I'd been excited about Shatter Remastered Deluxe for months, but only after its release did I learn thanks to other users that it's not a remaster of the original but rather of a mobile port. Why anyone would choose to take such a circuitous path for a modern re-release of this arcade classic is quite beyond me, but the result is obvious and predictable.
I made a back-to-back comparison of the original 2010 Steam version of Shatter and this new "Remastered Deluxe" release, and it's a clear downgrade. Everything simply looks and sounds cheaper and thinner, and there's a bizarre and unforgivable choppiness to performance. I waited 12 days before testing to allow time for patches while staying inside the refund window, and it's still a dramatic disappointment.
Shatter is a wonderful game, but this is not the version of it that you should play. Buy the 2010 release on Steam for two bucks, give its .xml file a quick edit in Notepad to cover your modern resolution, and enjoy a vastly superior product to this so-called remaster.
I made a back-to-back comparison of the original 2010 Steam version of Shatter and this new "Remastered Deluxe" release, and it's a clear downgrade. Everything simply looks and sounds cheaper and thinner, and there's a bizarre and unforgivable choppiness to performance. I waited 12 days before testing to allow time for patches while staying inside the refund window, and it's still a dramatic disappointment.
Shatter is a wonderful game, but this is not the version of it that you should play. Buy the 2010 release on Steam for two bucks, give its .xml file a quick edit in Notepad to cover your modern resolution, and enjoy a vastly superior product to this so-called remaster.