16-bit sci-fi classic sequel Flashback 2 shows off its leafy parts in new trailer
Flashback, the classic 16-bit sci-fi platformer from Delphine Software, is, as you probably already know, getting a sequel some 31 years after its original release. And new developer Microids has now offered another look at Flashback 2's action in a new trailer as it prepares for a November release.
The original Flashback, which arrived in 1992, followed the far-flung future adventures of agent Conrad B. Hart on the trail of shapeshifting aliens attempting to infiltrate human society — an investigation that, much like Delphine's earlier Another World, took the form of a strikingly rotoscoped platform-puzzler.
Flashback 2 (which, somewhat confusingly, isn't technically the game's first sequel, given the existence of 1995's not-especially-well-recieved Fade to Black) sees the return of Conrad B. Hart for more space-faring adventures — somewhere in the 22nd century — as he goes in search of his friend Ian. Again.
We got our first proper look at Flashback 2's action in April, and now Microids is back with another trailer, this time showing off the sequel's jungle location that bares more than a passing resemblance to the area that opened the original Flashback all those years ago — albeit now in new-fangled three-dimension-o-vision.
Flashback 2 — which is being developed by the original game's creator Paul Cuisset in collaboration with Microids' Lyon/Paris studios — launches this November on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
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