Posted on: October 21, 2018
Retroguiden
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A horrible game experience
"The testament of Sherlock Holmes" is one of the most annoting game experiences I've encountered the past ten years or so. The puzzles are either stupidly simple or insanely diffuclt, scenes are seemingly stitched together in a most unnatural way. Worst of all is the dialog which is laughable. Especially annoying is Watson who is supposed to be a sidekick that can give you valuable advice. But with this incompetent implementation he is nothing more than a dummy, and possible the most annoying character in a game ever. He constantly annoy the hell out of this player with stupid, nonsense dialogue. There are some very good production values here, for sure (graphics are nice, good voice representing for Holmes), but the overall execution cheapens everything with horrible cuts between camera angles and scenes, untimed conversations and bad animation. All this hurts the immersion for the player. Even though the controls are said to be an improvement over previous games they are still lacking. All things added, this game makes for a slow, painful and enervating experience. When the adventure genre went downhill a bit during the late 90's/early 00's europen developers kept it alive. However, even though some were fairly successful they didn't improve on anything. In most cases the opposite were true. I'm going as far as stating that "The Testament of Sherlock Holmes" wouldn't have been released during the golden era of the genre. It's different today though. Since the big AAA developers don't put pressure on the smaller developer's it's much harder today to get hold of a really well crafted adventure games. That's why Frogware can release such a horrible excuse for an adventure game and still continue on. If you value story and immersion this is not a game for you.
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