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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is a fantastic adventure with uniqu...
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration for an extraordinary experience that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence.
Track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul while playing as the great detective, as you untangle a web of intrigue leading to the final stunning revelation.
Each of your deductions and actions affects the rest of the story, for better or for worse…
Play as Sherlock Holmes and use his extraordinary abilities to progress through the adventure.
Freely explore several of the city's neighbourhoods in search of clues and suspects.
Interrogations, combat, chases, infiltration… discover a game that is unlike any other!
I have a problem with giving this game a mark. On the one hand it is expanding ideas of its predecessors and you can certainly like some of the cases. London is finally an semi open city. On the other however it ads mechanics that are simply never used or wasted. While playing it you can almost fell the fact that it was either cut in development or publisher forced devs to finish the product on time losing some of the original ideas. Best and most visible example of this is strange and meaningless ending.
Buy only if you are fan of the series.
If you are new to the genre, I strongly recommend previous entries, especially “Crimes and punishments”
So I did what people usually tell you - rightly so - and played Crimes and Punishments, the previous title in the series first. I enjoyed it immensely. I found it to be a clever, atmospherically dense, superbly written, highly engaging game - that innovated on classic adventure tropes and succeeded in making them better and the genre more approachable.
Then I continued on to "The Devil's daughter' and its a gut punch.
During the intro sequence, they spooled off the following tropes: Token black women (first game must have had too few for the new publishers taste (game set in victorian London)), knocking on Holmes' door, becoming a flirt/love interest to Watson, Holmes acting fashionably cool, then dissing a child - to show he's edgy.
Then diagnosing 'no, the child is not sick he has cried' without any context given, as one of the first player actions (with Watson idle in the background), then switching into acting overly sweet towards the child, because that would be the PC thing to do - someone told the dialog writer, with the child then turning out to be a blueprint of Tiny TIm, with a lame arm, who's lost his parents.
A few minutes later Holmes encounters his daughter, who is back home from boarding school - and greets her with a non sequitur about "how not to tell her about a case, because its so not age appropriate".
Then a few minutes later you have one of Holmes' street urchins cleaning a chimney - (governa'), in a mini-game, in the middle of a chase sequence. And after a few more scenes, you get Holmes shouting at Watson who had just plot advanced, that Holmes' daughter isnt his real daughter - while on the doorstep of a new, unrelated location, that his daughter' shall never be told that she is not his daughter. Ever. Because he would loose here. And thats the end of it. Looking dapper, and bachelor.
The previous game had an intelligent, cynical, sharp, crude main protagonist and on the point, intelligent story delivery and a great supporting cast.
I can not call this game a great game, but I can call it a good one. It has no issue telling you what you need to do, but what you get out of it is on you to figure out, making for a much more unique way to handle criminal cases. It also has no issue using lots of mini-games/QTEs, but does so in a way that keeps things interesting, but it understands these are not for everyone and will allow you to skip what is holding you back for better or worse.
In the end, its definitely a game with some weaknesses, but one fully aware of them. I just wish the game had a better way of handling them.
If it had everything to seduce, this episode, coming after the very successful "Crimes & Punishments" is not remarkable and I was surprised - when playing a second time - to see how much I had forgotten the plot.
The + : improved graphics, an investigation system similar to that of "Crimes & Punishments" (which was good) but synthesized. We can also note the introduction of action scenes, and a semi-open world (but is it useful?).
The problem with this game is its writing. The dialogues are often poor and the investigations not very captivating (unlike the previous episode, these are not adaptations of short stories by Conan Doyle but investigations written by the studio in the spirit of...). Moreover, this game is full of Hollywood clichés (Sherlock even becomes a kind of Indiana Jones) and Watson becomes sexy (what's the point?) but totally useless (again what's the point?). In short, quickly forgotten. Too bad.
Game runs terrible. it has strange 62fps cap with constant shtutter an 1% lows at 2-12fps. The cutscenes are even worse - they are prerendered at what seems like 480p and run at 27fps (again very strange number). Also awful aliasing - even at 4k with max settings everything still looks awfully aliased.
I'm pretty sure the problem isn't with my rig - the Awakaned run at about 144fps on 1800p upscaled to 2160p and I got relatavily top specs (i11700k+32gb3600MhzCL16Ram+rx6950xt).
Dropped after 2hr since even though I liked the awakened for its cinematic horrors, I will probably stick with devs better works going forward. Honestly, I'm afraid of trying the Crimes and Punishments next, since it is an even earlier work of those devs. I pray that the story will keep me going there.
my scores:
1/5 - this "game" shouldn't exist
2/5 - I guess someone might like it, but I regret buying it.
3/5 - I had some fun with it and do not regret buying it.
4/5 - I had completed this game and/or had overall good time with it.
5/5 - It's a great game, one of the bestest of all time!
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