Publisher Bigben released a new gameplay trailer on Tuesday for Ukrainian developer Frogwares’ open-world, Lovecraftian-inspired investigation game “The Sinking City.”
Well, they call it a gameplayer trailer, but there’s very little gameplay to be found in the 1 minute, 30-second video. Not unless “The Sinking City” is actually a creepy shaving simulator.
The trailer focuses on 1920s private investigator Charles Winfield Reed and his deteriorating mental state. As he shaves in a bathroom mirror, tentacles sprout from his face. He slices them off. Are they imaginary? Perhaps. There are also glimpses of the game’s setting of Oakmont, Massachusetts. Once a trade harbor known for its lucrative smuggling business, it’s now isolated from the rest of the world thanks to unprecedented flooding of supernatural origins.
“The Sinking City” is not an official adaptation of Lovecraft’s works, Frogwares said in an April Q&A video. “It’s more like...
Well, they call it a gameplayer trailer, but there’s very little gameplay to be found in the 1 minute, 30-second video. Not unless “The Sinking City” is actually a creepy shaving simulator.
The trailer focuses on 1920s private investigator Charles Winfield Reed and his deteriorating mental state. As he shaves in a bathroom mirror, tentacles sprout from his face. He slices them off. Are they imaginary? Perhaps. There are also glimpses of the game’s setting of Oakmont, Massachusetts. Once a trade harbor known for its lucrative smuggling business, it’s now isolated from the rest of the world thanks to unprecedented flooding of supernatural origins.
“The Sinking City” is not an official adaptation of Lovecraft’s works, Frogwares said in an April Q&A video. “It’s more like...
- 7/31/2018
- by Stefanie Fogel
- Variety Film + TV
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