Today, BBG Entertainment announced the return of Manic Miner with a release on Nintendo Switch. The game launches this fall. Manic Miner’s Nintendo Switch release is a new take on the 1983 platformer that’s fully authorized by original creator Matthew Smith. All of the twenty levels “have been lovingly redesigned with a modern new look, featuring parallax scrolling and dynamic...
  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
    14·
    7 hours ago

    What is it with classic British games and AI-slop remakes lately? An insult to the original and I genuinely hope they fail.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      I wish I knew. Not only does it come across as low-effort and shady, but it’s like they can’t read the room. How are they so out of touch?

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah, that trailer animation looks very suspiciously sloppy. If they really didn’t use gen AI for the actual game, the trailer is doing it a huge disservice IMO.

    Long ago I knew of a site/forum where people made fan remakes of old games, one of them was Jet Set Willy (Manic Miner’s sequel). Their version had multiplayer.