Review V1CGaming 3/5 · Feb 6, 2023
Great artstyle, funky music, whacky concept..
Day of the Tentacle is back in a fully remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects. Puzzles are the game's true strength. Solutions cross time and items switch hands, and it all somehow manages to flow naturally.
However, Day of the Tentacle Remastered's most functional changes involve alterations to the …
Day of the Tentacle is back in a fully remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects. Puzzles are the game's true strength. Solutions cross time and items switch hands, and it all somehow manages to flow naturally.
However, Day of the Tentacle Remastered's most functional changes involve alterations to the user interface and experience that make the game easier to play. It often pushes hard on jokes that don't quite land. This is most prominent in a puzzle involving left-handed and right-handed hammers, which only manages lukewarm laughs thanks to some physical humor.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered provides a wonderfully crafted recreation of the original game, and Double Fine's streamlining of some of its rougher edges makes it a more approachable experience for modern audiences. But its revisions only go so deep, and can't quite manage to elevate source material that elicits chuckles rather than the riotous giggle fits it clearly expects.
For a remaster I think reinventing the wheel in some aspects was a strong move to the games interface and definitely gets high marks for truly remastering the game in more ways that just visually for the Xbox One.