Both 'Little Big Adventure' Titles Are Getting The Remaster Treatment

This game always reminded me of Baldies on the Jaguar CD and PS1. Would be extremely cool to see that one remastered as well, as it is a pretty good game.

these are GREAT games, warts and all, and these remasters are really gross looking. like seriously if you cant draw and have no taste please leave my old faves alone.

folks you can get these for like pennies on sale on gog and they already look great 👍

"Philippe Vachey's music for both titles will also be remastered."

remastered, or re-recorded? seriously doubt you lot know what the word "remaster" means, sometimes.

I'll await the demo, but I'm not feeling the new look and I worry that the analog controls mean this will be even further from the original.

Edit: apparently they're full from-scratch remakes - I don't trust them to get the details correct https://twinsenslittlebigadventure.com/twinsens-little-big-adventure-remastered/

@-wc- I don't know- Twinsen himself looks like a pretty faithful interpretation of the original model, without looking too awkward (no small feat!), and that dune buggy shot looks like this style has potential.

On the other hand, it bothers me that HD = flatter and more cartoonish, in so many cases. Admittedly, I've barely played the original LBA/Twinsen games, but the fine-grained textures and oddly shiny lighting of LBA2 really appealed to me, and those are lost in the remake.

@gingerbeardman

yeah as i mentioned above, the editors of this site frequently use the word "remaster" when they mean "remake." i agree that this appears to be a remake, and not a particularly artful one. too bad.

edit - okay i see now, the developers themselves are calling it a remaster. My bad, editors. 😅

I'm gonna lose this etymological struggle, arent i?

@smoreon

i appreciate your attempt at optimism, but i just cant see the value here.

this might be the most pointless "remaster" ive seen yet. i cant imagine even wanting to play twinsen without also wanting it to look like twinsen, feel like twinsen. this is not a timeless experience, its like the opposite, in a good way.
(i feel similarly about the numerous myst remakes.)

i cant say ive gotten far in either game but i like to return to this strange world and just kind of "soak it in" again from time to time.

@Damo

rawr 🐅

ps - i saw the words "remastered" all over the place only after i opened my big internet mouth. 🤭

i disagree with this use of the term, but it seems to be the way things are going! it's not on you, though. cheers!

pps - i went ahead and looked it up

" A video game remaster typically has ambience and design updated to the capabilities of a more powerful console, while a video game remake is also updated but with recreated models."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaster

in other words, a remaster has the "levels" tweaked, to optimize for a new format, whereas a remake replaces some of all the actual content with updated stuff. in music, it's called a rerecording.

think of the early 90s "digitally remasted with THX" star wars trilogy vs the later 90s "special editions" with added scenes, cgi, and details changed (greedo vs han and so on.)

anyway thanks for even covering this, this is a pretty obscure game! at least where im from.

@Damo

"Remember when we just used to play 'brand new' games in the 1990s? "

le SIGH. i do indeed. OTOH i was already nostalgic for my NES at age 12 😅 so this is the future i asked for on some level.

you are right about the changing of the times, but this one stings a bit because remasters are generally what i WANT, but all we generally get are remakes. 😖

honestly i miss when we used to just call them "ports." 😅

@-wc- Little Big Adventure is pretty clunky, to the point that someone used to modern standards would be just as well off playing the original Tomb Raider or something. So there is potential to make it more accessible.

But will this remake do so without losing the soul of the originals? So far, this is looking like quite a departure. Time will tell...

@smoreon

well said! ill look forward to returning to these parts to discuss the game when we actually get to play it. ☺️👍 maybe ill actually get somewhere in either game this time, lol.

OMG! I love this game, played the first one on the Playstation when I rented it from a little video game store just down the road from me.
Please bring this to Switch

Because these were designed by the creator of the survival horror masterpiece, Alone in the Dark, they've been on my 'must play' list since forever. I really need to get around to playing them.