The Way Remastered

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  • Summary: The Way Remastered tells a story about a member of space explorers team who lost his beloved and cannot accept her death. During one of his expeditions he discovers ancient writings that testify the existence of a method for obtaining eternal life. Hoping to get his beloved back, he decidesThe Way Remastered tells a story about a member of space explorers team who lost his beloved and cannot accept her death. During one of his expeditions he discovers ancient writings that testify the existence of a method for obtaining eternal life. Hoping to get his beloved back, he decides to return to the alien planet. However, the planet hides many secrets and dangers that he must face. … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Nintenderos
    Oct 8, 2018
    73
    The Way Remastered introduces us a man who does not accept the death of the person he loves, and thanks to his experience working as an explorer and researcher, he believes he has found a way to resurrect his wife. The game does not arrive with an impeccable translation into Spanish, and there are small bugs that can complicate the experience of this adventure. However, the game is still an incredible experience that fans of puzzle games will love.
  2. GamingTrend
    Apr 18, 2018
    70
    The Way Remastered is a fun and challenging puzzle platformer. The world is wonderfully crafted and is a sight to behold. The game closing errors and game breaking bug are annoying and ruin the fun. Relying only on autosave can cause problems, as I learned the hard way. Hopefully the planned patch can fix these issues.
  3. NintendoWorldReport
    Apr 30, 2018
    70
    I found The Way Remastered’s presentation to be the most enjoyable aspect of the whole experience. The artwork, music, sound effects, and environments are fantastic. I was shocked at how immersive the experience was, from the beginning’s intense stealth mission to exploring the dark ruins of an alien planet.
  4. Nintendo Insider
    May 10, 2018
    60
    As I progressed, I began to care less and less about Tom, his old crew and his plight. Which is a crying shame considering the opening of the game felt like the writer and developers reaching out and grabbing me by the throat. Discovering alien artefacts and cave systems initially perked me up, but the rinse and repeat nature of obtaining these upgrades wore me down.
  5. Switch Player
    Oct 16, 2018
    60
    The Way Remastered isn't an experience you're going to forget in a while, but it would be markedly improved with more accurate controls. As such, it's more irritating than it is inspiring in its current form.
  6. DarkStation
    May 17, 2018
    60
    The story was interesting with captivating settings and gorgeous areas to explore. The game also featured a great audio design, with some voice acting accenting the strong background music. The puzzles were difficult but fair, and the sense of accomplishment created true highs. But between glitches and faulty control schemes, I found the game impossible to complete, and that makes it hard to recommend.
  7. Cubed3
    Apr 19, 2018
    40
    The Way Remastered is another janky indie game with faux-retro pixel art that misses the point of pixel art. It looks and plays like it was made by amateurs or possibly by some cynical designers who ticked all their checkboxes on what generic indie games are. This is not the worst indie game made - far from it - but it is so bland and plain... so middle of the road and inoffensive, that it is devoid of soul.

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  2. Mixed: 10 out of 40
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  1. Oddfish
    May 19, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just created a metacritic profile for the first time explicitly so I could leave a 10 out of 10 review for this game. It's more of an 8, or maybe 8.5. But it's definitely not a 6.

    I realize- reading the previous reviews- that the version of the game that I played is perhaps a patched edition? I did not experience game breaking bugs in my playthrough.

    I bought this game on sale in the Nintendo Store for about a buck fifty. It was a delight, and a steal. I have strong nostalgic memories of Another World that resonated in this game. Despite some, at times, odd audio-and-text dialogue, the story was compelling and immersive. And the puzzles were intermittently a breeze and challenging. I wouldn't call it a very difficult game, but there were a couple solid challenges. The world building, character design, music score, and overall style were each excellent. And I felt that from reading the other reviews, that the difficulty of Major Tom's controls/movements is greatly exaggerated. I found the game smooth. Plentiful save points balanced out easy and often accidental deaths, which were also often comical.

    I would recommend this game to anyone. And I hope we learn more about the two characters at the end of the story that appear briefly in future games released by these developers.    … Expand
  2. Turyman
    May 28, 2019
    9
    i found this game to be quite an adventure. It is a puzzle-plataformer with great puzzle solving and they're just hard enough to give a goodi found this game to be quite an adventure. It is a puzzle-plataformer with great puzzle solving and they're just hard enough to give a good challenge but not impossible. The story is very straight forward but it definitely intrigues you to want to finish it. I got it for $1.50 so if you can get at bargain price it's well worth it. The graphics are a neat pixel art form and with great sound effects and voice acting. No issue with controls whatsoever.

    All in all its a great indie game that you should add to your collection.    … Expand
  4. prostokvasili
    May 22, 2020
    9
    Great game. Plays a lot as an Another World. Puzzles are great, visuals too.
  5. Kacek1996
    Jan 1, 2020
    7
    Overall a good game with very smooth animations, great pixel graphics, decent plot, sometimes wanky controls. It was a bit short, but for theOverall a good game with very smooth animations, great pixel graphics, decent plot, sometimes wanky controls. It was a bit short, but for the price I got it and with -93% sale it was enough. I recommend this game, it is a good way into puzzle games. Last boss was quite unexpected but after a few tries it became clear what should I do and how many times xDD… Expand
  6. jimparanoia
    Jul 30, 2018
    7
    All in all, a good game flawed only by unprecise and sometimes unresponsive controls.
    Bought for 10 bucks and finished in >24hrs, still    All in all, a good game flawed only by unprecise and sometimes unresponsive controls.
    Bought for 10 bucks and finished in >24hrs, still deserve the experience.

    The good:
    - Style: visually the best pixel art out there
    - Concept and setting: a lot of inspiration from sci-fi classic
    - Story: the struggle of a man that want to rejoin his wife

    The Bad

    - Controls: You will die A LOT cause of controls. Sometimes, they just don't accept your input, sometimes will double it (as happens during the hoverbike section)
    - Ending: I am really really displeased with the ending. It's rushed, and really doesn't fit well in the rest of the story.

    You can still enjoy the game, just wait a discount or sale. 10€ are really too much    … Expand
  7. dredgman
    Sep 16, 2019
    4
    While The Way Remastered has a gorgeous atmosphere with a pleasant ambient soundtrack and cool pixel art design, the controls are slippery andWhile The Way Remastered has a gorgeous atmosphere with a pleasant ambient soundtrack and cool pixel art design, the controls are slippery and imprecise, leading to frequent deaths, sometimes compounded by inconvenient checkpoints. Additionally, many of the puzzles are bland, some of them drawing inspiration from the physical puzzle games Rush Hour and Lights Out, for example. All this is wrapped up with a generic story, centered around the girlfriend in freezer trope, and while the LucasArt-like text on-screen is a nice touch of nostalgia, the voice acting that delivers these lines is stilted. It's a disappointing experience altogether.… Expand
  8. Fcku
    Jan 24, 2020
    0
    Worst game ever I hate it
    I hate it I hate it with my entire heart worst spent money in my life **** this game

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