Day of the Tentacle | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:03:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Day of the Tentacle | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Day of the Tentacle HD remaster first look screenshots released https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/day-of-the-tentacle-hd-remaster-first-look-screenshots-released/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/day-of-the-tentacle-hd-remaster-first-look-screenshots-released/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:42:02 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=272925 Even if there is a mild resurgence of point and click titles going on at the moment, the age where that genre of games dominated is long gone. Fortunately though, for those that wish to experience some of that era's most beloved titles, there's HD remastering afoot and soon, this writer's favourite point and click …

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Even if there is a mild resurgence of point and click titles going on at the moment, the age where that genre of games dominated is long gone. Fortunately though, for those that wish to experience some of that era's most beloved titles, there's HD remastering afoot and soon, this writer's favourite point and click title, Day of the Tentacle, is set for a re-release in glorious high-definition. And now we have the first screenshots of how it's looking.

Day of the Tentacle, or to use its full title, Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a – as you might have guessed – 1993 sequel to the original 1987 point and click success, Maniac Mansion. It stars a rather power hungry tentacle and three friends, who travel through time using custom crafted toilets, to attempt to thwart the evil appendage's plans.

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Originally built using the classic LucasArts SCUMM engine, it has a certain pixellated charm today, much like other games built during that period, but I can't help but like the crispness and colour depth of the new HD version.

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Day of the Tentacle was also noteworthy as a title for its inclusion of its prequel as an entirely playable game within the game. Activating an arcade cabinet in a room near the beginning of the point and click adventure can send you down a rabbit hole of its predecessor.

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For comparison purposes, here's a new HD scene compared with its pixellated original source

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KitGuru Says: The game is looking pretty swanky so far. I'm quite excited to give this one a try again. I hope I've forgotten a good few of the puzzles.

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Day of the Tentacle remastering coming from Double Fine https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/day-of-the-tentacle-remastering-coming-from-double-fine/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/day-of-the-tentacle-remastering-coming-from-double-fine/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:37:26 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=225234 A lot of the news surrounding Tim Schafer's Double Fine hasn't been particularly positive as of late. It let some people go due to a cancelled project and it ended development of Space Base DF 9 earlier than expected. However it shouldn't be forgotten that it has an HD remake of Grim Fandango in the …

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A lot of the news surrounding Tim Schafer's Double Fine hasn't been particularly positive as of late. It let some people go due to a cancelled project and it ended development of Space Base DF 9 earlier than expected. However it shouldn't be forgotten that it has an HD remake of Grim Fandango in the works and on top of that, it's just announced that it will also be making a fancy recreation of another LucasArts classic, Day of the Tentacle.

The original Day of the Tentacle, which  came out way back in 1993, was actually officially titled, Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, and featured a playable version of its prequel in its entirety, showing off how much game development had come on since its release in 1987.

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Day of the Tentacle has you trying to stop the ‘evil' tentacle from taking over the world. Obviously. 

Gameplay is much the same as other point and click adventures of that era, with item combining, puzzle solving and plenty of humour. Day of the Tentacle changed it up however, by having three simultaneous playable characters, that operated in different time zones and could only send items to one another via a toilet.

There's been no word on when Double Fine plans to release this remastering, but presumably it will be around mid-way through 2015, as the Grim Fandango remastered version is coming out in January and it was only announced mid-way through this year.

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KitGuru Says: Day of the Tentacle is my all-time favourite point and click from that era. Now I'm glad I haven't played it in a few years as I've probably forgotten a good number of the puzzles by now.

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