#Slay the Princess devs revive outdated sport in time for Steam’s Visible Novel Fest – Destructoid

Earlier than Slay the Princess, the staff at Black Tabby Video games launched an episodic visible novel known as Scarlet Hole. Now their earlier sport is getting some new life with a significant replace forward of Steam’s Visible Novel Fest.

Scarlet Hole initially launched a few years earlier than the grotesque twists and turns of Slay the Princess reared their heads. With Black Tabby Video games turning again the palms of time to 2021, the chapters which might be at the moment accessible will quickly have one thing new to supply. Along with UI enhancements, the story has been expanded and new decisions have been launched for a relaunch that’s being dubbed The Highway Untraveled.

These returning to Scarlet Hole, North Carolina, or trying out the Early Entry launch for the primary time will expertise a script with over 70,000 further phrases. That covers the 4 chapters stay now and extra art work from Abby Howard. 

Transforming the previous

Combining two character traits can shift the narrative in a wide range of methods in Scarlet Hole. The brand new decisions that emerge within the up to date model carry extra expertise from the writers together with them. Black Tabby co-founder Tony Howard-Arias commented on the truth that Episode 1 was the staff’s very first sport, and the way they’ve grow to be higher designers and writers within the years since its debut. As such, they wished to “make its opening act extra reflective of the acute company and deep character writing that defines the later episodes.”

As for these last episodes, they’re nonetheless on the way in which! Scarlet Hole was deliberate as a seven-episode story, so it’s only a matter of when. With the replace paving the way in which for what’s to return, hopefully gamers received’t have to attend for much longer for Episode 5. Within the meantime, search for the relaunch of Scarlet Hole to kick off on March 3. The absolutely reworked first episode will likely be accessible as a free demo alongside the discharge, and progress could be carried over to the remainder of the sport.