Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

Really enjoyed the game, just wish the game let me be wrong in my deduction or made it possible for it to be more than just 1 answer to who is jack the ripper

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.

Frogwares games can be charmingly janky but when I have to go under the hood and mess around because by default the game doesn't let you *save* then something has gone really wrong.

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.

Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper has two bugs that the user must fix: 1. Settings not saving properly, which can fixed by adding a .dll file that must be found online. 2. Suddenly being unable to save your game (by far the biggest problem) This can be fixed by making the game large address aware, using a 3rd party application. These are serious issues that the user should not have to fix by themselves in order to get the game playable. The needed .dll should be included by GOG or devs, and large address aware flag should be set. This is unplayabe in this state, buyer beware.