Flashback Switch Review | Nostalgia Nerd
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- I went and got my hands on the Flashback Switch Collector's edition. I paid £34.99 for it. I hoped and indeed, expected it to be good. But as we all know with collector's editions, expectations are rarely met. But still, it's Flashback on Nintendo Switch. It's the 25th anniversary collector's edition and I'm going to play it like it's 1993. Join me for the Flashback Game of 2018.
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thanks for showing this - i cant deal with the terrible graphics filter they use in the Modern mode, glad you can disable it.
Yes, the fact you can disable them is at least, a saving grace.
That game is exceptional for the age, but is very tiring.
Tough one to love
I owned the original Genesis version back in the day. Honestly, I prefer the modern mode shown here. Also it's a shame that they didn't add an option for the Sega CD/3DO cutscenes.
From what i could see it "modern" filters do a decent job of emulating the look of an old gaming setup
Snes had better graphics and music than genesis... glad I played it on the snes
Cant understand how they never noticed that the manual is 1cm too big to fit in the collectors tin! Shame!
they bought it from chinese.
Oohhh year Another World and Flashback on Amiga 500 ... that brings back some bloody good memories 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻. Great upload from my favourite retro reviewer 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I remember renting this on SNES and a buddy renting it on the Sega Genesis and racing to see who could beat it first. I won. lol
Oh my, this absolutely blew my mind when I played it on an emulator a while ago, and I CANNOT believe I missed out on it on the SNES. It's INCREDIBLY dark, moody and dense. Rich detail, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE those rotoscoping animations. It makes the entire thing come alive, without any weird gimmicks.
Flashback blew my mind as a kid...those months i spent battling through the story are so memorable...the graphics were insane and the challenge was tough...i felt like a king when i finally completed it. I spent sooooo many hours in the weird purple levels throwing my teleporter about...going up and down lifts and not knowing what the fuck to do most of the time..!!
jdgonzo1982 yup same here. I played that game non stop for weeks. I was much younger then. Have great memories with it.
Oh dear. When publishers mess up a collector's edition. At first I was quite jealous of everyone's photos, but now I'm happy I missed out on this one.
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@@creepsomber He's just stating the facts moron.
Confused why they'd include a SNES cart thing in there since ...the SNES was the worst version by a country mile. Between the censorship, constant slowdown/poor performance, missing sounds and music ....it's the worst version to play or reference.
Trying to call this a remaster is a sham, slapping filters on it and calling it a day doesn't solve anything. Another World got properly sorted with better visuals through actual touch-ups and it looks great. This ...feels like they took the ol' ROM, threw new audio onto it, some filters and threw it out the door.
Why, why is Flashback one of the best step-platformers ever made and yet it gets the WORST treatment by pubs/devs? The remake was crap, the remaster isn't looking great.
I love the game, the port isn't looking to be anything less than a massive disappointment.
Snotnarok yeah, you cant do the thing they did with another world with this, because this was pixel based, not vector.
They could have touched up the visuals regardless, not all of Another World was vector. They managed to make it widescreen and increased the background detail. I'm not just referring to the sprites. I like pixel art, a lot. I'm not asking them to alter that but they could have easily touched it up past the limitations of the hardware from the time.
They called this a remastered title and have done nothing to it but add filters you can find on any emulator.
I'm not asking them to remake the game, because that was already a disaster but this game didn't get touched up much- at all. They need to give a reason for you to fork over $40+ and there's not anything here to encourage that.
The Genesis/MD version looks as good and if the lag he mentioned is accurate? Then this really isn't worth buying at all.
Well, this is the Switch version. I doubt Nintendo wanted another rival's "cartridge" in there.
Sonic Mania's Collector's Edition comes with Sonic both standing on a Sega Genesis console that blurts out "SEGA" when you hit the power switch; as a large statue, it comes with a Sega Genesis cartridge that you open to reveal a ring.
So, yeah. I don't think that's accurate. Nor would it help this mess of a port at the end of the day.
Honestly, I think re-releases of certain games like this can be pretty pointless. They lose that mystique they once had as software that pushed hardware limits or accomplished graphical or programming feats previously thought impossible on the platforms of the time. At the end of the day, the game we love is still in there but the original feeling of the experience can never be duplicated so slapping on visual filters and other nonsense is really all they can do.
This was such a great game on the Amiga and Megadrive. Maddening but addictive. But this? It doesn't seem necessary nor like it's going to sell well. Who's the target audience supposed to be?
I'm glad I've seen your review...
I guess I'll stick to retropie. I'm even close to selling my amiga 600 and consoles now as I have no space / too many kids, depending on how you look at it.
I checked and you can't sell kids on ebay.
Lassi Kinnunen are there really 10,000 switch owners who also are fans of retro games who also remember this era and maybe also played this exact game and are nostalgic for it and dont already have a way to play it? Because that's really really niche. I sort of hope that the game succeeds, despite its flaws, because of what it represents, I just want there to be enough of an audience to want games like this, you know?
LazyRobot
LMAO, you're right. Scalpers can't even get rid of the CE because of how bad it is. Ebay prices are close to Amazon prices right now.
Played a lot of this on Amiga way back when.
I was looking forward to this. Flashback is one of my favourite games of al time but, as it is, I'll stick to the Megadrive version.
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meh , if you ask me they should have added in the modern version the Sega CD version, that has CGI and FMV movies ...then this fugly "Super Sai x2" filter... to me its a awful milking of a old IP ... if your wondering how the SEGA CD version looks like ruclips.net/video/u5mtdJ65MrQ/видео.html
Why is there an "8-bit mode"? Shouldn't it be 16-bit?
The amiga uses 8-bit samples.
What an awesome game this was!
It still is an awesome game!!
Can't wait to see the collectors edition in Ashen's next "Video Game Tat" video.
I loved this game when I was in high school. I bought it on Nintendo's eShop for $5.00. So far it's been a great trip down memory lane.
It's 99 cents now
One of my most favorite games ever. On Sega Meg Drive it was like a miracle - was playing it for months and it seemed so complex and long. So sad that fade to black was no way close in any aspect
Played this game on so many platforms! PC and Genesis/Megadrive are the best conversions IMO. This game is still on my my all time best game-list. Thanks for doing a video about this game. Thumbs up from Sweden!
I still have my Flashback t-shirt that came with a limited Amiga version, man I played this game to death.
By the way, Another World (and probably this game too) has incredibly sophisticated game engine not similar to any traditional programming approach for 2D platformers. It allowed the huge amount of animation to be packed in such a small size binary. It's kinda vector graphics combined with bitmap backgrounds. Google it, it's very interesting stuff.
Man this game is my childhood so much nostalgia in this video, thank you for uploading this.I use to race to my local blockbuster and rent this game for weeks at a time just to try to complete it and damn was it friggin hard as hell! I never dis get to finish but got pretty damn close to it! I love your channel please upload more like this. 👍👍😉😃
That's an awful lot of unneeded packaging, I agree that a floppy like box would have made far more sense :D
The release date for the original was only *just* 1992, the first release was nov/december 92 but that does mean regardless at the time of this vid you are still right with 25 (and a bit :D) years :)
If it makes you feel any better about the screen, my nomad may as well be turned off in the sun :D
Sega Cartridge makes even more sense.
I managed to get a limited edition knife whose serial number matched my birth year. It made me happy.
I'm surprised it ever ran on the snes, another world was abysmal compared to the fluidity of the amiga and megadrive version....amiga forever btw :)
Back then, it had too much lag on the input due to the smooth animation. I never made it to level two 😅
7:10
I prefer the real graphics.
>Turns off some needless graphic enchancements...
I said the real graphics.
>Turns off all the needless graphic enchancements...
Perfection!
The case is a SNES cart? Sacrilege. Shoulda been a Mega Drive cart.
I think I'll stick to the Amiga version for now.. it's a shame they didn't add new levels or such. Maybe the 50th in 2042 will be better.. can't wait! Rewind and the portability is nice, though :)
Honestly, with the Nintendo Switch, it's really the portability that makes it worth it over most other platforms. I know it isn't a VERY portable console but I can't easily whip out a PS4 or the like on the train.
Since you mentioned portability, I'll point out that I played this game frequently on the Sega Nomad, a portable Genesis/Mega Drive system. I still very much prefer the Genesis/Mega Drive port, but the Mega CD version is enhanced with CD music, voiced dialog (which was also in the Amiga and PC versions) and pre-rendered video over the vector animated cutscenes
New levels would of been far more welcome that that abomination of a remake and probably cost less to make.
I remember playing this on a store kiosk years ago at Electronics Boutique (later known as GameStop here in the states). FB was not an easy game, the platforming, level design, audio and graphics were amazing back then. It is fun to it return, bummer it has issues. Oddly enough I never owned a copy of the game. So I never played it straight thru. Sadly I do not own a Switch, but also heard that this CE was Europe only. Sigh, remake I heard was rubbish. Just cannot win sometimes.
Lassi Kinnunen that is one reason, money, and it was a limited release. I never knew about this anniversary till recently. Nothing was advertised for stateside.
Lassi Kinnunen I just looked up Amazon, and apparently it will have a US release as well. Odd though they released it in an offbeat way for Europe. I really wished that they put the collection together better.
I got it at release as well, 33 euro well spent. Finished it on normal the same day. Good old times. Could not notice the lag you are talking about, it felt exactly like the PC version or SMD version, let's say the game always had typical controls, where you e.g. need to push UP a little bit earlier than the end of the ledge while running for Konrad to make the big jump. I am happy with this edition. Did not realize that the booklet does not fit the metal case. That is just typical... French? C'est la vie. :)
have you ever played the CD-i version of Flashback?
Glitter Jugend there's a CD-i version? We need to get Wrestling With Gaming to play it on his next stream
John Rogers
ruclips.net/video/oKuX18Se5tk/видео.html
There's a CD32 version too which has a terrible small size FMV intro. Then after that you get the original intro which looks so much better.
*shudders*
Nostalgia Nerd
truly, it isn't half bad.
let me rephrase that:"it's not the worst game on the system."
never mind, somehow, reading that again, it doesn't sound any better, does it...
i'll get me coat.
I don't know bout you guys, I played this on an emulator and I realised I need A LOT of patience to play it.
I would love to see you do one of these docu style videos on whatever happened to the Atari Lynx (pretty sure game gear played a role). Keep up the great work!
Flashback was, first and foremost, a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis game. Other platforms (yes, even Amiga) were basically ports.
kosmosyche even though it was developed as Mega Drive game it actually came out on the Amiga first which was kind of weird.
The developers of Flashback have said that they think the Mega Drive version is the best, as that's the system they made the game for, even though it was released on multiple systems and was released for Amiga before Sega's system, as you said.
Duplicating discs is faster, cartridges required Sega to approve the game and then produce the carts.
6581punk ahh makes sense 💾
I played this on Amiga because this was on magazine cover-demo floppys, everyone could see the intro on their screen and you had to get the full version. :D
Why can't they just release a definitive version of Flashback? The superior music of the Sega CD version, and the video quality of the PC/3DO versions.
My dad had this on the sega genesis and he had a bugged copy where the ship would never come and pick you up at the end no matter what he did. I have great memories as a little kid of watching my dad play this.
For something physical as a value i believe its good they give it on greece for 40 euros,compare it with other games such as the SF 30th anniversary which they have it on switch for 50 rather 40 like ps4 release.Seriously 50 because it is for the switch version some times i wonder for how stupid they think we are! Anyway i liked allot the packaging & all and the metal snes case,too bad that the manual & such doesn't fit.But i was wondering though for which version it was as well.Because friends of mine said that the pc-amiga version was superior from the 16 bit systems & such.As i heard on the video it is the snes version and its pretty stupid that they didn't include also the pc original as well.Since you nintendo dolts actually worked on a anniversary collection you had the luxury i guess to also include all versions! But i guess its easier waiting for those millions from the 40 dollars you collected from all around the globe.
Now I kinda want to see Heart of Darkness getting a new release with that delicious rewind feature.
Wow....one of my all time favorite titles. Was given a shitty collectors pack. P.S. I see you're playing on easy mode....bwahahaha
I'm glad someone else pointed out the manual, I'll stick with my Acorn Archimedes version!
A rewind function but not a rebind function..
Having the wrong controls so I can’t even play the game like on a Snes controller 🤦♂️ even in 2023 games still a balls remaster barely touched by the devs
Right from the off it didn't look good. That cover picture was a bad choice, they should have had had Conrad on the cover, not one of the many objects you pick up along the way.
The ordinary edition had a better cover picture.
I don't like the reworking of the music either.
The only thing that sucks is that even the European version comes with the fucking ugly US SNES cartridge design :/ Dealbreaker....
They didn't even bother to use the Amiga version of the theme. I made the mistake of buying the PS3 version, and it was crap.
Don't bother buying this inferior version of the Amiga classic.
Thanks for the review, shame it seems like a poor purchase choice.
Best unboxing ever. Shows how half-assed the collector's edition materials are. SMH
They really should have remastered this properly. Redone sprites to take advantage of the extra resolution. Redone backgrounds. It wouldn't have taken much of a team to pull it off. What we have here is just a cash grab.
If I wanted this in a mobile form I'd just run an emulator on an android tablet and call it done. The benefit of the Switch is that its controllers are so low latency. It's a shame you can't hack it to run what you want as every tablet on android no matter what controller you use (even dedicated hardware ones that connect phyisically to the device) they have too much lag for twitchy games. Its why I've never really bothered to try and make a decent portable gaming system with android.
Not sure if Apple has that same problem with ipad/controllers. They seemed to solve the latency issues with audio which is why pretty much all the best audio software runs on ipad and hardly anyone is available for android.
I was 12 years old when this game came out in 1992... Yes... I am that old and probably going to die soon. O_o
no you won`t, I was 25 ................ and I`m still here .......heh heh
Noiselab Project
Yeah LOl same here. Millennials are funny.
...Since when was anything about Flashback's original soundtrack "8-bit"?
This game should have come in a collector's box shaped like the holocube. Missed opportunity there, guys.
It was a cheap ass lazy port or emulation of it slapped on a switch cartride with added filters to it and call it the day, it was clearly rushed including the manual,$35 maybe not sound that much for such limited edition, but this was clearly a lazy efford along with laggy controls, it will be only great for collectors & those ones who missed the oppertunity backthen to play it.
ANYONE ELSE DO LIKE I DID & SELL YOUR SWITCH AFTER JUST 1 WEEK & BUY A MUCH, MUCH, MUCH BETTER TABLET FOR PORTABLE GAMING INSTEAD?? Lol. Seriously, especially for the price, the Switch is GARBAGE! I bought mine about 8 months after its Australian release & there were probably less than 10 games total for it! That combined with what this video shows that you CANT EVEN USE IT IN PUBLIC like it was specifically Marketed & Made for & the fact it ran sooo damn hot! I bought a Microsoft Surface 2 Pro 8gb which plays ANY game & is 1,000x better!
The soundtrack for this is not what I expected. I like the Sega Genesis and Amiga and Sega Cd versions (and one song on the SNES.
I've just completed this version (I too got the collectors edition) and I agree with everything you said about the collectors edition. worst then the scanned control pages are the ones with screen shots, they look like a blury mess. Thankfully the game is still great! Just wish it had the option of the Amiga music and sound effects as they were so much better then every other platform.
Interesting, I didn't know this was a thing on the Switch. Shame there's no Mega CD soundtrack option here though, that would have been a really nice bonus.
Got the Original Game 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive. Absolutely Loved It Since the First Minute. A Few Years Ago I downloaded the PC Version, and Now I have the Ps4 25th Anniversary Edition. Feels Like The First Time Again...🥰
for me it's a PC game, that's the platform I associate it the most.
I love the game but I could never get past the reality show stage, that one is too hard.
In Spanish that's called "un cúmulo de despropósitos"
publisher...MICROIDS..........AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the manual looks half asses, you don't say.
I have to say that it is really depressing that Delphine Software International never had another hit once this game shipped, they made that living abortion called Shaw Fu and then made some motorcycle racing games until they died off. What a lame way to go out. Paul Cuisset who came up with Flashback then made that awful game called Amy in 2012..these lads are cursed or something.
Attention to detail has fallen off the wayside since the 90s basically with everything. So many people just DONT CARE. It sucks...
A game developed for Sega Mega Drive, first released on Amiga in 1992, by a French studio gets a 25th Anniversary release in 2018 on Switch based on the Super Nintendo version with the European box art and title but with a North American SNES cartridge. I'll skip this one. Loved Flashback on Amiga and Mega Drive.
You have savepoints in the game. WTF do you need "rewind" for?
Did this version fixed the bugs, especially the wall-clipping bug ?
I thought about getting this, but after watching your review I do not see benefit to getting it now. I have it on SNES and Genesis. Honestly, I kind of wish it was Delphine classic package with AW and AW2 along with Flashback. For $35 just seems to expensive for a port with a few filter options; audio update, and reverse.
2142 AD and Agent Conrad is still dressing like an early 90's TV cop with brown leather bomber jacket, baggy jeans and white trainers. Kids today are dressing in a mish-mash of the worst 80's and early 90's clothing, so I guess it's no surprise that by the mid 22nd Century things are likely to be any different.
Poor and pointless packaging.
A rewind function, a testament to the ability of modern video game players.
From the looks of it annoying controls.
Annoying filters.
The problem with the save modes is also irritating.
NO, this isn't worth it, I will stick to the Sega C.D. Version.
Thanks for the review. I'll save my cash. Have a good day.
I used to have that on my Amiga, great game.
Appears to be a kind of "Fast Cash-In" type of "Anniversary Edition"... The good parts are the ability to turn those filters off and the rewind ability (and well, maybe those new musics). I have to wonder, when they did opt to make tin case and instruction manual, how did they fail them so miserably? Oh well...
Wait you're bothered by simulating a CRT in a 16:9 perspective? I find this weird, considering I had a 16:9 CRT for years.
Good music. Is the remastered soundtrack available separately?
Thanks. Picked it up for 15 on ps4 and 18 on the switch. Avoided the collectors edition like the plague. Definitely not worth the extra $22.
I never played the original, so somethings everyone seems to be ok with (even enjoy them) are completely shocking to me. Especially, the controls. They are broken. I would have really appreciated if they would have taken the time to fix those garbage controls. They are untolerable. I bought the game in a sale and I think I paid like 50 or 60 cents, but I completely regret my purchase.
This was painful to watch, Not because of you but because of the thrown together Anniversary packaging. I’ll stick with my old school cart. Thanks for posting this!
The comic and the whole Galaxis Bureau of Investigation stuff should be stricken from the canon. Paul Cuisset quotes Conrad was inspired by Marty McFly? This collectors edition while nice in concept was not greatly executed. The game is now for sale on Android for a fraction of this price as well.
Swithc is so damn weak it can't even emulate flashback properly. How damn sad. Too bad Gimtendo focused on gimmicks rather than hardware.
#BoycottGimtendo #NoMoreGimmicks
It took me until 6am to complete the last level .. on a school day. It was that day I learnt I could of just glitches through the door
Brilliant game. But as usual, Nintendo Switch version is way overpriced. This should be a £10 download at most. Yet people are still willing to put up with being ripped off just because it's on a certain platform.
09:45 - 10:25 ""It's all to easy to press one of the buttons that unsheeves your weapon, this then reverses the action"" ""Responsiveness isn't up to the original games standards."" Why re-release a classic game but mess about with the gameplay and controls when there's nothing wrong with the gameplay in the first place? SEGA have been doing this shit to Sonic games for years and look where that got them.
No widescreen support? Wow!!! What a lazy work for 55 £..... . Just rom, running on emulator. Thanks for the video, so i know to avoid it
Rocked it on SNES without problems on hard and currently paying it on an Jaguar Emulator on easy . No problems at all. All the muscle memory is still there : 😂
lol they already want 80 bucks for this on ebay.. i'll buy it on the eshop currently on sale for 15 or whatever it is.. I only need to play through it once.. I just don't feel this will suddenly ramp up value like retro games do. I mean the switch version won't. What do you think?
Really its not a Amiga Game, the base develop platform its Megadrive, but its show in the market later because Sega dont want to the deliver Delphine software a bigger cartridge to fit the whole game.
You have an interview with Paul Cussiet in RetroGamer talking about that issue with Sega and the development of the game. If they want ot be accurate with the 25th anniversary ed they had to make a MegaDrive Cartridge better than the USA Snes one.
Played the game on the PC back in the days. Never finished it. Didn't realize it has such a cult following to warrant a 25th anniversary re-release on Switch.
I think they just found the open source flashback engine and make money from that cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/ this source support Amiga sounds with PC Mac or Amiga resource files
'Thicker than a blancmange' haha brilliant !! - You should send it all back and state you want this done properly...after all it is a 'Collectors Edition'
I had Flashback on the PC and I never finished it. It's one of those games that I need to play again and beat it. I liked it so much I haven't even cheated and watched a play through to see the ending or anything. Also, I remember getting this game on my brand new PC and wondering why there was no sound (I needed a sound card). Fucking old PC's! And that thing wasn't cheap for the time!
Never played/had this game. I am surprised it is not related to Impossible Mission in any way, got similar vibes, with the running style and electrocuting robots that look like Daleks haha.
I find it odd how they didn't try to up the resolution like the anniversary version of Another World... Then again nearly every remaster that's done nowadays are just games running on an emulator with a couple texture, and filter mods.
I guess it's to be expected for devs nowadays to not have passion when creating remasters.
They said that they went for the SNES version when making this port. It's hard to imagine that since they controls are reversed from the SNES version. It really sucks that you can't rebind them the way you want. I asked Microids to do that when it came out, but they haven't done it yet.
That 8-bit sound option does not make any sense as Flashback never had any 8-bit version. This retro-craze is getting way too gimmicky.
White shirt and green Morphs. What's so hard about that?
Not buying this until the original colors are an option.
What was wrong with the Ubisoft version? It was a really nice remake, I found it as fun and more playable than the original. Hell you could even play it in the original mode in game(that was about the worse part of the game)
The only reason this game is hard is because its a broken mess. Why is this game so popular with people??? If it wasn't for the art and story this would go down with E.T. on Atari.
Ugh... Majorly disappointed by the fact it didn't have the snes soundtrack which in my opinion is alot better!
As an American I'd prefer this to be a smooshed Sega Genesis cart but I'm a sucker for blue snes carts. Pretty disappointing to hear you can't store the manual in either case. How could they botch that up?
I don't get why the new soundtrack? There was already a fantastic CD quality soundtrack produced for the CD consoles of the day.
because you have to change things...just because.
I guess they felt like doing something more than a dodgy collector's edition of the game's Switch port, or they forgot about the older cd quality soundtrack.
+Lassi Kinnunen I know, I was thinking of the PC version.
+Lassi Kinnunen By PC version I meant ms-dos version. I also agree with that saying it's retro thing.
I appreciate your pointing out that the tin was based on the NA SNES cartridge because it, well, really didn't look much at all like one. Was there a special edition that color, and with that label? I see the vague resemblance to an SNES cart with the ridges on the sides and the layout of the label and the two areas below the label, but still, I would have had no idea if you hadn't mentioned it.
Excellent game. I had it on the cd-i. As a kid I found it a little complex.
I'm giving this more time than I ever did the original. I've left the bloom filter enabled but everything else is off. It's only the manual size that really annoys me. Otherwise I'm happy to have the collector's edition
I never really got into Flashback. I thought it would be the next Another World, but I was sorely disappointed.
L4r5man preach!!!!
Agreed 100% I borrowed the PC copy from a friend, and outside of the animated opening found it to be a bit meh when I had already played games like Wolfenstein 3D, and Rise of the Triad.
my exact feelings too, but the game growed on me, in the end i quite liked but not as much as AW