Posted March 15, 2015
I'm playing PS3 version of this game, because it was given "for free" with Plus, and...the game is a mess:
-loading times. A lot. Every two minutes. Every thing you do trigger a loading time. Since there's a LOT of backtracking, you will trigger a LOT of loading times. They are also long.
-framerate issues. There are too many, even if by looking at it, there's really nothing demanding, since locations are very small.
-graphical glitches: they happen in and there, nothing extraordinary, but there are some, expecially when you are talking with a character, in the background, there are strange things happening with lights and textures.
-bugs! Well, nothing painfull here, but I trigger a bug. Basically in a case you need to retrieve a cylinder from a laboratory. Well, I spent TWO hours looking for this cylinder, with no luck. I went on with investigation, finishing the case. And I googled this, just to discover, for some strange reasons, in PS3 version development team patched out this cylinder, making impossible obtain it. Curious thing is, you can still finish the case with no problem, BUT it's impossible grab all clues for that case, making the count 21 out of 22.
-crashes: sometimes the game freezes while changing location
This is clearly a case of a good game (because the game is good and worth a play, expecially if you love Sherlock Holmes. Sadly Frogware "dumbed" down this game, so thanks to multiple endings for each case and the fact Sherlock will use the appropriate item in the right location make basically impossible not to finish the game. BUT: Solving a case with the "right" ending could be a challenge, since you need to read carefully all docs and clues) ruined by a bad console port. I thing PC version is the best, since this should be the first SH title shipping on consolle too, dunno about next gen version.
Oh, there's no a "big" story in this game, just little cases, two of them already present in A.C Doyle works.
Dunno why I opened this thread, but I did it, so here it comes, lol.
-loading times. A lot. Every two minutes. Every thing you do trigger a loading time. Since there's a LOT of backtracking, you will trigger a LOT of loading times. They are also long.
-framerate issues. There are too many, even if by looking at it, there's really nothing demanding, since locations are very small.
-graphical glitches: they happen in and there, nothing extraordinary, but there are some, expecially when you are talking with a character, in the background, there are strange things happening with lights and textures.
-bugs! Well, nothing painfull here, but I trigger a bug. Basically in a case you need to retrieve a cylinder from a laboratory. Well, I spent TWO hours looking for this cylinder, with no luck. I went on with investigation, finishing the case. And I googled this, just to discover, for some strange reasons, in PS3 version development team patched out this cylinder, making impossible obtain it. Curious thing is, you can still finish the case with no problem, BUT it's impossible grab all clues for that case, making the count 21 out of 22.
-crashes: sometimes the game freezes while changing location
This is clearly a case of a good game (because the game is good and worth a play, expecially if you love Sherlock Holmes. Sadly Frogware "dumbed" down this game, so thanks to multiple endings for each case and the fact Sherlock will use the appropriate item in the right location make basically impossible not to finish the game. BUT: Solving a case with the "right" ending could be a challenge, since you need to read carefully all docs and clues) ruined by a bad console port. I thing PC version is the best, since this should be the first SH title shipping on consolle too, dunno about next gen version.
Oh, there's no a "big" story in this game, just little cases, two of them already present in A.C Doyle works.
Dunno why I opened this thread, but I did it, so here it comes, lol.