My first encounter with Frogwares’ Sherlock Holmes video games was the Consolevania drubbing of Sherlock Holmes: The Woke up, however the sequence has come a great distance since. Alice cherished final yr’s Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, which stars a younger, scorching Holmes.
As CJ reported final week, Frogwares now intend to shut the circle by pitting scorching Holmes towards (scorching?) Cthulhu creatures in a remake of 2007’s The Woke up. Its Kickstarter venture launched immediately and there is a reveal trailer under.
Frogwares describe the venture as a “floor up” remake of The Woke up, with a very rewritten story in order that it acts as a continuation from Chapter One. It sounds, actually, prefer it’s much less a remake than a complete do-over of the frequent concept of pitting Sherlock Holmes towards tentacle monsters.
The Woke up Kickstarter is now stay, and on the time of writing is £55,041 in direction of its comparatively paltry £58,548 objective. That does not seem to be sufficient cash to ship a recreation of this scope or polish, significantly given the Kickstarter web page additionally says that Frogwares “are a staff of round 90+ folks.”
Nonetheless, the added wrinkle is that Frogwares are primarily based within the Ukraine. “Below regular circumstances, we’d safe the funding for our subsequent recreation ourselves from the gross sales of our earlier titles and plan growth accordingly,” reads the Kickstarter’s ‘Dangers and challenges’ part. “However this struggle is frequently throwing new challenges at us that every time requires we cease, regroup and adapt. This takes time, effort, and in lots of circumstances cash that was usually put aside to fund the manufacturing of the sport. For this reason we now have chosen to run a crowdfunding marketing campaign.”
Should you’re a fan of Holmes, Frogwares’ tackle the character, or their different horror recreation The Sinking Metropolis, head over to the Kickstarter web page the place you will discover extra information on its story and techniques.