Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

A relaxing adventure at the edge between reality and madness, SH:A is not really a challenging game, but it does drip with atmosphere. While the pacing could be faster, the puzzles are varied and not recycled between the chapters, and the main gameplay loop was engaging.

Not the best holmes game I've played, currently at Chapter IV at the time of this review. Not as many side cases to solve as there was in the previous Holmes game, there is only a single main story case in each of the locations I've been to and then I move on to the next chapter. I'm going to give it a 2 star it could have been something amazing.

I'd only played a bit of the original, so can't recall much of it, but this remake is truly well made and fully cinematic. My main gripe, though, are the game mechancis that are a bit weird, not very intuitive. Also the story could move a bit faster or be a bit denser. It's still interesting, but some chapters tend to drag a bit until the interesting bits come. Nonetheless, it's a well made game that should be played by SH fans.

Frogwares managed to remove most of the annoying and irritating features of previous games while building a very compelling and immersive story. Its the best of any Sherlock games they've released and it's not even close.

If this had the same open world approach in the areas of London and New Orleans as the previous game it would have been amazing. I really wanted sherlock to explore new orleans and find more cases inspired in lovecraftian stories.