Misty-eyed game makers still hark back to those days of ridiculously restrictive hardware specifications and – yes – attribute clash: the technical term for the way that the Speccy made animated graphics melt into each other like water colours in rain. if i had the option to give her a three-and-a-half star rating, i would, but since i can't, i'll just round it up to four.Sinclair stopped making Spectrums in 1992, but their legacy lives on. Overall, though, a great step up from the original, with some unfortunate missteps that i know won't affect anything too much.

i know it is a little bit cliché, but i do think a double jump would've been a great addition to round the selection out, but what do i know. speccy feels almost uncomfortably grounded, leaving most if not all movement options close to the ground with little to no verticality, especially with the absence of anything on the double jump.

that doesn't mean i don't have any issues at all, per se, even amongst the positive changes. granted, a lot of those do have more nuance to the moves and in general have wider ranges of options in terms of verticality, but speccy does feel the most fun for my go fast monkey brain. She's a really fun raw mobility kind of character, chaining dives and spamdashes together to create what is probably among the most fun movement of the majority of characters i've played lately. A glowup if i've ever seen one! unlike legacy speccy, which was extremely unfocused in favour of the frankly quite arbitrary RPG mechanics, this remake ditches those mechanics in favour of a very fine tuned and quite fun set of abilities! i'm always a fan of diving, especially if it can be done on the fly and have bonus effects when landing, and the crouch roll is just unabashedly a spamdash.