Serren: I've played the original, I've played REminiscence and
I've seen the video and the screenshots for this release. That's plenty enough to make an experienced judgement.
MarkoH01: You've seen the videos and screenshots of this release with some enabled features you can turn off. So no, that's NOT enough to make an *cough* experienced judgement. You simply have not seen the game when features are turned off.
Ghildrean: You can disable most of the things except the shiny street points and a reminder button that you can skip cinematics. Nevertheless, it's not exactly the DOS version, or at least the sound effects are not the same.
MarkoH01: I have to say that I really don't understand the devs here. They even advertize with the fact that "the original" is still available (GOG seemed to have change the game description it seems or I am misremembering) so they must know that there are people out there who would like to play the original as it was back then. Looking and sounding as it did back then. Hard to imagine that this would be impossible. Some would even consider "Choose to play with the original graphics and sounds from the 90’s and face an unforgiving difficulty." to be false advertizing.
Still bought it ... just saying.
Edit: I cannot find
this anymore.
I purchased Flashback for the PC when it came out in the 90s. I purchased this version on GOG a few days ago, I enjoyed unlocking all the street art, but there appears to be no "turn off street art" feature which wrecks the whole retro aesthetic they were offering alongside the updated one.
My solution to this is to simply play the original on DosBox. when I don't feel like looking at the street art points.
I was happy to pay for the remaster. The rewind feature is useful and the tutorials were very helpful to my kid.
I've played through in Spanish and English. The Spanish translation has... oddities but is tolerable (at least to me). I get the sense that it was machine translated. I've read comments that say the German and Italian translations are virtually unintelligible. As I'm writing this on an English language forum I imagine poor translations into non-English languages won't be an issue for most people reading this, but those from.families where some gamers don't speak English may want to read others' comments here and on Steam before purchasing.
