Sherlock Holmes Chapter One Deluxe Edition

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Posted on: December 5, 2024

pilgrimgog

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Games: 15 Reviews: 1

Unstable and Inherently Irritating

Ok, first things first. If you're looking for a classic Sherlock Holmes related game then Crimes and Punishment is the one to go for. It's authentic, voice acting top notch and it's what you will be expecting. The Jack The Ripper game is also very good. After this Frogware just seems to degrade into insanity. Along comes Chapter One. This game is literally unplayable for me despite me having the Lambourgini of laptops, a 14" Razer Blade Laptop consisting of: The latest AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU with 8GB GDDR6 VRAM 16 GB on-board RAM Direct X 12 This laptop breezes through with games like The Witcher 3, Dishonoured 2 and the like. Sherlock Holmes Chapter One ran and then after 30mins or so crashed out and repeated attempts to play resulted in more crashes. Something is clearly wrong with the game imho. Searching the net suggested I pull the high screen resolution down a few notches. I was running at 2560 x 1600 as per my high spec Lambo machine. I dropped it down a few notches in the games own options menus and the game then stuttered, took ages to get through the opening menus and couldn't be played. Went to my desktop to restore the screen resolution only to find that option was now greyed out !! What the heck! So by altering the screen resoltuion in this game's options menu I can no longer change the screen res of my laptop in the native Windows controls. Unbelievable! I've had to do a system restore to the point before I installed the game to get things back to normal. What I did get to play of the game was just awful. It's a real mess. The character is nothing like Sherlock Holmes, his clothing is just farcical and Watson is a complete mess constantly referring to Holmes as Sherry. There's nothing of the Conan Doyle books here imho. It's a travesty. Greatly disappointed as I was loving the Crime and Punishments game and really just wanted more of that. This one is to be avoided imo.

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Posted on: February 6, 2025

GrumpyElk

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Games: 193 Reviews: 7

Cases feel overly contrived

The mechanics, graphics, voice acting. Still good, or at least good enough. The only downside that disappointed me again and again, was the writing. Not all of it. Some background stories are great, heartbreaking even. But the solutions to a lot of the cases felt generated after a repeating principle: I find the likely murder weapon, imply the motive, find the time window and the likely culprit. And then I do the exact same thing again for another person, who astonishingly has a motive, a window of opportunity and a similar weapon. For me the parts of these cases felt generically glued together which took away a portion of the fun I had when I started investigating. The extra effort that was put into the story to keep the case interesting backfired and felt unreal, ridiculous even. And so I put the game down again and again. Play another case month later, finish the case and regret the time I spent with it ... to pick it up again a few month later ... to be dissappointed again. It is not a bad game, but it is not good either.

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Posted on: June 22, 2025

Thelastone2003

Games: 181 Reviews: 13

Only in english

No other languages but english? Big no no for me. The game is great, if you're a native english speaker, otherwise... I mean, if this was an action game it wouldn't matter, but man, I don't know what is happening lately in the game industry. Btw: I'm a big fan of frogwares, been buying their products for a long time and I feel disappointed by these "One language" decision.

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Posted on: March 15, 2024

capricorn1971ad

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Games: 639 Reviews: 28

thank god i got this on sale..

I played the Sinking city, I liked it, then i bought the sherlock holmes series from the same developer and now i know, they didn't have a grasp on what they were doing until they did the sinking city, so far every sherlock holmes game i have tried out has been the kind of game you MUST play with a GUIDE, which SUCKs in my opinion. This title, just like the rest from frogwares dealing with "sherlock Holmes" is a disaster. In real life even if you have different conclusions you can still come to a correct result, but not in this game, it doesn't happen here. I wish i never bought into this sherlock holmes BULLSHIT, and thats what it is is BULLSHIT. even this one unrushed by the war, (unlike the remastering of "the awakened" is the same, so obviously it isn't from the rush, it is just bad direction.

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