Story wise its as you'd expect. You play as The Flash to take down The Trickster who has teamed up with Trachmann (I literally had to Google Trachmann, too. Cheers TV show I've never seen!) in a bid to wreak chaos and general disarray in good ol' Central City. A bunch of gems and what not have been stolen, which the Flash (or you, the player) can nab back along the way as a secondary objective. Taking obvious cues from the show, the game is presented in an episodic nature as opposed to levels/worlds, with two zones and a boss fight a piece.

In many ways, The Flash is a precursor to the popular endless runners that the App Store is littered with these days. By that I mean that in the game you're essentially blasting through as fast as possible against a tight time limit. The time limit is represented in a way that has the Flash being chased down, get caught =/= get killed. Obstacles are pretty much littered everywhere, from walls to enemies (many of whom look like leftover punks from Streets of Rage) and even teaser power-ups that *ahem* trick you by way of being a bloomin' mine. You'll likely be cursing before the first Episode is even up. There's a whole load of little Flash symbols to collect and the power up boxes when not tricking you are handy little additions to your arsenal in the form of Flash's powers from the show (besides the speed, which is always there). Thus, you can also play this like Taz-Mania and go spinning about the place, which is always fun. Levels/zones/areas/whatevers look absolutely enormous, with gigantic buildings that look a tad out of scale when considering the character sprites on screen.

In respect to Flash's speed, it's very well represented here. It really needed to be, otherwise it would sort of render the game a tad moot. It actually feels like Flash is faster than the (at least) 8-Bit Sonic games, which is instantly impressive; but the good impression continues when you consider it's not just a Bubsy or any number of super fast Amiga platformers in the way that you can actually handle Flash. Or will, once used to the mechanics and more importantly the level design. It's a game that is obviously meant to be played multiple times over and is more or less a speedrunners wet dream in that regard. Muscle memory will have to be working overtime, so best stock up on Pro Plus (and Immodium, for afters) to get going properly.

One thing that does bug me slightly is the lack of thought gone into the boss battles. It's basically the same thing over and over again just with a difficulty spike. It's Flash taking on The Trickster, who with each passing fight tricks out the Trickstermobile further. Fair enough, in another way at looking at it, as if it was a film or what have you, it would make more sense for it to be multiple battles with the same darn rogue as opposed to attempting to shoehorn far too much for the sake of toy sales. There's 10 zones in all for Flash to run around and fight in as a means to claw back control of Central City for its citizens. Whether its out in the streets (with massive MAYOR TRICKSTER posters everywhere, or even in the Trickster's very own Funhouse (wait, he is The Trickster not Joker, right?) there is much to master.