Lollipop Chainsaw released in 2012, making the game ten years old now, and meaning that if you played that game when you were twelve that you’re twenty-two now, and your taste in video games has probably changed dramatically. The Lollipop Chainsaw remake needs to really appeal to the audience that liked that game when it released but more than anything else, it needs to show that it has grown with that audience.
XIII, Silent Hill HD Collection (arguably more a remaster than a remake, but a disaster nonetheless), Dungeon Keeper Mobile, the list goes on and on and on and on.īad remakes are easy, good remakes are almost impossible because you have to satisfy a specific audience. It takes the metanarrative nature of the remake idea itself and challenges it, making you consider the way that you’re playing it.įinal Fantasy VII Remake isn’t the rule when it comes to remaking games, it’s the fluke in a system that doesn’t usually work. Why Certain Remakes Workįinal Fantasy VII Remake, for me at least, worked so well because it deviated heavily from the original game.
Games like Kingdom Hearts 1, while very much of their time, are so beautiful to me as a gamer that I wouldn’t ever want to see them try to replicate them again, in case they fumble it and make it bad. There are certain games that I’d personally never even think about remaking.įor example, the original Sonic The Hedgehog and the original Super Mario Bros are so heavily ingrained in video game history and in the formation of video games that doing anything with them would feel almost blasphemous, especially given how both series are constantly paying homage to their own heritage. READ NOW: Why Indie Games Continue To Lead The Way For Queer Representation But what makes a game tick? What really makes a remake worth the time? Games such as Final Fantasy VII Remake, Resident Evil 2, and now Lollipop Chainsaw aim to recapture the original audience and bring them back. It used to be that people would remaster and repackage their games in order to resell them to a consumer, and indeed a lot of companies still do (see the recent Sonic Origins package for the best way to mess up what should have been a complete and utter slamdunk).īut companies quickly learned that sometimes that simply wasn’t enough, and people weren’t going to buy repackages forever, and in order to make as much money as possible, they needed to start remaking the games from the ground up. A new Lollipop Chainsaw remake has been announced!
0 kommentar(er)
