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Posted on: November 30, 2024
itsaleqz
Verified ownerGames: 34 Reviews: 1
Very good story in an aged container
Very good story. However, the old mechanics are sometimes annoying. The voice acting is riddiculously bad.
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Posted on: March 19, 2025
sjwc1978
Verified ownerGames: 1040 Reviews: 28
A mostly excellent Holmes adventure
I had a lot of fun playing this, and considerable effort must of gone into tying up the real world facts and Holmes' story. Good characters, good dialogue, OK voice acting, and a very 'real' 1880's Whitechapel. I mean they really don't pretty it up. Had some trouble getting it running properly on Win11, but got it working fine with various patches. There is a bug for some regarding drawing an ellipse on a map, I had it, and it's solved buy drawing a slightly larger circle. It's all on the web. 5 stars seems a little too keen given some of the technical issues, but honestly, as a fan of the books, true crime, and detective stories, this is great fun.
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Posted on: August 10, 2020
GCC50
Verified ownerGames: 67 Reviews: 28
Sherlock Homes can't win
Sadly to say this is an idea that probably looked good on paper but was undone by its own premise very early on. Set during the historical Ripper killings, Sherlock investigates the deaths of each of the canonical 5. The name given to the 5 victims police are certain were killed by the ripper. Given the historical nature of the Killings, you become aware that you are always going to be one step behind the killer and not be able to save any victims and of course the conclusions to the acutal identity of the killer is based on the acutal police suspects of the time. The game does make good use of the deduction board mechanic, but in this instance becomes a deduction on rails game. You can't really go wrong on this one at all. The game is then padded out with the usual pointless busy work and infuriating silly hard puzzles. One involves a bizarre moving block puzzle were Sherlock is trying to pry out a medallion from a floor board, which also has 2 planks, 2 bottles, 2 spoons, 1 comb, and a hand mirror to block progress - this had a 30 step solution to follow, and I had to google it. Puzzles were never Frogwares strength. No wonder then that they would go on to add a skip button to these puzzles in later entries. As an historical curio, it is superior to Nemesis as it tries to be a game of deduction not puzzle solving. Sadly its a case the Great Detective cannot really solve and feels very unsatisfactory in its conclusions.
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Posted on: March 9, 2019
kanamor392
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 60
For CSI fans, no in-game guide
If you like CSI or if you like The Awakened, the previous entry in the series, you might like this game. SOMETIMES "CLUES" ARE JUST DUMB: you are standing in the middle of a dark alley at night. To proceed further you need to collect all clues -one clue requires you to walk away several paces to a lighted lamppost so Sherlock can deduce the crime scene you just left wasn't properly lighted. SOMEWHAT BETTER THAN "THE AWAKENED" but still has too many "fetch" quests, even Holmes jokes about that. CSI crime reconstruction scenes seem forced -does Sherlock really need to get so physical with Watson to deduce what happened? NO IN-GAME GUIDE, and you need it to avoid some frustration. PUZZLES FORCED DOWN YOUR THROAT, like when you recover a "locked" bag. The person who gets it back complains the mechanism is broken and asks you to open it, which you do -by operating the supposedly broken mechanism. Here the puzzle is trying to make sense of it -it's a really weird combination lock. DEDUCTION BOARD: to give the game some sense of "detective mistery" the deduction board organizes known facts written on cards to infer new facts from them until you establish the details of the crime. It's a good idea since it shows you visually what you have and multiple option choices of what to deduce; when you do it right it lets you know by a green highlight. But as shown on-screen is really messy and doesn't feel helpful. NOT MUCH OF A HOLMES GAME, but if you like CSI this could be for you. If you thought The Awakened was good (I don't) this is better. I might have finished it but wouldn't bother with the CSI bits.
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Posted on: January 18, 2022
Crystal_Flight
Verified ownerGames: 96 Reviews: 3
Solid historical detective game
A solid adventure game and Sherlock Holmes' adventure. It's quite gory, there's a lot of deduction work involved and the puzzles aren't too tough. Loved the idea of putting Holmes and the Ripper together since both figures were contemporaries. Also, since I know a bit about the Whitechapel murders, I recognized that the writers did their research on the crimes; for that, they need to be praised. Lovely music and good graphics: not amazing, but the details were there, making victorian London a sight to see. Ran smoothly on my oldie laptop.
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