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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (PC)

Last year, I was attempting to finish every Sherlock adventure game. I was on a roll but when I got here I had to stop. It was so different that they had dropped the Pt Click Adventure elements and just went into a more logical puzzle. I felt disheartened to continue.

But that was a year ago.

After sitting on my desktop for half a year, it is finally done. It probably took awhile to disassociate myself from the zany pt click elements. While I appreciate this new modernized Sherlock, obviously inspired by the recent tv show and its Mind Palace style of deduction, I still kind of miss the random crossover adventures and even that last one which was quite original. By contrasts this one was just a bunch of short stories strung together and having read some of these stories already the conclusion was pretty much obvious. Although I'd like to think this is Frogwares' attempt at testing the engine, seeing as the next game is a full on single case. EDIT: Okay, I'm just reading about it right now. It isn't. lol

Still. The environments look great, even better than anything before it. The Unreal Engine probably had something to do with that. I'm also a little disillusioned by the notion that this game is still taking place in the same continuity as it references previous adventures and yet the Sherlock now looks nothing like the Sherlock then. Strangely enough, they do this in the next game anyway so there's hardly a point.

Excellent game I'll still admit. Just miss the old style. Time to finish the last one soon. Maybe Frogwares will get back to Sherlocking when they release their Cthulhu open world game.
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