Writing and concepts aside this game is utterly borked in execution. Aiming does not work. Stealth does not work. The way you level up and gain 'cool powers' is boring. Functually nothing in this game is working as they are supposed to. Yes, taking the espionage genre mixed with RPG elements with multiple choices that impact or change the story is a highly entertaining IDEA. But it fails to be entertaining. I'm playing on the normal difficult and I'm struggling with stealth, you cannot, I'll say again, YOU CANNOT STEALTH. It is impossible. When you end up shooting (basically 90% of the game) you will find it clunky, slow, unresponsive. For some reason, they thought that a secret agent wouldn't have the capability to shoot more than a single bullet in an accurate manner. Obsidian's catalogue has always been busted. I do appreciate the restoration of dead games. But, having restored a game that is essentially a failed execution which does not play as intended is a waste of money. Waste of money IMO
I got this game for free and I still feel robbed. I played for 2 hours and beyond the slog pacing of this game. it is filled with bugs! -Clues can disappear after you obtain them, forcing you to slog again through unskippable cutscenes and dialogue. -Movement in this game is worse than tank controls of RE1 -Dialogue, music, and cut scenes are SLOOOW. Gamers didn't make this game. There is no way people who play video games tested this and liked this project. You can't even fast walk, you can't highlight interactions, and you can't skip pointless interactions. YOU HAVE TO SLOG THROUGH IT. WHy????! Even if you got this for free don't play it. Watch it on YouTube because my god is this game badly designed and counter-intuitive for pacing. I have zero clue how this game even received a 3.8 less than half of the people on GOG got past the gym.
I have barely played for two hours and so far what I have seen is terrible design choices after even more terrible design choices. For example, the first puzzle is to open a police bag locked by a code. The game does not give you hints or explain where the numbers should go or the final objective. Just play around until your brute force your way in. Most missions are just this "Oh you are the famous sherlock holmes, do you mind doing 20 unimportant tasks so I could give information about a murder?" These tasks are sometimes just pure agony as you are forced to traverse the horrible map of a single area in London. The view distance is so tiny that you have to be less than 3 meters to see. You have no compass or sense of direction, and your FOV is so small I lose direction instantly when I get close to a building or a house. Because apparently, Sherlock Holmes has a 4x optical zoom built into his eye. Dialogue and voice acting are just bad. I cannot find any enjoyment in it. The deduction and crime scene investigation have cool ideas but fail to execute any of them. The first scene you investigate has no body. But Sherlock Holmes just imagines a perfect copy of the corpse and somehow adds 3d detail to it without ever interacting with the real dead woman. He then jumps to conclusions left&right just spewing nonsense without ever proving that things happen. For example, once Sherlock imagines the dead body, he pulls out a magnifying glass and checks for details on the fake body that HE IMAGINED. And because logic has been thrown out the window and every bystander has fewer brain cells than a penguin it makes sense. After that horrible part, you now play as Waston. And the same thing happens, you are forced to run around like a headless chicken, talk to every NPC you have met before and even new ones. And just do boring tasks in order to get basic information for a murder. In conclusion, do not play this game. Or any other sherlock game. They are all bad.
i actualy want to know who created this insane iilogical story and who paid these actors because let me tell you how insane this gets. So i start the by skiping the intro i then went to the bathroom to take a wee i come back and my main ch is in a bed getting ready for her baby to be extracted without concent, i then stab a giant gas thingy and he dies with one hit later a giant explosaion happends, and my ch flys across the room and lands on her stomech (BTW SHES STLL PREGNET) she wakes up unharm (becuase LOGIC) and falls about 10 meters (and still being completely unharm. THEN WE ACTUALY START THE GAME, let me tell you something the first puzzel uses a protin shake for anything (YOU GOT A BROKEN TERMINAL USE A PROTIN SHAKE, GOT A ID CARD THAT DOES NOTHING RUB PROTINSHAKE ON IT AND MAGIC) and that first puzzel i just stopped playing because i knew my head would go into a coma if i kept playing NOW for the dialogue: the dialouge is sooo werid sometimes the ch will cry be in pain or laugh FOR NO REASON AT ALL, then she sometimes cracks jokes while being in the worst place possible. and im not even a hour in the story. if i could mark this game from 0-10 i would be 0 becuase i have no idea how is this a game
