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HandsFree - 30 August 2012 10:49 AM

Olga - 30 August 2012 09:32 AM

* We are using Internet activation for copy protection. You will be able to use the same key up to 3 times. If you need more, email support (at) frogwares.com

@#^&*!! I love the SH games but this is yet another game I won’t buy.

For me this is also a deal breaker. I bought the game so I should be able to play it as often and on any machine I like. And what if I want to replay it years from now and Frogwares doesn’t exist anymore?

tsa - 31 August 2012 05:30 AM

For me this is also a deal breaker. I bought the game so I should be able to play it as often and on any machine I like. And what if I want to replay it years from now and Frogwares doesn’t exist anymore?

Then you’ll download a crack and play your game. Just like if you want to replay an old game that you had on floppies nowadays you download it from an abandonware site because you don’t have a floppy drive anymore. I really don’t get the paranoia around online activation.

Good point. I hadn’t thought of that. I’m quite interested in this game so I will look up the specs of my iMac now to see if it can take it.

Of course there are illegal ways to bypass the problem. But I won’t give any money to developers/publishers that still insist on using this non-sensical drm where people who pay have to deal with the problems while people who download a crack (or even a complete pirated game) are off the hook.

You can do both: pay for the game and then get a version that works from the Internet. Here in the Netherlands downloading for your own use is legal so I’m off the hook. Don’t worry though, I pay for my games because I want the developers to be able to make more games.

Hello AdventureGamers,

The game goes live today in Europe which is a huge event for us.

I know many of you have already pre-ordered the game through your favorite portals and looking forward to have your hands on it :-) So here is a sneak-peak for you, the video walkthrough by Aram from Atlus, our US publisher, who gives an inside look to the game with his commentaries: 

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/09/14/the-testament-of-sherlock-holmes-developer-walkthrough

I hope you enjoy it!

I wish I could play it. I love Sherlock Holmes. Sadly I can’t afford it right now.

Olga - 20 September 2012 05:07 AM

Hello AdventureGamers,

The game goes live today in Europe which is a huge event for us.

I know many of you have already pre-ordered the game through your favorite portals and looking forward to have your hands on it :-) So here is a sneak-peak for you, the video walkthrough by Aram from Atlus, our US publisher, who gives an inside look to the game with his commentaries: 

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/09/14/the-testament-of-sherlock-holmes-developer-walkthrough

I hope you enjoy it!

No spoilers in that movie?

This would be a great release for GOG.

I’ve played about two hours of this and so far I’m really, really impressed with the huge step forward Frogwares has taken with the series. The new behind-the-shoulder 3rd person camera is fantastic, it makes the game feel modern, accessible and similar to something like L.A. Noire, and it looks pretty great*. Even the puzzles I’ve done so far have been a huge improvement over the past Holmes games with the deduction board no longer a frustrating hassle and the more conventional stuff like having to pick a lock and crack a safe being surprisingly fun and satisfying to solve. This is also the first time a Frogwares game has genuinely made me feel like being Sherlock Holmes: there’s a section where I seamlessly pieced together all of the evidence from a murder scene to pinpoint the location of the hospital where the scalpel used in the killing was stolen from and the game truly made me feel like I was the one figuring it out, with none of the trial and error deduction which you had to rely on in all of the previous games in the series. I hope this nets Frogwares the larger audience it deserves to, they’ve truly made a game that can rise above the niche adventure game label and appeal to a much broader crowd.

* the one exception to it looking great being the truly atrocious ctuscene which opens the game, an ugly and dated mess where a bunch of freaky looking kids find Watson’s journal and start reading through it. I have no idea why it looks so much worse than the rest of the game, maybe it was made earlier on and they never got a chance to fix it up, but the game gets off on such a bad foot because this opening movie looks like it was made in 1996 for the Nintendo 64.