Flashback 2 - 30th anniversary series revival

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2008420/view/6967693077418158361

Time to join the fight! Flashback 2 is out now

=== Transmission Incoming ===

Hello Conrad,

It’s finally time to rise against the Morphs! Your journey will be a treacherous one, and simply remembering won’t be enough this time. Will you be up to the challenge?

Discover Paul Cuisset’s latest work, true to the original
Flashback

Immerse yourself in a vibrant sci-fi/cyberpunk universe and visit multiple 3D environments
‍ Use A.I.S.H.A., a lethal adaptive weapon enhanced with combat AI for thrilling and intricate shooting action


Play Flashback 2 now!

 

[Cyberarmy]

It looks like it is more colourful then Trine and Ori series...

 

[toro]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2008420/view/6967693077418158361

Time to join the fight! Flashback 2 is out now

=== Transmission Incoming ===

Hello Conrad,

It’s finally time to rise against the Morphs! Your journey will be a treacherous one, and simply remembering won’t be enough this time. Will you be up to the challenge?

Discover Paul Cuisset’s latest work, true to the original
Flashback

Immerse yourself in a vibrant sci-fi/cyberpunk universe and visit multiple 3D environments
‍ Use A.I.S.H.A., a lethal adaptive weapon enhanced with combat AI for thrilling and intricate shooting action


Play Flashback 2 now!

a balanced review ...

 

[blessed king of longing]

doesn't look good compared to the first game (the actual first one), anyone who played both who can weigh in?

 

[taxalot]

They retconned Fade to Black for this.

 

[Percolator Fish]

today's devs have half the IQ of 90s PC game devs. there was no chance this would work.

 

[toro]

doesn't look good compared to the first game (the actual first one), anyone who played both who can weigh in?

It has nothing in common with the original game.

The original Flashback was a cinematic platformer where the accent was put on slow and exact jumping/aiming/shooting.

The new one is 2.5d and all about pew-pew. The cinematic feeling of the original is gone because the animations are no longer rotoscoped.

I will not pay potatoes just to validate that the game is shit.

If you really want to play a nice platformer: I recommend HAAK or Anno Mutationem.

 

[toro]

today's devs have half the IQ of 90s PC game devs. there was no chance this would work.

It's a new reborn french dev which sits on a huge catalogue of good IPs but they are technically incompetent and they have released only half finished games for the last decade. Last examples: new TinTin game (a buggy mess), Flashback 2 (another mess), Agatha Christie ... and they plant to shit even more garbage in the future.

I'm pretty sure they used the name of Paul Cuisset just to get some PR attention but his opinion was probably completly disregarded in the end. Or maybe he went senile.

Anyway, it's a shit company. They are butchering one IP after another. I can only hope that at some point they are running out of IPs but they do own a huge catalogue of stuff.