Analysis of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

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Analysis of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

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Whenever I have to analyze any type of title, I like to talk a bit about the context in which the development is involved. Muchos casos este aspecto es conocido o hasta irrelevant para lo que es la producción final, sin embargo, para este Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, creo que el trasfondo que rodeó a esta production hace al juego y afecta, de una manera u otra al final result.

frogs He is known for creating a good fan base with his work, especially with the Sherlock Holmes series, a saga that managed to create a unique atmosphere with each delivery with graphic investigation/adventure games with a very particular rhythm and system for this era when action and immediacy games are the kings of the market.

Getting back to context, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is a redo of a title that returned in 2007 and not a sequel to the great Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, which we analyzed in this house not so long ago. Why not do a sequel to the last episode and release a redo in its place? The answer is more than anything geopolitical, since the studio is located in Ukraine, in the midst of war, which is very clear from the first screen of the game. The developers rightly thought that under the circumstances it was much easier to work on a smaller project (which, in fact, took them a year) than a larger production of the caliber of Chapter One which took a good three years.

Chronologically, this Sherlock Holmes adventure takes place immediately after chapter one, and in this redo some lines and plots have been changed to make the timeline much clearer. In this case, the adventure will take Holmes and Watson from dark London, to the Swiss Alps and New Orleans to investigate the mysterious disappearances of people, in a twist that unites the worlds of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with the legend of Cthulu. by HP Lovecraft, a recipe for success in the minds of English literature fans, which for some reason doesn’t quite fit.

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