Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

Game in its core is good. Investigating murders of Jack the Ripper are good and enjoyable. Unfortunately you will spend maybe even more time doing tedious favors for people to help you in your investigation that are unrelated to the case. There are so many of them and are so boring that I didn´t even finish the game because of them.

+ story + deduction mechanic + crime scene investigation - busywork like "bring me that item" - heavy note reading required Overall i do recommend it, if the game interests you.

Great dark & sinister vibe is the biggest positive here. Many boring side qests where you're told exacltly what to do - no place for thinking. Some of the deductions are not logical, you have to guess the right one (some choices are equaly credible in my opinion, but only one gets accepted). Gameplay too often is walking from one cut scene to another, where characters explain all the details and say what you have to do next. In some puzzles you're not provided with clues as to what the solution should be (e.g. you have to guess in what order digits shall be put). Some bugs to be found - game completely crashed 2 times and sometimes I was loosing possibility to save a game until game restart. And just a little nuisance - you cannot use game saves after changing game language (saves are not lost, can use them when language is switched back).

Compared to a lot of other adventure games this one distinguishes itself with a surprisingly in-depth world of wandering NPCs and detailed first and third person perspectives as well as a general hands-off approach to solving puzzles. At times you'll be asked to prove things using notes and times and testimony and although your inventory keeps track of everything it will not implicitly tell you what to use. There's a LOT of running around collecting things, doing tasks for people, looking for surprisingly hard to see clues...it's NOT easy. But it's clearly a labor of love. The historical accuracy is very faithful to the time period and books. I didn't catch any bugs. Translation can be wonky with the subtitles but not difficult to understand. All told if you like Sherlock Holmes, detective work, the time period, pick this up and enjoy! If you get stuck look up a walkthrough. It's a story worth seeing through.