Flashback was one of my favorite games growing up, and it was fun to play it again, but I wouldn't recommend this version. The full price is very steep for what is essentially a port.

The reason I'm giving it a bad review is that the Morph enemies are really, really badly bugged in this version, to the point that it basically ruins the game. In the original game you can learn their moves and defeat them without taking damage if you're good enough. In this version, they can stunlock you endlessly with un-dodgeable attacks until you die, and there's nothing you can do about it but hope that they decide not to.

The hard mode is absurdly over-tuned, it just doubles the amount of enemies and makes them bullet sponges. That combined with the bug I described earlier means that if you want to beat it you're going to have to slog through long, boring fights, occasionally running back to the save point halfway through the battle because you lucked into a situation where you were able to deal damage to one of the six bad guys that attack you at the same time and could each stunlock you to death on their own.

Unfortunately one of the achievements requires you to play in hard mode, so if you care about that sort of thing prepare to be bored and frustrated.

Flashback was one of my favorite games growing up, and it was fun to play it again, but I wouldn't recommend this version. The full price is very steep for what is essentially a port. The reason I'm giving it a bad review is that the Morph enemies are really, really badly bugged in this version, to the point that it basically ruins the game. In the original game you can learn their moves and defeat them without taking damage if you're good enough. In this version, they can stunlock you endlessly with un-dodgeable attacks until you die, and there's nothing you can do about it but hope that they decide not to. The hard mode is absurdly over-tuned, it just doubles the amount of enemies and makes them bullet sponges. That combined with the bug I described earlier means that if you want to beat it you're going to have to slog through long, boring fights, occasionally running back to the save point halfway through the battle because you lucked into a situation where you were able to deal damage to one of the six bad guys that attack you at the same time and could each stunlock you to death on their own. Unfortunately one of the achievements requires you to play in hard mode, so if you care about that sort of thing prepare to be bored and frustrated.