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Maupiti Island remake is up on Kickstarter
The “hardest adventure game” is back. A game from 1990., remade and released in 2020. that looks like it’s straight from 1999? I’ll take it!
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This looks awesome! Never even heard of the original, but I’ll definitely pick this up when it comes out.
“Look behind you, a three-headed monkey!”- Guybrush Threepwood
I am somewhat intrigued despite the original game id wholly unfamiliar to me. I did check a Youtube video of the original and the most interesting thing I noticed of it was, that it used a terrible speech synthesiser for character dialogues.
Was the original game any good?
Here`s a link to kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cupofgames/maupiti-island/description
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I am somewhat intrigued despite the original game id wholly unfamiliar to me. I did check a Youtube video of the original and the most interesting thing I noticed of it was, that it used a terrible speech synthesiser for character dialogues.
Was the original game any good?
Some would say yes. It has somewhat of a reputation as one of the hardest to solve games ever made.
Good or not, but this remake looks really bleak and dated, both in the game mechanics and the art direction. The original game was very stylish.
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I’ve long been very ambivalent about Maupiti Island. There’s a great game in there, buried beneath ten layers of awful game design decisions. The setting is original, and the way the game blends a complex, interesting mystery with some treasure hunt elements is cool. But all of that is spoiled by awful, awful mechanics that even in 1990 felt horribly outdated.
Unfortunately, the brief gameplay video for the remake seems to have kept a lot of the worst offenders (the real-time progression, the thousands of items to examine), which makes me afraid that the rest (the dead-ends, the constant death scenes, that awful questionnaire to check that players have properly figured out the mystery…) will be included as well.
There’s a great remake of Maupiti Island to be made, one that dares ditch all the bad stuff and keep the good. I’m not sure this is it.
That’s great news, if you’re a masochist
I’ve played the game a little bit (I’m French, we had those long winter nights back in the XXth century), could never get anything that made sense out of it - I guess I’m not obstinate enough. It’s the type where you have to do a certain thing at a certain time in a certain place to obtain a vital piece of information, and the only method of finding out what, where and when is trial and error. So, I guess it qualifies for a “high replay value” award, and I understand the appeal, it’s just slightly too repetitive for me. Still, I have fond memories of it, if only for the graphics (indeed, very stylish), the general atmosphere, the tone (like Cruise for a Corpse, it works much better in French, there’s something akin to classic “bandes dessinées” in the way the characters behave and the narrator comments on everything), and of course the synthetic speech that was already a joke in the mid-90s (however, I hear it was considered “a revolution” when it came out in 1990).
Now about that remake… I wonder how close to the original it aims to be, in terms of gameplay. I agree the graphics look dated, but I don’t mind. It’s tempting, but 25$ for the lowest tier that includes the game is quite a lot, more than I’m willing to contribute anyway.
25 euro for a game I know very little is a tad too risky, especially after reading here what people have said about the original, which sounds like a challenging game from all the wrong reasons. But, as I said, I am intrigued by it, so if they ever do manage to get it done, I’ll check it out.
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