Here's a title that rather came out of left-field in the Guerrilla Collective showcase at the weekend: Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo. Published by Microids and developed by Pendulo Studios, it's a game that'll be heavily inspired by the iconic film and other Hitchcock work; pleasingly Switch is among the platforms being targeted for release at the end of the year.
The teaser trailer above doesn't show a great deal, but the short Dev Diary video below does show a few snippets of actual gameplay.
It certainly seems ambitious, which is further reflected in the PR blurb below:
- An exclusive, original story about obsession, memory, manipulation and madness, freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo
- Live a powerful narrative experience paying tribute to the visual and storytelling techniques of the thriller genre
- Investigate through the vision of three characters: everyone has a different story to tell
- Explore several timelines to cross-check the events and separate reality from deceptive memories
Pendulo Studios has plenty of experience, though the Switch port of the studio's previous release - Blacksad: Under the Skin - was particularly rough as we outlined in our review, so we hope for better on Nintendo's system this time around.
Are you excited about Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo?
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This has me intrigued, this would be the 2nd game based on a Hitchcock film, looking forward to seeing more about this.
I hopes there's a making of which shows a CGI Hitchcock running around chasing the CGI actresses in the game. ;p
Games based on movies always remind me of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Tutorials— I mean Staff of Kings…
“Hey kid, these streets are tough, sometimes you need to press the A button and swing the Wii remote” - Not Harrson Ford
Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest film would have better choice for a video game because it has a feel of a Choose Your Own Adventure style story.
As a massive admirer of the film, I’m skeptical that this can come close to delivering a similar experience (the music is already so wrong). I wonder how they’re able to use the title and Alfred Hitchcock’s name if it’s a modern, original story.
@LaytonPuzzle27 That's intriguing; Rear Window came to mind for me, as a point-and-click adventure game.
Dare I say... awful adaptation?
Oh no, wait... just inspired -_-
Makes me want to yell like Edward Woodward at the end of the Wicker Man. Why would you license the Hitchcock classic and then make something that looks like snoozefest Inception?
Seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the Jimmy Stewart classic. What an odd license to pursue and apparently do nothing with but utilize it as a title.
It's times like this that make me think of this dialogue from Animaniacs: Wakko's WIsh:
Yakko (looking at a ravine) "Wow, just don't look down."
Wakko "Do you get Vertigo?"
Yakko "Nah."
Wakko "Me, neither."
Yakko "Yeah. I've seen that movie three times and I still don't get it."
@jump I was hoping somebody would reference this.
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