Case 4 too easy?

[ckker1234]

Maybe I've improved a lot from case 1(which I failed) on my way until case 4,but I can't help but feel is was underwhelming. I finished it in an hour and ten minutes and before the half of the case I have figured out that *SPOILER* it was probably a lover who killed the cuck drunk husband(and it turned out to be that I was right). But in the previous cases,more specific in 2 and 3 I couldn't construct a solid stream of facts untill the third act of the cases!
What do you think?
P.s.1:I hope there are people playing it these days to respond this post,since chapter one is almost behind the corner.
P.s.2:Sorry for any english typos,I am not a native speaker.

[jbrd_]

I haven't played in a year, yet definitely remember Case 4 and one other (6?) being disappointingly simple. Twas a bit of a downer, but I still had fun with the game.

[Iso Koala]

It was indeed short, just played it, but I think it was good balance to have such a simple family matter case after more epic cases of disappearing trains and indiana jones adventures. Not every case needs to be huge.

This was also about morality of the crime rather than being a big mystery. Even Watson comments that "this seems to be easy case?" and its obvious from like 10 mins what has happened, the women are doing realistically poor job hiding the crime.

[alberta.alberich]

The difference between case 4 and 1 and the other ones is that those two are based on actual Conan Doyle stories, not invented by the devs.

Interestingly enough both cases are also among the few canon ones were both a murder is committed and Holmes decides not to inform the police of the real culprits. I personally think that those two were chosen specifically because of that: As Iso said, they needed more cases about morality to have a reasonable balance of cases where you can sympathize with the culprits and ones where you can't (case 2 and 3 are examples of the later, most chose the strict options for those). This way they had more time to think about good storylines for the other cases and "just" had to replicate those two.

The downside is that they are rather short, simply because the stories they're based on are just about 30 pages each. Of course, in theory they could have also used one of the novels, but they a) have less moral elements to it and b) the second half of each of them consists of the culprits telling their background stories and thereby explaining their motivations. The only novel not following this theme is "The hound of the Baskervilles" and everyone and their grandmother knows the solution to that one.