Hellraiser: Revival narrative director Anthony de Fault has stopped by the Future Games Show Summer Showcase to offer a look at the upcoming horror game and offer an insight into how they approached it.
As part of a feature at the showcase, de Fault offers a quick overview of what's to come. You play as Aiden, a character who "has his entire life been consumed with yearning."
De Fault says, "from an early age, he's sought out crime, drugs, sex, danger in order to feel more, to experience more."
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By the time we meet him, though, he's met a "kindred spirit" who is key to the narrative of the game – his girlfriend Sunny, with whom he has entered into an "infernal spiral into depravity."
So it goes, things are taken a touch too far to the point we find ourselves with a small box called The Configuration, which allows us to wield the powers of hell, solve puzzles, and "ultimately save yourself and your girlfriend from the powers of hell."
If you want to get Sunny's soul back, you'll need to complete your bargain. Sadly, there are two factions standing in your way. One is a cult seeking your newly found power to further their goals, while the other has used constructs themselves and seeks you out for salvation after it all went rather poorly.
To piece together the game, de Fault says they went to great lengths to study the original source material but ensure nothing else crept in.
"It was incredibly dear to us to stay true to the Hellraiser franchise when doing this work," he says. "So went back to the first and second movie, and the novella that he [Clive Barker] initially wrote that it was based on – The Hellbound Heart. [We] tried to blinker other influences out and we just studied those until we found what really resonated with us."
Hellraiser: Revival comes out this year.
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