French publishing house Microids has officially announced the sequel to the cult platformer of the 90s Flashback…
At the moment, practically nothing is known about the continuation, except for the very fact of development. The project is reportedly led by the author of the original “Flashback” Paul Kisse, and the game will be a platform action movie, the main character of which will again be Konrad B. Hart. Release expected in 2023 on unnamed consoles and PC…
The original Flashback from Delphine Software originally came out in 1992 on Amiga computers. The game was a cinematic action-platformer set in 2142 and told about the intelligence agent Konrad B. Hart, who became a member of an evolving alien conspiracy that secretly infiltrated human society.
The game featured fluid animations, hand-drawn backgrounds, pseudo-3D cutscenes and looked very advanced for its time. It was created using the technique of time-lapse manual image processing, also used in Another World and Prince of Persia.
Notably, Flashback already had a 1995 sequel from the same team called Fade to black… Unlike the first part, that game was a three-dimensional third-person action movie. Also in 2013, a disastrous remake of Flashback was released from Ubisoftand in 2018 the original game was re-released in an anniversary edition on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Switch. Below is the trailer for the reissue.
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