Our collective video gaming memory is a weird thing. Some games from decades past are committed to The Pantheon, where they will be spoken about and remembered for all time. Others, meanwhile, can be some of the biggest releases of their time, only to disappear and never be heard from again.
The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule
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Little Big Adventure is one of those games. Released in 1994, it was a huge deal! It graced magazine covers, earned rave reviews and was notable not just for its incredible isometric visuals, but for its unique art style and puzzle design as well. It sold a ton of copies around the world, but one market it did not do well in was the United States. Which, given the America-centric nature of games writing and criticism, mostly explains the game’s omission from The Pantheon.
It’s lovely to hear, then, that a small team—currently at work on attempts to reboot the franchise—have decided to completely remake both the original game and its sequel in Unreal Engine 5. They’re not doing it solely out of the goodness of their heart, however; they’re doing it to drum up enough interest in the series to help a publisher agree to pay for development on their reboot project.
Everybody wins! We’re getting remakes of two of the coolest adventure games ever made, and if they do well, then we’ll get a new Little Big Adventure game to go along with them.
The first game will have a demo released during the next Steam Neo Fest (June 19-26), with the team’s announcement blog suggesting both games will be out by 2024, the 30th anniversary of the series.
