Posted on: February 15, 2019

kanamor392

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Not a Sherlock game, more like Sam & Max

EXAMPLES of this game's problems: A CLUE LEADS YOU to a closed building, where you find at the entry a dropped key and tarred shoe-prints you follow to a different building. Using the key you just found you enter to find another clue, and next to it, well past the door's threshold, a tarred shoe-print! See any problems, Sherlock? Maybe he wasn't alone (I won't double-check the trail because there's NO AUTOSAVE and the game crashed later), but come on. YOU FIND A PARCEL, your inventory shows it's labeled, there's no way to read the label and see who's the owner. A COMPLETE STRANGER HAS BEEN MUGGED, you scour the whole area on a whim to find the culprit because why not? And you find him. And do nothing -you just want some item because why not? YOU HAVE A MAP and an address to go to. You can't read the map and look for the address -you have to step outside and ask for directions. YOU SEE AN URGENT NOTE pasted into a box, you can read it without actually interacting with it, and in fact you CAN'T interact with it at all, not even to learn it doesn't concern you. Later, you return and now can interact with it. NO MANUAL INCLUDED and you really need it because some of the interactions aren't obvious. THE GAME IS TOTALLY LINEAR and won't let you interact at all with obviously interesting items until the time has come. FIRST-PERSON VIEW, MOUSE-ONLY (mostly) is the best way to play the game. IN-GAME STRATEGY GUIDE, welcome because it alleviates the lack of manual and the illogicalness of the puzzles. SOME PUZZLES POINTLESS, can be totally ignored. BEFORE THIS, I played Secret of the Silver Earring, and while it has LOTS of problems, it's true Sherlock Holmes story- and play-wise. DISAPPOINTED, WON'T FINISH. I expected a Sherlock Holmes game where I amass clues to deduce what happened, not running around helping complete strangers so they drop some random item I need just because. THIS IS THE KIND OF GAME where you win by guessing (not deducing!) what the designers wanted.

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Posted on: April 8, 2024

LeftHandedMatt

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Confusing but it works... mostly

While it's a technical improvement over The Silver Earring, I think I enjoyed the story here a bit less. The Lovecraft inspired tale actually takes quite a backseat for most of the game's time, and when it does pop up it's not all that enthralling. But this is a better game to play through even with the janky 3D. This 2008 remastered version defaults to a new third person perspective instead of the game's original first-person and I much prefer playing in a more traditional 3rd person adventure view. I'm glad it was implemented, but it's not perfect. The option to switch between 3rd and 1st-person is there, and in several places it's essential to use both move around the environment. Again, the plot isn't told all that well and there's a lot that doesn't make sense (I assume due to the translation into English). Things happen without much explanation and the game seems to expect you to make huge leaps of deduction along with Holmes. I was fairly lost on what was going on and who was doing it by the end sections. Throw in some bafflingly difficult puzzles, made more difficult by an awkward interface, and you have a game that requires some dedication to get through. Yet the spirit of Sherlock Holmes is there and there's absolutely some fun to be had. I'm glad the game had a built in hint system because I sure needed it, even if it didn't provide quite enough help at times. I also encountered a horrible bug where the game wouldn't let me save in the final 2 hours which soured the experience.

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Posted on: August 28, 2025

GameFreakProphet

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Spiele: 51 Rezensionen: 3

Don't forget to save

Got to the swiss asylum were i lost the game and had to reload a save.. that save was in the beginning of the game... 5 hours of puzzle solving gone -_- taking a long break from this game

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Posted on: January 24, 2023

Tvaroog

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Spiele: 118 Rezensionen: 3

For the hardcore fans of the series.

Improvement over the previous game (The Case of the Silver Earring), not as good as some of the later installments. Some bad acting and animations and awkward dialog. Storywise it's a mishmash of ideas. It's fairly long. I would give it three stars, but there's a bug that prevents players from saving sometimes, which is frustrating. So save often.

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Posted on: October 20, 2023

RawBits

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Spiele: 814 Rezensionen: 5

It is fun to go 1st-person

I played this game in 1st-person mode because I found the usual point-and-click way a bit confusing. But I must tell you that it is a much more fun experience. I'm missing the quiz after the investigations. Instead, there is only a question from Holmes that you need to answer precisely by typing in the answer. They aren't too hard but can be, and you don't get any hints aside from reviewing what you found. The gfx are fine for the time, and the scenes are very detailed, but it doesn't look right out of the box. The view is stretched to the selected resolution, which is off in both 16:9 and 4:3. You probably need to change the FOV in the settings - at least, that's what I did. I did encounter a bug where some scenes got out of order, and people began to teleport and say the wrong dialog which eventually led to a softlock. Had to re-load a save from before.

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