The task of two bodies
The game still takes place on the planet Twinsen, which is located (as you might guess from the name) between two suns. The planet has two inhabited and constantly illuminated hemispheres, so don’t be surprised that the poles look like a desert and the equator is a chain of snow-capped mountains. Twinsan is inhabited by four races: spherical Spheros, human-like Quets, Grobo (elephants standing on their hind legs), and Rabbit Rabbits (no explanation needed here, I think).
The main character of LBA is Quetch Twinsen (no changes here either). He wants to save the planet from the evil doctor (and dictator) Fanfrock.
Fanfrock has mass-produced clones to increase his army and placed teleports throughout Twinsan so that, if necessary, elephants with batons can immediately punish the rebels.
All of the protagonist’s adventures are, in essence, a struggle against the regime, helping the rebels, and regularly escaping from prisons on different islands. Add a dash of magic and trademark humour, and you have Little Big Adventure in all its glory.
The remake didn’t change anything radically, but some new details are surprising, to say the least. First, Twinsen now has a younger sister, Luna.
It is she (and not his beloved) who is kidnapped by Fanfrock at the beginning of the game. Twinsen’s fiancée is also present in the plot, but she leaves him a year before the events of LBA to join the rebels. From a damsel in distress in a pink evening gown, Zoe has turned into a feisty rebel. All their frivolous flirting was cut from the game. The most they get is a kiss at the end.
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References to Twinsen and Luna’s father were added to the story, saying that the characters inherited their magical powers from him. In the original, the hero was simply chosen on his own, and no magical relatives were mentioned.
The expansion of the family made adjustments to the plot. In the 1994 LBA, Twinsen starts out in a prison hospital (he was sent there because of a denunciation: he had prophetic dreams, and Fanfrock tried to get rid of everything magical), in the remake we are first shown a cheerful world before the clones took over, then Zoe’s departure and the rebellious spirit of her sister, who attacks one of the doctor’s soldiers. Twinsen stands up for her and is sent to prison for it.
What is pleasing about Twinsen’s Quest is that almost all of the NPC’s lines have been preserved exactly as they were and, as it turns out, have not lost their sharpness and humour in 30 years. The only thing that caught my eye was the muted theme of sexuality — which is actually surprising for the amorous French! Here’s an example. There is a mini-quest in the game — to get past the guard. In the original, Madame Rabbit seduced him at our request by striking a suggestive pose against the wall of the house. In the remake, the girl asks us to bring her a rebel costume (for this, Twinsen’s Quest replaced the stable with a clothing store), and then simply teases the grave robber in it. Combined with the cut flirting with Zoe, all this suggests that the developers deliberately decided to remove any hints of sex from the game.
An adventure that lasts more than 20 minutes
In terms of gameplay, the new Little Big Adventure is still a quest with platformer elements and fairly frequent battles.
The developers at [2.21] decided to modernise the gameplay a little, abandoning both tank controls and switching between character modes: previously, Twinsen had four modes of behaviour — normal (walking, talking to others), athletic (running and jumping, taking damage from hitting walls), aggressive (actively attacking enemies) and cautious (also known as stealth).
The protagonist can switch from walking to running with a single press of the stick, no longer crashes into walls, and has even learned to do somersaults. Stealth now works with a button in specially designated areas.