There’s also an audio commentary that you can toggle when you feel like it in game, where you get some background for the scene and some of the characters. When you switch to the old visual style, even the audio switches. The voice acting has had some tweaking for this remaster in the audio levels as well. Roy Conrad’s performance as Ben is easily the highlight for me. Even the smaller characters like the bartender who has his face rammed into the bar and a merchandise seller in a stadium sound great. I absolutely loved the voice acting in Grim Fandango and the cast here has done a magnificent job. The old school style is also worth checking out just to see how much character the artists managed to get out of visual limitations while keeping the cinematic feel throughout. I did have some frame rate drops in the motorcycle mini game though. Animations are obviously smoother and the game is now 60fps. This is great to see how much has changed while keeping things true to the original art or vision. The remaster lets you switch between the original letterbox aspect ratio with old visuals and the widescreen remaster with the press of a button at any time. There are only a few time sensitive or action based puzzles here that require quick actions or inputs. Puzzles obviously require you to have certain objects which are only found by opening and exploring. Get ready to hear the lovely voice of the late Roy Conrad as Ben say “I’m not putting my lips on that” often if you try and lick random objects like I did. Having the option to kick, grab, or lick/talk to anything results in some interesting dialogue. The mappings are a bit off as the Share button switched between visual styles as opposed to the touchpad for me. There’s a lot of pointing and clicking and the PC version has native support for the PS4 controller which is what I used for a bit while playing it. There’s a mini game or section that basically plays like an older Road Rash (remember where you have to take out bikers with weapons to get new weapons before trying to find a hidden cave?). The relationship and dynamic that exists between Ben and Maureen here reminded me of that between Henry and Delilah in Firewatch. It feels weird referencing newer games when I talk about what is essentially over 20 years old here, but it just goes to show how far ahead of its time Full Throttle was or just how much other games are influenced by it. Ripburger tries to hire the bikers and it obviously doesn’t work out. They stop their limo to hang out with the Polecats at a bar and one thing leads to another before Ben is knocked out. His vice president, Ripburger on the other hand is a scheming evil businessman. When you try and interact with anything, there’re skulls, fists, fire, and more representing actions.Ĭorley Motors is the last manufacturer of motorcycles and the founder is pretty old, but still a biker at heart. This theme extends to the music and the in game interface. This is where the music properly kicks in and I knew I was in for a good time.Įven though there’s an overarching theme of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, this experience is actually set in the future. It even has its Doom moment (like that shotgun syncing with the music in the first level) when the bike hits the limo’s hood ornament. The opening credits are presented really well with some of the main characters introduced by just a bit of talking. You play as Ben, the leader of a biker gang who is narrating what happened before he woke up. I pretty much only remembered the music from the trailer and booted it up mostly going in blind. Full Throttle Remastered is a short but fantastic point and click adventure that totally holds its own today. I had never played Full Throttle either when it released more than two decades ago and seeing the trailer at PSX last year got me excited to check it out. I only got to check out the LucasArts classics when Grim Fandango Remastered released 2 years ago. I was playing Epic MegaGames’ Jazz Jackrabbit, OMF 2097, and more. While the 90s were full of adventure games like Grim Fandango and the likes for many, I never really played any of them back then.
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