The portal to the Dreamlands has yawned open, a as soon as in a millennium occasion (apart from throughout videogame advertising and marketing cycles), and we’re eventually granted a clearer image of what to anticipate from The Sinking City, an open world investigation/shootybangs recreation primarily based on the Lovecraft mythos, and assembled by Sherlock Holmes studio Frogwares.
So far, they’ve been slightly coy about displaying off how issues work – though demo builds had been on present at Rezzed – however a brand new teaser and a current set of q&a vids reply a few of the ry’leh urgent questions.
Here’s the teaser. Only the briefest snippet of in-game thingers, as far as I can inform, however it offers us sense of the type of vibe they’re going for, in addition to our gaunt hero. Part of me bristles on the concept we’ve got to have a Gunbloke as protagonist, given Lovecraft’s personal tales tended to star freaked-out and frail educational types, however not less than his cheeks are virtually as hole as his haunted eyes.
Rather extra could be gleaned from this trio of dev weblog movies, launched earlier this month, by which Frogwares folks straight subject a few of the key questions – together with concerning the investigation/fight combine, the open world side, how a lot Lovecraft vs new lore there’s, the size of all of it, and the enhancements they’re making to gunfeel after some early grumbles about it, in addition to displaying off fairly a couple of clips of precise in-game footage.
The Sinking City actually appears and sounds extremely bold, and anybody who’s performed Frogwares’ Holmes video games will know that they work laborious to do attention-grabbing issues with investigation, even when the execution is about as constant as a schoolboy’s spelling of ‘Cthulhu’. Let’s hope they’ve received the money and time required to make The Sinking City float.
