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Day of the Tentacle Remastered Reviewed

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/PS+Vita/Day+of+the+Tentacle+Remastered/review.asp?c=69462

RPS review is in and it’s goooood!

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/03/21/day-of-the-tentacle-remastered-review/

I’m not sure I like the new, smooth look of the game. Which is strange really, for someone who dislikes the retro-trend as much as I do. I’m very much looking forward to replaying DOTT though.

Mr Underhill - 21 March 2016 04:46 PM

RPS review is in and it’s goooood!

I’m glad JW wrote a positive review. BUT it contained spoilers again. BUT his info sucks again: A game that for the better part of the last decade, has been near impossible to buy or play. Nonsense. It’s been available at amazon.com and sites like ebay for as long as I can remember. And has the guy never heard of ScummVM?

Karlok - 22 March 2016 04:21 AM

I’m glad JW wrote a positive review. BUT it contained spoilers again. BUT his info sucks again: A game that for the better part of the last decade, has been near impossible to buy or play. Nonsense. It’s been available at amazon.com and sites like ebay for as long as I can remember. And has the guy never heard of ScummVM?

But have those been OFFICIAL releases or just someone selling the used version of the game. There’s a difference you know. And existence of ScummVM doesn’t mean that everyone will use it or even wanted to, as a lot of people see installing additional apps in order to play something an unnecessary step that should be taken by the game developers and or retailers.

tomimt - 22 March 2016 04:44 AM

Karlok - 22 March 2016 04:21 AM

I’m glad JW wrote a positive review. BUT it contained spoilers again. BUT his info sucks again: A game that for the better part of the last decade, has been near impossible to buy or play. Nonsense. It’s been available at amazon.com and sites like ebay for as long as I can remember. And has the guy never heard of ScummVM?

But have those been OFFICIAL releases or just someone selling the used version of the game. There’s a difference you know.

Official rereleases, both new and used, are available at amazon. The original release is not rare at all either.

And existence of ScummVM doesn’t mean that everyone will use it or even wanted to, as a lot of people see installing additional apps in order to play something an unnecessary step that should be taken by the game developers and or retailers.

If JW had written what you write, I would have been fine with it. But he didn’t. Near impossible is not good info.

Okay, I’ve given DoTT remaster a quick spin and boy, does it sound and look fantastic. The cleaned up and remastered voice acting sounds just as good as it would have been recorded just for this new version of DoTT. Now, even more then ever, hearing the voice acting in the quality it’s now, it makes me a bit sad POS didn’t have access to uncompressed voice files from the original for their Gabriel Knight remake.

The newly orchestrated music is fantastic as well, but if you prefer you can switch the old midi tunes on.

The graphics look just sweet. There’s a bonus gallery with original sketch art in it and I must say these newly redone graphics looks just as I’d imagined the game look like if the tech back then would not have forced them to do the game with pixel art. The high resolution animations look pretty nice as well, considering they didn’t add any additional frames into them. But again, if you prefer, you can switch all to pixel form. But I do need to add, that I did try the pixel art, and while it’s just as it has always been, for me the new HR work looks just better.

The new UI is what you’d expect from a modern adventure, but instead of having only two actions for each hotspot, you’ll get all that would have worked with the original verb UI as well. But, again if you prefer, you can switch to the original verb menu.

The best thing about all this is, that the only forced remastered feature is the high quality voice acting. That’s the only thing you can’t switch to the compressed original, which isn’t a loss. The new system allows you to very liberally switch between the remastered system you want, so if you want to, you can play with the original pixel art but with new UI and so on.

All in all, Double Fine did great job with this. It’s the same game as before, but in polished form. I’d say this is a bench mark for other remaster out there, especially in how it allows you to switch between new and old features.

Sounds great! I’m going to try it later today. Yeah, the voiceacting was terrific.

PS: Just two more days till Samorost 3 is released. 

Also, I know it was confirmed, but I want to reconfirm it: Maniac Mansion is indeed included (and it works just as it should).