Flashback: Lucy is designed to be impossible to talk about. Remember the first time anybody played a legacy game? How there were sealed envelopes and boxes? That moment players were instructed to look under the insert? Nowadays I reflexively check under there any time a game seems like it might be hiding something from me.

I won’t spill whether something lurks under the insert of Flashback: Lucy, but there are discoveries to be made. The phrase “delight and surprise” is overused, but that’s precisely the emotion the team behind Flashback: Lucy managed to dredge from this leathery old sack.

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