Why is Sherlock shooting blind in his flat?

[Fast Pooper]

The opening scene put me off the game. Does it get any better? This crap is entirely uncharacteristic.

[Asturok]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_AUBT-PAo

[Iris]

He's pretty unlikable during the first case, it gets better as you solve new cases.

[Fast Pooper]

Originally posted by Iris:

He's pretty unlikable during the first case, it gets better as you solve new cases.

OK, thanks. Is there anything that's wrong with him, or is that just how they wrote it?

[Fast Pooper]

Originally posted by Asturok:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_AUBT-PAo

I guess it makes sense if it's a homage to the show, but Doyle's Sherlock would never do something like that. He'd rather sniff a line of coke than start shooting willy-nilly.

[Iris]

Originally posted by Aflac:

Originally posted by Iris:

He's pretty unlikable during the first case, it gets better as you solve new cases.

OK, thanks. Is there anything that's wrong with him, or is that just how they wrote it?

It's supposed to be funny and a couple of other cass start like that too, but overall the game has a serious tone and the investigation mechanics are pretty fun, even if the game dumps them on you without explaining much. Oh and he does coke at one point too.

[Fast Pooper]

Originally posted by Iris:

Originally posted by Aflac:

OK, thanks. Is there anything that's wrong with him, or is that just how they wrote it?

It's supposed to be funny and a couple of other cass start like that too, but overall the game has a serious tone and the investigation mechanics are pretty fun, even if the game dumps them on you without explaining much. Oh and he does coke at one point too.

Thanks a lot!

You, too, Asturok. I might buy the game then.

[Asturok]

I also thought it was an homage to the BBC series (and it's not the only one) but I've seen something like that many times. here you have another iteration of sherlock holmes shooting in his flat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLmujqzpzk

anyway, the game is pretty good, don't be let down for that

[White Wolf]

also bullet count does not match :D he shoots like 11 i think without reloading the revolver.

[Fast Pooper]

Originally posted by Asturok:

I also thought it was an homage to the BBC series (and it's not the only one) but I've seen something like that many times. here you have another iteration of sherlock holmes shooting in his flat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLmujqzpzk

anyway, the game is pretty good, don't be let down for that

Actually, there is this passage from "The Musgrave Ritual" where Doyle says that Holmes shot up his wall in the pattern of the Victoria Regina, with so-called "bullet-pocks": http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes/Adventure_V_The_Musgrave_Ritual_p1.html

The scene in the game is still silly, however, because he's shooting not at a solid brick wall (Victorian row houses had double-thick brick walls adjoining them), but at the soft panelling inside the house! Not to mention he's still firing even when he can hear Watson enter the room downrange, but I guess for the purposes of a tutorial it was supposed to be "exciting."

[I have headaches]

Originally posted by hello9:

Originally posted by Asturok:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_AUBT-PAo

I guess it makes sense if it's a homage to the show, but Doyle's Sherlock would never do something like that. He'd rather sniff a line of coke than start shooting willy-nilly.

Sherlock does it as well in the robert downey jr. movie but in this movie he was blindfolded