These days, when a classic adventure game gets a Remastered release, that typically means an upgrade in the visual department, and that surely is the case here. What is great is that even though the visuals are smoothed out and upgraded, the unique look that is Day of the Tentacle is fully preserved. The visual style of the game is all about off-kilter, exaggerated set pieces with odd perspectives and hard, distinct shadings between different colors. From what I understand, a lot of this was done in order to make the transition from the actual artwork to the computer-generated scenes smoother and easier to handle. If the scenes were filled with a lot of fine detail, much of that would be lost given the lack of resolution computers at the time could display. As a result, it's not surprising at all to see the HD version of this game look like a smoothed out, but just as exaggerated and quirky version of the original. I don't know if the original artwork was rescanned, or if artists for the Remastered edition simply cleaned up what was already in the game, but either way the game Day of the Tentacle looks both completely new, and exactly what I remember; for some reason I forgot just how jagged the original art was.
The game's U.I. was also altered. Like other recent Remastered releases, the verb-box and perpetually-present inventory section has been hidden. Now, interacting with objects and people is connected to the cursor and the inventory pops up from the bottom when you want. This, of course, gives plenty of screen real-estate to the bigger visuals that are present since before, this part of the U.I. would take up about a quarter of the screen.
Of course, a big part of replaying a classic like this is the nostalgia factor, so as you might have guessed, the original look and feel of the game is just a key-press away, so feel free to stick to one look or the other ... or even flip-flop between them as your heart desires.
Day of the Tentacle was also a great game when it comes to sound. The original release, on floppy discs, didn't even have voice-overs for all of the dialogue. It was a later release for the CD-ROM that added that feature. Well, all of those voices and the game's unique music are all a part of the Remastered edition.