It’s not very often that a game studio releases an update to a 25 year old video game, but developer 2.21 has made it to Little Big Adventure 2 (opens in new tab)—Released in North America as Twinsen’s Odyssey – to mark its 25th anniversary in June.
The update will bring a number of new features to the game, including:
- Self-centered camera in external mode on / off
- Select language from the menu
- Steam performance
- Steam cloud saving
- Controller support
- Reconnection of input
- New game +
- Windowed Support
The original Little Big Adventure (opens in new tab), released in North America as Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure, gets a virtually identical update, but instead of a camera autocenter switch, it will have a new “hit of walls” switch option. That game was released in October 1994, so it does not celebrate an anniversary – but an update 28 years later is even more of a rarity.
2.21 is not the original developer of the Twinsen games – that credit goes to Adeline Software – but there is a connection. The studio was co-founded by Didier Chanfray, who was also a co-founder of Adeline in 1993. The original goal of the new operation was to push forward with the development of Little Big Adventure 3, but after consideration, the team decided to effectively start over with a restart (opens in new tab) of Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure, which it hopes to have out in 2024, in time for the 30th anniversary of the first game.
Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure Classic and Little Big Adventure Classic 2 are available now on Steam – and for those who prefer the old-fashioned, the original versions of both games are also available as free DLC (opens in new tab). If you are not familiar with the LBA and would like to know what the fuss is about, here is our retrospective 2016 on the “strangely sweet world of Little Big Adventure 2” (opens in new tab)“a” ridiculously charming “game that has held up pretty well despite all the years that have passed.