by I have an unfavorable impression of Double Fine studios. Their first game, Psychonauts, was fun. I haven’t finished it, but it was well put-together and seemed light-hearted and whimsical. Looking through their game catalog, however, I see very few other original games I recognize; exactly two, actually: Brütal Legend and Broken Age.
Apparently, they acquired the rights to remaster Tim Schafer’s previous work at LucasArts: Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle. Both are point-and-click adventure games, and you would think that they would be the least resource-intense games possible. Somehow, however, the remaster of Day of the Tentacle stutters uncontrollably when using the “Remastered” graphics on either of my computers. If I switch between the classic and remastered graphics, it stutters on both modes. This is unacceptable.
Worse yet, the remastered graphics are actually worse than the classic graphics. The charm and very soul of the pixellated introduction playing on top of Ranz des Vaches during an unskippable cutscene has been ripped out and replaced with what can only be called soulless iOS-like graphics.
Not for the game but for the Remaster: Tier Four.