Microids announced last year that Flashback would be coming to the Switch, but no further details were included. Now that has changed, with the company officially confirming that Flashback 25th Anniversary is heading to Switch in June. There will be a collector’s edition be sold in Europe and Australia, that includes inside is a physical copy of Flashback 25th Anniversary, a retro cartridge style metal case, an exclusive numbered metal card, a 24-page retro-style instruction booklet, and the digital soundtrack (remastered version).
Flashback on Switch will allow players choose between the original 1993 gaming experience and “Modern” mode. The “Modern” mode has in it post-FX graphic filters, completely remastered sound and music, a brand new “Rewind” function that’s variable according to the level of difficulty, as well as tutorials for those who need a boost.
Microids included the following overview of the game’s story:
2142. After fleeing from a space ship, but stripped of all memory, the young scientist Conrad B. Hart awakens on Titan, a colonised moon of the planet Saturn. His enemies and kidnapers are snapping at his heels, and he has to find a way back to Earth while warding off the dangers that beset him and unravelling a fiendish extra-terrestrial plot that threatens the planet…