Comments on: Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Remastered Demo

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:44:48 +0000

So….it will now have third person view and have more modern graphics? Yay, I suppose. I’m not *nearly* as excited about that as that Frogwares guy seems to be. What I wanted fixed were, oh, I don’t know, gameplay fixes. Like taking out the stupid goddamn stealth sequence in the prison section the video briefly shows. That’s what effectively KOed my playthrough of the game. Some more intuitive puzzles with a bit more flexibility of approach would also have helped.

By: Clovis

Clovis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:55:53 +0000

I deduce that if the game now runs in 3rd person, then Watson must have to actually move around on his own. In fact, the video shows just that. I, personally, cannot condone a version of this game that doesn’t include “creepy Watson”. Suddenly having Watson appear behind you was the best part of the game!

By: Confidence Interval

Confidence Interval — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:36:10 +0000

Sounds intriguing – thanks for the recommendation!

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:14:02 +0000

There is a rather excellent book containing nothing but Sherlock Holmes meets Lovecraft mythos stories. It is called “Shadows over Baker Street”, check it out.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:30:19 +0000

Minor fixes aren’t going to help much. The game was a mess thematically, with none of the creeping dread of Lovecraft or the narrative precision of a good Holmes yarn.

(SPOILERS:) The final bit in the lighthouse was just awful. After it seemed to be building to an epic confrontation were this paragon of the human intellect would be facing off against a pantheon of elder gods carved from pure malevolence, set to doom mankind to madness, you were left with ten minutes of clichéd, mundane cultist characters you had never seen before bellowing hammy lines whilst shooting at you, and an utterly anti-climatic big boss being killed by a wave. A Wave! There no actual conformation the supernatural threat was real. It was like Scooby-Bloody-Doo. There was even a surreal sequence involving a long lost pirate king. Where were the Goddamn Shoggoth? Home Base?

This had so much potential. An adventure game similar to ‘A study in emerald’ I’d have happily forgiven all it’s little game breaking quirks for, but unless the enhanced edition includes a script rewrite from Neil Gaiman, I think I’ll pass.

By: Forceflow

Forceflow — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:18:39 +0000

Okay, let’s stop the sunshine-vomiting, already. There’s something terribly wrong with Watson indeed. Stiff upper lip, old chaps.

By: Confidence Interval

Confidence Interval — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:04:51 +0000

Good morning to you too, sir. I never played the non-remastered version (the simply “mastered” version?) of this but the Holmes-Cthulhu cross-over seems at odds with the hyper-rationalist ethos of the original stories – the dog that didn’t bark, and all that. I like the 19th-Century US look of the thing, though.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:47:22 +0000

How do you do? Also, Watson scares me in that picture.

By: The Poisoned Sponge

The Poisoned Sponge — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:38:52 +0000

Why yes thank you Kieron, the day seems to be going quite well. It’s rather sunny and my bike is finally going to get fixed. What’s happening with you?

By: x25killa

x25killa — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:59:54 +0000

Top shelf! Looks pretty.

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:41:15 +0000

3rd person, neat. Too bad the game itself was pretty mediocre.