Broken Sword — The Shadow Of The Templars: Reforged will launch for PS5 on September 19, 2024, Revolution Software has announced on the PlayStation Blog.
An enhanced version of the classic 1996 PSOne point-and-click adventure game, Broken Sword — The Shadow Of The Templars: Reforged completely overhauls the original visuals, boastings a resolution 50 times greater than that of the original game. Character sprites have also been redrawn, with each one taking animators up to an hour to draw, resulting in vastly improved models with subtle facial animation and expressions.
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Revolution Software CEO, Charles Cecil, had the following to say regarding the backgrounds for the project:
The original backgrounds were hand drawn in pencil on A5 (or larger) sheets by extraordinarily talented layout artists who had worked for most of their lives at the Don Bluth animation studios in Dublin. I decided that the game’s ‘canon’ should be those original pencil layouts, and where the game screens varied for whatever reasons, we would base the new high resolution art on the pencil layouts. This allowed us to digitally repaint over the original linework in 4K, which we had scanned at very high resolution, with confidence using the original game screens as reference.
Meanwhile, the blog post reveals that the team did a lot of user testing in order to gauge how well the point-and-click interface would translate for a new generation of players. As such, Revolution discovered that some new players were turned off by the interface, but at the same time were mindful of those that enjoyed the original template, and as such “we offer the player a choice between the traditional approach and a new story mode.”
Broken Sword – The Shadow Of The Templars: Reforged launches on Sept. 17 for PS5.
[Source – PlayStation Blog]