Frankenstein’s New Game “The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature”
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story continues to inspire new iterations. Soon to come, beginning this Halloween to a mobile or game screen is The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature, a narrative exploration/adventure game from developer La Belle Games and French TV network ARTE France. The game invites players to take the point of view of the Frankenstein creature and write their own take of the story journey of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Shelley famous novel, where the choices made in the course of the game will affect the ending.
This world of the gothic story is designed with bright and vibrant colors with a universe based on 18th Century Paintings. The background landscapes change over the course of play with a soundtrack to lend an emotional tone to the creature’s journey. The experience is to draw the played into a wanderlust feeling of discovery drawn from the classic original novel.
Through the creature you travel across Europe in an introspective quest of self-discovery. You begin as a created being with no concept if you are good or evil. You wander the land with no memory and no past, where the evolving landscapes based on the emotions of discovery blend reality and fiction as your encounters with humankind shape a future destiny from the choices you make> of your experiences. You cannot escape learning and accepting where you came from as you meet humans and make life and death choices. Some experiences will be pleasant joys and some bitter brutal sorrow, but each station of growth brings you closer to the truth of your existence and tells your ending.
In a prequel game, you play 18-year-old Mary at the villa by Lake Geneva in the well-known ghost story dare with Lord Byron, Percy and Claire by the fireside. You have to speak up and tell your own story in a room full of famous romantic detractors. Perhaps rather inspired by the beginning of the Bride of Frankenstein movie version, you start with the gothic summer before beginning your journey.
The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature launches October 31, 2019 and will be downloadable from Steam, coming to Switch, PC, Android, and iOS.
Official Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature site here ARTE.
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It’s alive! Frankenstein rises again on an Iphone near you, or in your hand. Anroid, too. “Helping Frankenstein” a newly released game from Sweden based game developer Peeking Peacock lets you play assistant to Dr. Frankenstein in creating a creature from dead bodies! There are a few differences in this version than in Mary Shelley’s novel. First, the “doctor: here is an attractive young woman in lab coat, Ms. Frankenstein, and the main player character is the hunchbacked assistant Igor, of the movie world.