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It told a dystopian tale that blended a playful wit with loftier, adult themes and established itself as a middle ground between that of the tones present in other titles dominating Point-and-Click in the 90s.

Its acclaim has persisted and even grown over the years (in part due to freeware and remastered editions, which are widely accessible on modern hardware, and highly recommended to check out) but now, after a 25-year franchise hiatus, it's making like Corey and Topanga Matthews, and everything else that was once held dear.īeneath a Steel Sky is noted for being a creative collaboration between Revolution Software co-founder, Charles Cecil, and celebrated 2000 AD and Watchmen artist, Dave Gibbons. Revolution Software's second ever Point-and-Click adventure, Beneath a Steel Sky, released in 1994 on MS-DOS and Amiga platforms that are, as the kids would say, by now, ancient artefacts. Ergo, revisiting the tangible can kill an intangible memory. Trading it in - in exchange for something that doesn't feel quite the same or even something much, much worse: mundane. There is a risk of stripping back the rose-tinted romanticism of what once was and will never be again. The chasm that divides nostalgia and reality is not a trifling matter. And this is the context in which long-time coming Point-and-Click sequel Beyond a Steel Sky finds itself. Because they were, weren't they!? Along the way, there have been hits and there have been misses but, regardless of the perceived outcome, the danger in revisiting dormant IP is forever present. Whatever the people want, or can scantily remember, so it shall be likely a result of an audience recently bestowed with spending power and the creators that make the games, both longing for a return to simpler, better, more innocent times at Ridgemont High.

Even *gasp* Medievil was subject to the remake treatment in 2019 and again, as this very sentence is being written, a new Monkey Island is announced and situated on the horizon from originators Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman. Spyro the Dragon, Shenmue, Ghostbusters, ABBA, Inspector Gadget, Inspector Morse, Bill, Ted.

Everything that once was is back again or is, at least, fairly likely to make an imminent comeback.

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