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The article is wonderfully technical and full of meaty details, but the stills just don't do the art justice. Here's a long play that gets right into the action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrxk5_PeEY

I can't believe this was done in 1991. It looks perfectly modern and is incredibly gorgeous to look at.

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So one thing to remember - the game looks great. But it is quite frustrating to play, me and a friend fiddled with it for a while and got bored pretty quickly. Watching those playthrough videos will probably leave you with a much higher opinion than actually playing through it yourself.

That was not my experience. I LOVED this game when it came out. It was so different from everything else and the smooth motion was just something I hadn't seen before.

You have much better patience than me, or maybe this just isn't my sort of game. I felt like it was just an exercise in memorizing the right sequence of steps, and found the controls to be a bit fiddly and unforgiving. It's undeniably gorgeous and I wanted to like it because I'd read the various Fabien Sanglard articles, I just couldn't :(

It was a lot like practicing on a piano, just with less keys. Learn the correct sequence, play it back keeping the correct timing, voila. I agree it's a specific mindset, yes.

It's kind of a Dragon's Lair style platformer, really. Twenty minutes of work down the drain because you forgot to push left on time. Pretty standard for its day.

The game might look great now, but when it came out it was mind blowing. We'd watch the intro at parties.

Precisely that. Repeating all the steps to get up to a certain point, trying something different, failing and having to do them all again until you beat that section. Then you get to the next bit, fail and start over.

It reminds me a little of the final(?) map on Super Mario Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nyFu1kud-s. It's probably 5x longer than any other map and any time you "die" you have to start from the very beginning. It took me dozens of attempts to beat it, but for some reason I stuck with it. I didn't fancy doing this with Another World sadly :(

This was one of the first games I actually finished! lol.

I do remember some parts being challenging to time right, but it’s a game… if it was easy it would get boring

the atmosphere of the game was incredible

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