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I’m curious to the story. Is it satisfying or did they spend so much time and efford on the graphics that the story got a bit neglected? That’s what I’m afraid of.

Here is the Case of the Missing Necklace for those who is still waiting for US release. 

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It is an interactive Youtube video where you can play an actual case from the game by clicking on the clues and finding the missing jewels!

Fantasysci5 - 21 September 2012 03:49 AM

My memory seems to be failing me; was Lestrade present in any of the other games?

He was in Nemesis and Silver Earring, maybe others as well but I can’t remember either.

tsa - 21 September 2012 04:43 AM

I’m curious to the story. Is it satisfying or did they spend so much time and efford on the graphics that the story got a bit neglected? That’s what I’m afraid of.

Unless the game falls apart later on, from what I’ve played so far, it’s without a doubt the best storytelling Frogwares has done with Sherlock Holmes yet. It’s darker, more complex, better written and the core mysteries at the center of it are far more interesting and unpredictable than they were in the other games. There’s still a few clunky moments where it seems like there’s some translation issues but those are far between.

I’m very excited for this game’s US release on Tuesday! I’ve played a couple more popular “adventure” games before (I looked into the genre after playing some visual novels and hearing about Ace Attorney; I mostly think of them as really hard VNs still, haha) but this game looks like it takes the next step: a beautiful 3D world with a greatly rendered Holmes and Watson.

For the past year and a half or so I’ve watched and read a lot of Sherlock Holmes (and Raffles!) television shows, movies, and books so this really comes at the perfect time for me (Elementary comes out Thursday, too!). It’s even better that Atlus USA is publishing it, because I probably would never have heard of it otherwise (I frequent their forums and buy a lot of the games they publish). I was hesitant for awhile since I had never heard anything about Frogwares before but I checked out the last half a dozen or so SH games and they’ve got a solid history, it would seem. I’m glad to hear good things from early adopters; hopefully my GameStop has a copy of the game since I wasn’t sure that I would buy it for a long time (if not, there’s always Amazon).

I’m saving up for a laptop and hopefully then I can backtrack and play the older ones, since my family’s desktop is no good for games.

Sounds great from what I’ve been hearing. So what’s the difficulty like versus the previous games? I found Sherlock vs Ripper slightly easier than the previous entries, so I would hope they don’t make it any easier.

Oscar - 21 September 2012 11:47 PM

Sounds great from what I’ve been hearing. So what’s the difficulty like versus the previous games? I found Sherlock vs Ripper slightly easier than the previous entries, so I would hope they don’t make it any easier.

Since its also on consoles i’d bet its much easier.

It’s a little easier but I think that’s just because they’ve made an effort to ground the puzzles in logic and try to better integrate them into the story. There’s still the obligatory “piece together the torn paper” and “figure out the code to open the safe” kinda stuff but they’re kept to a minimum and make usually sense when they do pop up, often relying on your investigation of clues in the nearby area to figure them out instead of just luck or patience.

Very few puzzles in this feel arbitrary which I think is one of the big reasons why its leaps and bounds ahead of the previous Holmes games. There’s none of those endless fetch quests where you have to constantly trek back and forth through the city streets and surprisingly little inventory puzzles, which I thought had a tendency to be a little illogical in previous games. Most of the puzzles are centered around the power of deduction and while that can make them pretty simple to figure out at times, it also gives you the incredibly cool feeling of being Sherlock Holmes. Rotating around a top hat to find smoke burns and scratch marks from glasses on the rim so you can narrow down the list of potential owners might not leave you stumped but it’s incredibly fun to do.

I like fetch quests. And inventory puzzles.

What a shame. I was considering buying this. Oh well.

A replay of Serrated Scalpel it is.

Curious to see what the reviews say.