Not a nice first impression

[Nimbus]

Movement sucks, one of the things of the original Flashback was the movement. Accurate fast and overall, felt real. This one it's not. At all.
Aimming it's horrible. You cannot see what or where you're aimming and it's not accurate. Found myself aimming at an enemy and the caracter was shooting the opposite direction.
You cannot run and jump at the same time.
The keys are a mess, and you cannot change them (ok it's a demo).
The game showed "Press E to Skip" and nothing happend, Space bar did the job. What?
Then, with "Q" you use medkit, when I pressed "Q", the caracter moved left like if i was pressing "A".
Laser gun? meh, IMO i'd like the pistol and that beautiful and caracteristic sound.
Been waiting this game for so long and i'm dissapointed. It really needs more development, a lot.
Why rushed to publish the demo in this conditions, the issues are not even close to hard to see.
I don't mind waiting another six months or even a year, i've been wainting since "Fade to Black". 1995 guys!

Thanks!

[Revan]

Thats a shame to hear, was looking forward to it, the classic is/was a masterpeace. :(

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Another unnecessary sequel, game was looking terrible since the start tbh.

[Junker-2047-]

The game just looks bad. Ugly 3D, bad voice acting, flash-style story telling, lame story, I can tell the controls are going to be awful/floaty.

Just a fail all around. This IP needs to be handed to a talented studio. Give it to the guys that did ORI.

[Ting]

The worst part is when the game releases it will probably have all of the shader stutter from the demo (which was so bad they took the demo down) even though they know about it in advance!

[Revan]

Yeah..and i didnt even see one dev respodning to anything here, only the news thread, no answers, etc. so no communication with the community at all which is always a bad sign and i honestly also dont understand how and why devs are not more active with their community.

[neospite]

That's no good. I wasn't expecting much from the initial trailer that came out ages ago, and this confirms my fears.

They did the same thing with the new Oddworld game Soulstorm , ditching the classic movement in favour of a more modern style of platforming that has less precision. It's like the developers don't get what made the originals good.

[amrulez]

And the guy behind this IS the original developer, or is that not true? Man I was kind of hoping it would be good, I loved the original game and would love more of that. I loved Another World too, would love more of that as well. It would probably get butchered just like this sequel seems to be, at least so far.

[PopCornFlakes]

Flashback is a classic and its remake was mediocre.
Fade to black has a special place in my heart.The story, ambient , the music, levels etc... , tho it didnt aged well gameplay wise
Wished they remade this one instead .

[American Dove Mitten]

To be fair, it's not so much that Flashback had great design for controls, it's more so that cinematic controls became part of its identity, we like them because they are clunky, not because they are good, and you can't have one without the other.

It's odd that Flashback represents the pick of the genre of "cinematic platformers" that is slowly fading away, and yet one thing this game fails to respect, it's the only thing that actually matters for this game, its legacy of clunky cinematic controls.

You can look into Lunark or Eternal Castle for something more in line with the classic format

[Kharnivore2099]

I just don't understand who this is for. Given they named it 'Flashback', you'd expect Flashback-like game play. This seemingly has none of that.

If you are bringing back a cult classic game, you'd think they'd make efforts to understand what made the game popular in the first place.

[matthew]

Was looking forward to this when I saw the name, I loved the original. This game looks and feels nothing like the original. If this is suppose to be a sequel, it would have been nice if it had the same look and feel like the original.

With less then an hour to go, I will watch and see how it does, but, the 2.5 elements don't really impress me at all.