s much shorter than the previous insallement, and can be easlily done in under in 50 minutes.
Conceptually, this game is mainly focused on how in the late 1990s developers saw “the land of the free” throught the prism of the Soviet folklore. They were also making fun of some “western realities”, that have been a fashion in Russia back then. Previous installement seemed to reflect briefly the same theme whilst our stay on the “Brothel level”, and this adds more.
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
Putt-Putt® Travels Through Time
game’s decent if i’m being honest
EDIT: I’ve put in a few more hours since the last review, and I now believe it needs a review update to properly do it justice. This game has grown on me, to the point where I play it daily. It always makes my day to click on something in the game and have it play a happy animation. My favorites are the bird in the bush behind Mr. Firebird’s workshop, the two monkeys behind the curtain in Putt-Putt’s house (I always say hello to them at the start of a game), the talking window on the stable from the view above Tire Flats, and the bird in the flower by the portal to the Castle (I really like the birds). Nothing can ever replace the presence game has in my life, and I’m fine with keeping it that way. It’s a shame this game is so underrated, and that more people won’t experience the lovable masterpiece that is Putt-Putt Travels Through Time. If there’s one complaint I would make (which I would never truly support, even at gunpoint), it’s that my dedication to this game has led to total collapse of my social life, and I’m struggling to find employment due to time it takes up in my daily routine. However, these issues are negligible in the face of Putt-Putt, because as soon as I load up the game, all my worries wash away.
– Real player with 19199.0 hrs in game
Ever wonder what Back to the Future would be like if YOU were the DeLorean? Well, here you go!
“Putt-Putt Travels Through Time” is a wonderous journey where you continually screw up the space-time continuum because Putt-Putt is late for school and his dog never buckles his seat-belt. Throughout your journey, you meet a bunch of memorable characters and explore the different time zones (there’s f***g dinosaurs and cowboys and st!). In fact, the things you do in the past, present, and future change how the game is played. Also, the adventure changes every time you play the game again so there’s infinite replayability!
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
The Journeyman Project 1: Pegasus Prime
One of the great ‘lost’ games
For those who don’t know, Pegasus Prime is a remake of the original Journeyman Project from way back in 1993. Originally planned for release in 1997 it was plagued with problems. Firstly the Saturn version got cancelled, then the Pippin version was released for a platform that quickly vanished into the long list of Apple failures in the mid 90s. Then the Playstation version was cancelled when the publisher went bankrupt. Eventually a rather cut down version was released solely for the Powermac, unlike the original game which was also available on Windows. So even though Pegasus Prime has been technically available (although long out of print) for some years, it’s been a real pain to play, if you can even find a copy.
– Real player with 35.6 hrs in game
Nostalgia pulls people back to this game, the remastered version of The Journeyman Project Turbo, the first game in The Journeyman Project series. An adventure game, involving time travel, you play as Gage Blackwood, an Agent of the Temporal Security Agency, who protects the flow of history from temporal rips.
I mention this because of course a temporal rip occurs. You get to stop it. Alone. No help. Time to be a hero!
It is a tremendous pleasure to be able to play this game in the present, instead of back in the late 1990s. The series provides an interesting look into the potential future of the human race, including our advancements in defense, luxury, and intergalactic relations.
– Real player with 27.9 hrs in game
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
“Most people think that time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you, they are wrong. Time, is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am, and why I say this. Sit down, and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard.”
And thus begins the game that defined my childhood. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time feels more like a playable fairy tale than just a normal, run of the mill video game. You play as the titular Prince, a young, proud, IMPOSSIBLY AGILE warrior from Persia who, with his father’s army, ransacks an Indian Palace and seizes the legendary treasures within to gift to the Sultan of Azad: An hourglass filled with the (also titular) Sands of Time, a mystical substance that can affect the flow of time itself, and a crystal Dagger of Time that can capture and channel the Sands. Ever prideful, the Prince is tricked into releasing the Sands of Time unto Azad, twisting and corrupting those without the Sands' complementary artifacts into mindless abominations.
– Real player with 40.1 hrs in game
Before Ubisoft was only famous for glitchy open-world console ports, it was responsible for some genuinely great games. Case in point is Ubisoft’s 3D Prince of Persia trilogy, beginning with 2003’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It’s a 3D platforming game with some decent action elements, and it’s the game that saved the 3D platforming genre. I was able to run the game with no problems in Windows 10 and it runs like greased lightning - however it may take you a while to get the game running in a HD widescreen resolution because all the default resolutions are square. But that didn’t stop me from enjoying this game and it wasn’t a hard problem to overlook. I didn’t have any problems with the keyboard controls, so I believe the game is compatible with modern systems.
– Real player with 37.7 hrs in game
A New Beginning - Final Cut
A New Beginning is a time-travel Point & Click Adventure game. While it opens in the distant future, most of the game is played in the more recent past. The game has a heavy political focus on climate change and conservation, but I think it fits it well into its narrative while maintaining a fun game environment.
The story is another post-apocalyptic disaster, this time, focusing on humanity’s inability or unwillingness to stop climate change, which leaves the future with a devastated planet that is about to be wiped out by a solar flare. In the future a team team is sent back to the past to bring about change to save the planet. You play alternately as two protagonists, Dr. Bent Svenson and Fay. Bent is a retired scientist who had been working on a sustainable energy source. He’s bitter and disillusioned over the slow progress of his life’s work and the sacrifices he made for his research. Our other protagonist Fay is optimistic and a bit naïve, but truly believes they can save the world. Overall, the story does sometimes feel a little preachy about the environment and climate change, but it is a pretty big element of the story and the motivation for the characters, so it makes sense in the context of the story.
– Real player with 57.3 hrs in game
I wouldn’t recommend this game, at least at full price.
To begin, A New Beginning is a point and click adventure that has some decent strong points. It has great music and background set pieces. Oftentimes, it is lighthearted and doesn’t take its ridiculous premise that seriously, and there are even some decent introspective moments interspersed throughout. It has a very likable main character in Bent Svensson. Its best points during gameplay come in the form of straightforward puzzles that require heavy critical thinking but do not require you to, in the words of another commenter, ‘have a telepathic link with the developer.’ A New Beginning is at its strongest when its newest puzzle doesn’t require heavy backtracking but still asks you to put in some decent legwork to find the solution.
– Real player with 12.0 hrs in game