I had a lot of fun playing this, and considerable effort must of gone into tying up the real world facts and Holmes' story. Good characters, good dialogue, OK voice acting, and a very 'real' 1880's Whitechapel. I mean they really don't pretty it up. Had some trouble getting it running properly on Win11, but got it working fine with various patches. There is a bug for some regarding drawing an ellipse on a map, I had it, and it's solved buy drawing a slightly larger circle. It's all on the web. 5 stars seems a little too keen given some of the technical issues, but honestly, as a fan of the books, true crime, and detective stories, this is great fun.
Enjoyable enough while it lasts, especially if you speed through all those long walkabouts with Alt-F12. Also, cheat the maze, because seriously, who needs to do those anymore?
There's some nice ideas in this game and I did enjoy it for a while. However, the combat grind, slow dungeon movement, lack of character models and quest repetition got the better of me. Almost no sound, but I like the gfx. I bet this was well liked in it's day though.
Spent 45hrs on this and that was way too long. Think of it as an Elder Scrolls lite, with a lot of the systems still in their infancy. After 10-20hrs, once you've seen most of what the game has to offer, do yourself a favour and watch a playthrough and skip to the intresting bits.
Once you get it running, it's a fun adventure game with shooting and close combat setions. Now, you need to understand that this game is janky a.f. If you can stand this and don't mind consulting a walkthrough occasionally, you'll have good time. Shooting sections are atrocious though. Install dgvoodoo and start the .exe directly from the game folder. Changed .exe compatibility to win7, run as admin, disable full screen opt. I also ran fraps to check the fps ran at 60. On Win11. This worked for me with ctd on alt-tab only. Sometimes froze for a few seconds after loading a save game and transitioning between indoors/outdoors. Enjoy!
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game. Well written, funny, good logic, excellent voice acting and nice pixel art (if you like that). Great stuff. Bravo!
