Best To Worst Game Of This Sherlock Holmes Series

[Talion]

What's ur opinion ? Is there must buy game of this series ?

[i5-11400]

My favorite is still the Jack the Ripper game

[Spatz]

I second that. I play the Sherlock games for immersion, and Jack the Ripper was the most immersive to me. Of course, it's a highly subjective opinion. Here are my reasons.
1. Except for the conclusion, the story of the game is factual. They did an immense amount of research for this game, down to using the names and behavioral characteristics of those who were actually involved in the case. (Except for Sherlock and Watson of course!)
2. It did the best job of recreating late Victorian England. One of the things that added to the immersive feel was that you could talk to any NPC roaming the streets and they'd have some sort of response. It gave the game more of an "open world" feeling.
3. Most of the "detective puzzles" were reasonable.
4. After playing the game, you'll know and experience almost all there is to know about Jack the Ripper and at least some introduction of late Victorian England. I've replayed this game about 8 times.

The worst was the latest, Crimes and Punishment. Again, this is highly subjective, but I did not get the same sense of immersion in playing it. It is episodic with an overarching plot line that is not fully developed. NPCs are incommunicado. I liked the "Detective Storyboard" of Ripper vs. the "Neural Connections" in C&P. Then the arcade style game components disrupt immersion completely.

To be fair, it looks like Frogware was trying to reboot the series for current tastes and included a number of innovations. One that I should like, but ended up having mixed feelings about, was the multiple endings.

Anyway, I'm sure that if you look around this board you'll find people who think the opposite I do. It's all a matter of what you want out of the game. To me, the older games are more Basil Rathbone whereas the newest game is more Benedict Cumberbatch.