Want a redone Sherlock Holmes The Awakened? You'll have to pony up.
Frogwares has taken to Kickstarter to fund Sherlock Holmes The Awakened, a remake of its 2006 title of the same name.
“Previously teased under the name Project Palianytsia, The Awakened is a dark, HP Lovecraft-inspired story infused with the narrative arc of a young Sherlock Holmes taking on his first big case once he settled in London,” Frogwares said in a press release.
The Kickstarter campaign is now live, here.
“The idea of using the unsettling and horror-filled events in The Awakened to continue our young Sherlock arc has been floating around the studio for a while,” said Frogwares’ Denys Chebotarov.
“The supernatural, all-consuming cosmic horror setting and gameplay work extremely well as a monumental, life-altering moment in Sherlock’s formative years. Something that tops what we already did in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One and lets us continue our creative take on what Sherlock could have experienced to become such a broken and haunted genius.
“The story is also set up well as a great opportunity to give our take on how the profound bond between Holmes and Watson could have cemented itself. It’s something we intentionally didn’t cover in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, but a part of the Holmes story we knew we’d like to one day cover. A profound and haunting experience that essentially brings them together.”
The remake will sport new graphics and assets in Unreal Engine 4, new animations, full cutscene overhauls, new gameplay mechanics, story rewrites and much more.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is planned for Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS4, PS5 and Switch.
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