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Posted on: June 1, 2025
Alex78G
Verified ownerGames: 56 Reviews: 1
Cool game.
I liked the game. The plot is interesting, i liked the music and the voice acting of the characters. But it is difficult, at least for me. I would not have passed without hints.
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Posted on: November 24, 2024
simon.dottor
Verified ownerGames: 74 Reviews: 4
Boring
If you play adventure games for puzzles, this isn't it. It is a pixel hunter, sometimes you literally have to extinguish every possibility, however useless, in order to progress. I will award 2 stars for the overall atmosphere, but the gameplay is just bad.
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Posted on: April 17, 2025
Antonio_Mangas
Verified ownerGames: 27 Reviews: 2
Doesn´t install
54% installing... and no more
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Posted on: June 8, 2017
pahster
Verified ownerGames: 353 Reviews: 11
Freakin' tedious
I love Sherlock Holmes. This isn't Sherlock Holmes. At first the game seemed interesting but I soon discovered this was only a thin patina overlaying a jumble of problems and shortcomings. First there is the issue of mobility. For some bizarre reason they decided to have the camera angle swing around at all sorts of crazy angles so you're never quite sure what direction you are going. It's not hard to end up accidentally backtracking because of this. It makes finding anything ridiculously complicated. And the map doesn't help at all because you can walk right by a place you will need to visit and if its not "time" to visit it yet, it won't mark it on the map - so you'll have to wander around until you find it again later. And I do mean "wander" - fully 3/4ths of this game is just wandering around until you accidentally find what you don't even know you're supposed to be looking for yet. Then there are the game mechanics which you only find out by trial and error and accident. For instance, there is a "look around you" view that has to be implemented by pressing the middle mouse scroll wheel (on my mouse, at least) and which is exited by pressing the scroll wheel again. Once something is in your inventory you CANNOT examine it - there is no "look at" feature, which is freakin' crazy in a game that is all about finding and examining clues! And to "use" an item, you click on it in the inventory, exit the inventory, and then click around trying to figure out if it has a use in your current location. It gives no signal that you are "using on", you just have to hope you accidentally come across a hotpoint you can "use" it on. The cursor doesn't give any indication what mode you are in. Sometimes it shows a pipe - I have no idea what that is supposed to signify. Sometimes you move by clicking with the pipe and sometimes it turns into footprints - either way you walk. It seems to have 3 forms - pipe, footprints, and magnifying glass - there is no special cursor indicating you are currently trying to use an item as there is with EVERY single other point-and-click game I have ever played. As for the so-called "puzzles" around the clues themselves, again, you end up solving them mostly by accident - not even by guess and by golly, just pure accident. At one point I knew what the intent of a puzzle was, but in no way could I actually get things to line up in order to actually SOLVE the puzzle, in large part because I was presented with a new game mechanic - an inset of the full scene down in one corner superimposed there, and no amount of clicking helped me to figure out what mechanic I was supposed to be using at that point. Even reading a walkthrough of that part didn't tell me how that mechanic was supposed to work. There are major discrepancies within the game itself. At one point Holmes finds a passport and states that the man is 36 years old, yet the birthdate (1852) on the passport and the date of entry into England (1894) makes it clear the man is 42 years old. The only way this could be true is if the man traveled 6 years into his own future before traveling to England - either that or our supersleuth has no mathematical skills to speak of. Some of the voice acting is good and some is just awful. Holmes himself is well-voiced. Watson seems OK. But an awful lot of the other voices are execrable. Especially the awful voice for the Baker Street Irregular posted outside Holmes' front door. Whoever did that should never be allowed to do a fake child's voice ever again, and whoever approved it ought to be shot. Or at least horse-whipped a little bit. I suppose I should have known to expect little from a game that mixes Holmes up with a cult of Cthulu. I never did get what was so awful about the whole Cthulu mythos - all that tommyrot about stuff man-was-not-meant-to-know-wot-of and the-knowledge-that-drives-men-mad. The idea of deep sea creatures feasting on human sacrifices may be grody but not particularly existentially terrifying. And Holmes' reaction when the little Cthulu-grubs come crawling out of that corpse was not "SHOOT THE BLIGHTERS, WATSON!" but "Well we should mosey on back to Baker Street now". Seriously. The one reason Holmes used to drag Watson around with him was so he could shoot things that needed to be shot, and if ever anything needed to be shot, it's meter long maggots crawling out of a corpse. Oh, and no sign of Holmes having called the coppers even up to and including the point where they leave England to travel to "the Continent". Yeesh! By the time the game crashed (at the cut scene where they are apparently on a train somewhere in Europe) I was thoroughly fed up. I won't be bothering to start over (no autosaves and I had covered so little content I hadn't thought to save since the bookshop). Even if I had a save near the crashpoint, this game with all its wandering around, the weird way the camera swings around, and the only real mystery being the game mechanics themselves, is just too tedious and no fun whatsoever. Plus being uber predictable. It's like being forced to read through a choose-your-own-adventure where someone else has already made all the choices. I specifically skipped the first game in this series because of its many problems. I don't know if any of the future games in this series are any better, but they're all coming off my wishlist at this point. This game is just so seriously flawed its not even worth the $2.50 I spent on it, and I don't feel like plunking down another $2.50 only to find another tedious wanderfest on my hard drive.
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Posted on: March 29, 2025
Neverenderr87
Verified ownerGames: 20 Reviews: 1
Too many bugs
Buggy widescreen issues and inability to save the game often.
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