Pegasus Spiele attracts with further innovations: this time the focus is on stories. – Long Live the King, the eighth part of the innovative Undo series was recently released by Pegasus Spiele, which lets players experience a tragic story in the English royal court of the 13th century. The new game comic Sherlock Holmes - Supernatural Investigations is also set in England, in which the players, for example as the master detective themselves, investigate mysterious crimes.
The innovative narrative game series Undo by the author duo Michael Palm & Lukas Zach has been part of the since May 2019 Pegasus Spiele Portfolios. Each case lets the players experience a different story, but each time it is their job to undo what happened in order to save one or more people from a tragic death. To do this, they jump as amorphous weavers of fate to certain points in the protagonists' past - and sometimes also in their future. But the players have to think carefully together about which points they want to travel to, because every jump entails momentous decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.
After three opening titles, The Cherry Blossom Festival, Blood in the Gutter and Curse from the Past, five more parts have gradually appeared, which basically function the same mechanically, but each have a special feature adapted to the topic. In Forbidden Knowledge the players are confronted with the horror of the myth of HP Lovecraft, in Treasure Fever they are part of a deadly treasure hunt in the Yucatan jungle. At 600 seconds they have to prevent a bomb detonation in a New York skyscraper on New Year's Eve and rescue an international tour group in the Himalayan mountains in Summit of No Return.
Story game in England
The latest, eighth part now takes the players to medieval England, where the king was poisoned at the funeral service for the queen. The aim of the two to five players aged ten and over is now to jump back to the right points in the story and to reweave the threads of fate there in order to prevent the death of the king. Together they should discuss the events that gradually reveal themselves and decide together how they want to influence the story.
The recently released crime series game comic, Sherlock Holmes - Supernatural Investigations, on the other hand, is ideal for solo investigators. The aim is to clear up the mysterious events that rock London. Are there really supernatural forces at work here, or are the crimes more committed by flesh and blood humans? As the master detective himself, as Doctor Watson or as Thomas Carnacki, the hunter of the supernatural, the players plunge into adventure.
Unlike in normal comics or novels, the readers slip into the role of the hero in the game comics themselves. The story is not just linear, but presents the players with decisions that influence the story and drive it in one of several directions. Tricky puzzles that have to be solved before reading on provide additional challenges in the crime series. In the game comics, however, the stories are told not just in words, but in comic panels. First of all, the players start reading the comic from the beginning as normal. After a short time, a panel appears for the first time in which one or more numbers can be seen - in the text or somewhere in the picture. The readers now decide where they want to continue reading and scroll to the panel with the corresponding number. From then on, the story criss-crosses the entire comic and the players decide again and again how to proceed.
The game comics from Pegasus Spiele are divided into three categories: adventure, crime and noir. Sherlock Holmes – Supernatural Investigations is the sixth title in the crime thriller category. The game comics in this series all revolve around the famous master detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. John Watson. In contrast, the game comics adventures always have new locations. Here the players can be, for example, a bounty hunter, knight or superhero. The parts of the Noir series are darker and more direct than the other game comics, which is why the publisher recommends them for ages 16 and up.
Basically, the game comics are designed to be read by a single person, even if, of course, nothing speaks against sticking their noses into the book in pairs. For two or more comic fans there are also the family games Kuala and Sherlock Holmes - The Young Investigators. These turn the concept of the game comics into an experience for up to four people, who each control their own character in their own comic book, but experience a common story in the process.
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