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Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring

Better than many current adventures

This isn't meant to be just a point'n'click adventure game - the whole point is that you're meant to deduce what has happened in a rapidly convoluting series of murders. It's great for this - the quiz mechanic that others have decried is the mechanism for making sure you're following the plot and puzzling out the murders as you go. By the end I'd got a bit lost and a couple of fundamental details aren't clearly communicated by the game (I guess they would give the game away if they were) but the extent to which this is the case means that it loses a star for obfuscating just that little bit too much, but overall it's still an engaging, fun sequence to play and to puzzle out. I'd keep a walkthrough on hand as there are some parts where it's very difficult to know if you've collected everything or not (or, more precisely, what you have to do to ensure you have collected everything and can move on) but overall (and especially for the price!) this is a good value sleuthing treat.

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