Which is to remake the old Lovecraft-themed Sherlock Holmes game, but with new assets.

I think there’s a glimmer of greatness in the very fact of its constraints.

John Watson believes in the supernatural, more specifically God (emotional, a fool!

Sherlock Holmes, looking haggard and rained-upon, in a top hat, raising one hand as if to shield his face, in a cutscene from Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

The locations are smaller, so the signposting is easier to follow.

These are all improvements!

I often think that Frogwares' vaulting ambition is what spreads their games thin.

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The game feels more focused in general, even if it’s by necessity.

There are problems with it, too.

The denouement to the whole thing is actually kind of dire.

A scene from Sherlock Holmes The Awakened where Holmes is imagining what happened at a crime scene: an unknown figure throwing an axe at a woman

A map of a rich district in New Orleans from Sherlock Holmes The Awakened