Let's have a moment of nostalgia (which is, after all, the reason we're looking at the 15th anniversary edition of an old game). Back when Another World first appeared on the trusty, beloved Commodore Amiga (PC gamers may remember it as Out of this World), it looked the business. The then-terrific opening animation was widely distributed through the public domain system and was regarded as a great example of the multimedia capabilities of the machine. Back then our jaws dropped. Today they don't.

That, friends, is the grim reality behind Another World. As someone who raced out and bought it off the back of that public domain demo all those years ago, your reviewer can remember the anticlimax back then when the game behind it all was disappointingly standard. Not bad, just a run-of-the-mill platform game in radiant clothing.

Sadly, you can probably tell where this is heading. While there's an element of fond reminiscing when said intro plays again, that only gets you through one play. It's right that things have moved on since then, but only when you see something that looked staggering long ago does it really bring home just how far things have changed. And without what was it's key selling point back then, Another World renders itself unworthy of a 15th anniversary fuss. Better games' birthdays have passed, after all, without the blink of a tear-filled eye.

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It's not, to be fair, a straight repackaging of the game, as some concession has been made to the passing of time. Not much, though, as the sound has been remixed and the visuals - rudimentary though they are - are available in high resolutions. The disc is then filled out with 'making of the game' material.

But sadly, the game itself, even at a £9.99 price point, is where things go to pot. There's too much trial and error, little in the way of innovation and, surprisingly, not an awful lot of actual fun. It's the first point that ultimately leads to the latter: when you rely on leaps of faith at the end of one screen onto the next in order to progress, then something's not right. Maybe it was justifiable when scrolling involved a higher proportion of the computer's resources than it does today, but perhaps the most respectful update the game deserved was to address that key issue.

And so, even though it feels a little like kicking a puppy, the 15th anniversary of Another World is perhaps an occasion that shouldn't be marked by a dip into your wallet. Dig your Amiga out instead, or an emulator, replay that opening demo and keep the rest of your memories intact as they are. Have a game of the superior Flashback while you're there, too.

Important at the time, outdated today. An unfair game whose visuals fail to lift it to the prominence it once enjoyed.