The 7th part in the Sherlock Holmes series had the potential to be an awesome game but failed to deliver.

The visuals have finally improved after like five games! The (sometimes awkward) close-ups of the characters' faces clearly show how much work went into the animation. Also the locations look great. BUT there are still pop-ins in the background, blurry faces, Watson sinks into the ground, and other little glitches.

This game runs less stable than all its much older predecessors, it froze and crashed on me five times, that's five more times than all the other games combined. Also the loading times between changing locations every time were unexpectedly long.

In contrary to the other Holmes games, this one doesn't have one main story but six little ones. Holmes investigates several cases, which is fun, but unfortunately, they are not eventually intertwined to build up to an epic finale. It's just six random stories which is a shame.
Another wasted potential was the closet. You get the ability to put Sherlock into costumes but in 6 cases and 10+ hours of gameplay, you only need to do it twice. Why even bother adding that feature to the game then?!

The system to find the correct solution to a case is a good idea in theory but doesn't really work here. Each case has at least 3 different ways to be solved, depending on what deduction the player lands on. However, all deductions make sense. It's not like you could miss a detail and draw the wrong conclusion - no, all conclusions sound fine, only the game will eventually tell you which one was actually correct, without telling you WHY it was that one.

The biggest problem though is that this game seems to have been developed as a console game, there are countless mini-games meant for a controler in this so the PC optimization is awful. The "arm wrestling" and the "crossing a bridge" mini-games were the most tedious, frustrating, and unfair ones.

I really wanted to love this game but the more mini-games and QTEs came at me, the less fun it was. The improved graphics can't hide the crashing issues, the repetitive gameplay, the sloppy controls, the plot holes and messy deduction feature, and I'm sad that this game is only available in English. It was not dubbed like the previous games.

Game crashing once every hour at least. Unplayable.

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Go in expecting jank and you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a good time and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.

The game is alright, the puzzles only become complicated when out of pocket and nonsensical but that rarely happens. That being said, while i recommend the game, I also recommend whoever designed Toby the dog to take their pet to the vet or to check out non horror dog references.

Really enjoyable. The fact that you can get the facts wrong and screw up the case impresses me. I have yet to play any of the other games in the series, hopefully they're as good as this one.