French dev bringing Toki back with HD remake

You are not alone, this game is a cult classic. I'm glad someone remembered it and it's bring it back.

Ah man! this game was a rare find at the arcade, wow, back in or around the late 80's I think or very early 90's. If this comes to xbox live arcade or PSN I hope it has both versions, the arcade port and the remake. Sometimes the HD remakes are just not the same and sometimes they are better, so I like having the option to play the original too! A much better value too when you get the old and new. Looking forward to this!

Dude! Rate up for Greendog!

It wasn't a very good conversion. The levels were completely changed and all the graphics came in two colors... brown and grey. Kind of like most of today's games, really.

You ought to play the Lynx game. It's as close to arcade perfect as the hardware could muster. Even the NES version wasn't bad, although visually compromised.

I would KILL for a remake of Kid Chameleon and oddly enough, Quackshot. But then again I kill for things pretty easily...

Flashback: Quest for Identity anyone? I'd settle for a remake if not for a full blown sequel ala Mass Effect meets Uncharted. :D

I was just thinking of a HD remake of Out of This World. I spent literally months on that game playing it and beating it over and over again.

It's a very fine line between dark and dire.

Have to agree with you about the looks doozer, the arcade original still looks way better than that so-called HD remake.

Ok now you're just winging for the hell of it. If you want a 2D remake that makes everything just look worse, look at the Earthworm Jim Iphone game. What they did there was have some incompetent high school students badly trace over the old sprites, with total disregard of the basic graphical elements that made it good looking in the first place.

What they did HERE with Toki, this is how a true 2D remake should be done. Full of life and soul above and beyond the original. Who gives a shit if it's now celshaded, look at the video and tell me the original doesn't look miles worse. You must think SF3 looks better than SF2. Yegh.

The original Toki is a game from the early days of pixel art, where the only thing their barely capable graphic artists knew was "ohhh we have more colors now so we can make gradients!" And they did. Whether it was needed or not. As you can see in the original footage, any sense of color was absent, the animation was terrible, and everything had this bad "pillowshaded" look to it.

"Ooh look at my art skills wank fest", if that's what you wanna call good art, then hey. Fucking sucks to be you I guess.

What are you talking about? The original looks like ass even by 16bit standards. The new version is the best looking HD remake so far, they vastly improved the look over the original.

Maybe the key to making a good HD remake is to take games with bad pixel art and then just completely redo it without major regards to the style. Trying to remake master pixel work like Earthworm Jim or Street Fighter is just asking for trouble.

Oh man, yes please on New Zealand Story. That game was just bizarre. I'm pretty stoked to see Toki getting such a good-looking remake, I can only imagine what they'd be able to do with killer kiwis.

To be fair, Toki is certainly *not* a bumblebee.