It was one week ago today that we first told you that Paul Cuisset’s classic 1992 cinematic platformer Flashback was making its way to iOS and Android sometime this summer, but today Cuisset and publisher SFL interactive have narrowed that date down to July 22nd, less than a week away! This mobile release of Flashback isn’t just a straight port of a nearly 30 year old game (like what we got back in 2009), as Cuisset himself as the designer of the original has worked directly with SFL Interactive to provide the original experience with some slick modern touches. These will include Post-FX Graphic Filters, Remastered Sound and Music, a Rewind Function, a new Tutorial, and the option for the original control scheme or a new scheme that has been developed specifically for touch screens. Flashback’s remastered mobile release is similar to the remastered releases on console and PC that launched last year. Here’s a newer trailer than the one we posted last week which is more focused on the actual gameplay in Flashback, and also offers a glimpse of the rewind function in action.
Flashback looks great even all these years later, and it’s always so interesting to see how well games with strong design aesthetics can stand the test of time compared to many of their contemporaries of the day. This is especially true of early 3D polygonal games, but even sprite-based pixel art games from the ’90s that I once thought looked mind-blowing look absolutely dreadful to my eyes today. Not the case with Flashback. I feel like its excellent use of color, detailed environments, and especially that rotoscoped animation will always look awesome no matter what year it is. I’m very much looking forward to enjoying Flashback on the go once again when it arrives next week on July 22nd for both iOS and Android at a price of $4.99.
nice game i cant wait !
I have very fond memories of that game It was one of the few games that Sony published in those
days I can remember that the game had incredible great animations and the opening level is so great. I hope that the developers put in controller support because this is absolute essential for this game because there are a lot of platform elements and surprise gameplay fantastic gameplay graphics and story. https://media2.giphy.com/me...
Flashback. I remember back when it first came out. Even then, it looked better than most games that were out, but what I seem to remember most, was it was exceptionally tough! Prohibitively tough! I played it a lot, but never got very far, and soon put it down. Over the years, I came back to it several times, but each time I was reminded why I did put it down, and still felt it was just too hard! So it sat in the corner with Ecco the Dolphin til I finally got around to getting rid of it. Just hearing the word Flashback still right away makes me think ‘oh, WAY too hard!’
So, hearing it’s coming back in any form today makes me feel apprehensive and I will not pick it up right away even though I AM kind of interested in seeing how it goes. If it’s still the same kind of difficulty, I probably won’t pick it up at all!
I don’t remember how hard it was, but I do remember it took a lot longer to complete than its predecessor Another World, but it is a much bigger game.
Love them both.