Sherlock Holmes The Awakened Trailer Focuses on Dynamic Duo

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With less than three weeks left before launch, Frogwares published a new Sherlock Holmes The Awakened trailer focused on the birth of the Sherlock-Watson dynamic duo.

Antonina Melnykova, Lead Narrative Designer on Sherlock Holmes The Awakened, explained:

One of the biggest changes we made narrative wise in this remake is how the young Holmes and Watson relationship plays out. It’s our creative take on what horrors the two could have encountered in their first major case that would then go on to solidify their famous bond. And so we’ve given much more of a spotlight to Watson here than before. He has a totally unique storyline compared to the original game, he is playable in parts of the game, and the new ending is very much influenced by him as much as by Sherlock.

Since Sherlock is dealing with Eldritch gods, monsters, cults, and the questioning of his very existence, Watson often acts as an anchor to stop Sherlock drifting too far into insanity. But we couldn’t just have it feel like Watson is this one-dimensional safety net with no character or flaws of his own. So this new version of the story is as much about them as two people as it is about unfathomable Lovecraftian monstrosities.

As mentioned by Melnykova, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is a remake of the 2008 game that Frogwares decided to rework as a natural continuation of the origin story seen in Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One. That game, just like The Sinking City, had open world environments. The same won't be true about this remake for very practical reasons: Frogwares is, as you may be aware of, based in Ukraine, which means they've been facing tremendous hardships for over a year now. The studio talked about them on multiple occasions, including an exclusive