2nd Case good or bad?

[XxAciDxX]

I just finish it and have many questions in my mind..may be I miss some clue.

If Albeit and his friend are the only killer how did they know when and where the victim will be?
The one who knows about that is Sir Charles, right?
Where is the statue and how they move them?
Why Bernard Marley try to make the Automaton?
Is that little guy strong and skill enough to throw that metal spear and kill victim in one shot?
Is the little guy tall enough to looklike that metal statue?
Why Sir Charles hear that metal sound? What make that noise?

[|12.Iftr| Cpl. Pvt.Parts]

You did not miss any clues, it's just poorly written and ridden with plot holes.

[BioScorp]

i have same questions, 2nd Case ending don't make any sense

[Moon Rabbit]

Yeah honestly the whole game is full of poorly written cases, this is probably the worst of them as the red herrings are heavily contrived. It's a lazily written game.

[TCU FROGS!!!]

The game is fun, but the cases make absolutely no sense. The 2nd case proved NOTHING towards the CORRECT ending. Why would he stage that when he didn't know who was at the door. That whole arrow sequence and him in the coffin made no sense if he was the killer, and if the argument is given "he was pretending to be attacked" for what reason would he be pretending at that moment, and even if I was suppose to assume he was pretending it which he clearly was, what told me otherwise to believe that in the first place?

I love Sherlock Holmes, and I love the investigation in this game, but when it comes time to SOLVE the cases, they make no sense given the clues you have obtained. You are forced to constantly accuse someone else until you can match the deductions to the right one.

[Jack Carter]

Since there is no proof of an accomplice, when you're getting attacked at Albeit house, who's shooting the arrows at you? Surely not Albeit since he has ONE ARM, pretty sure he's not pulling the bow with his teeth.

But of course the killer is not Bernard Marley, the weirdo building extremely high-tech robots, with lifelike movements, able to shoot spears, powerful enough to go through hard wood drawers ( as we saw in his office ) and would perfectly match Sir Charles statement; he saw a statue running.

Must be Albeit, the dying one-armed man. Capable of throwing spears, shooting arrows, jumping over a 7' tall wall, moving a concrete statue and breaking the metal rods underneath it, dragging it and make it disappear ( probably took it with him, over that wall )

And they didn't even cared explaining why Zacharias had the same eye infection as Albeit ( a tropical disease ). That can't be explained saying the killer gave it to him, Sherlock, Watson and others saw him, in the hospital and didn't contracted it.

Overall a poorly written and scripted case, makes no sence.

[The GhØst]

Ya, I would assume the midget was the guy that was shooting arrows at you.

[Pujii]

Just finished the case and I agree, just awful.

You honestly expect me to believe that the 1st thing you see when entering the club grounds is the statue, but the victim didn't notice it was either missing or how much shorter than usual it was (assuming the pygmy man posed as it)? I know it can be easy to become blind to things when in a routine but that's too much of a stretch (no pun intended :) ). Doesn't matter how dark it was that night.

The statue was claimed to be made 10 years earlier so it couldn't have been an automaton the whole time, just lying it wait for the precise moment a decade later. So why go through all the trouble of switching it out with one when any other method of death would've done just as well (the Mayan dagger, for instance)?

If Marley took it, how did Charles not hear, considering he admittedly heard the murder take place and came within a short time. If Albeit+ took it (which seems impossible considering the physical demands), why did Marley end up with it?

Albeit's attack was obviously fake because there's no way he could've defended himself against such a skilled foe. I assume his friend had been watching Holmes since the hospital, and/or they just planned ahead for when Holmes arrived to throw off the case. And that window the "small assassin" supposedly escaped from barely looked big enough for a cat, let alone a human of any size.

The whole case was just a bunch of ideas that neither gelled together nor made a case on their own. IMO, the most logical conclusion was that Charles and Marley were in it together: the financial gain for Charles and the sacrificial appeasement to the Mayan god for Marley. Or maybe Zac found out Albeit was alive and threatened to squeal, and he just had to go. Either way, that should've been the best conclusion. But since that wasn't an option, I chose to let Albeit & friend go since the others deserved it for ditching him. They should've finished the job, as well.

Originally posted by Plus Ultra:

Yeah honestly the whole game is full of poorly written cases, this is probably the worst of them as the red herrings are heavily contrived. It's a lazily written game.

If that's true then my already low enthusiasm to continue after this case is plummeting more. I had high hopes for this one after really liking C&P.

[The Cuz]

Just left a negative review after playing the 2nd case. This was SO bad. Crimes and Punishments was so much better, I mean the solutions there were sometimes too straight-forward but at least they made sense.

This case tries to be too elaborate. It tries to be too smart, too clever, like the Sherlock TV show with Benedict Cumberbatch, that the game hurts a result. There's too many red herrings, too many clues that are left dangling like my hopes and dreams for this game.

As others have pointed out, the culprit should have been either the guy who made the automatons, or it should have been a mixture of two of the characters in this case.

[The Cuz]

and after finishing Cases 3-5 I can confirm that Case 2 is the worst case in any of all Sherlock Holmes media - even the last series of the Moffat TV show.

Meanwhile I must sing the praises of the short but sweet Case 4 - that was fantastic and to the point, no filler.

[Pujii]

I'm slowly trying to work my way thru #3 cuz I hate to leave games unfinished if I can help it, so I'll hold you to your word.

[The Cuz]

3 felt quite long, longer than 2 I reckon. But when I finished it I didn't have that nasty feeling of having bought a game vastly inferior to Crimes and Punishments.

4 is so much better, genuinely.

5 is more of a wrap-up to the overarching story in the game with Sherlock's daughter.

[Rabbit]

Please... I sent Marley straight to prison. You're manufacturing automatons that literally throw spears. What excuse would he have for that? He was even trying to hide it.

[kreia]

Originally posted by The Cuz:

Just left a negative review after playing the 2nd case. This was SO bad. Crimes and Punishments was so much better, I mean the solutions there were sometimes too straight-forward but at least they made sense.

This case tries to be too elaborate. It tries to be too smart, too clever, like the Sherlock TV show with Benedict Cumberbatch, that the game hurts a result. There's too many red herrings, too many clues that are left dangling like my hopes and dreams for this game.

As others have pointed out, the culprit should have been either the guy who made the automatons, or it should have been a mixture of two of the characters in this case.

I agree completely it tried that cumberbache bs with action bs it should have stuck to c and p it tried too hard to be more complicated with cases that just like 'it was like that cuz of the case' the one off itv with jeremy brett was fantastic that fit the bill of sherlock not cumberbache he looks like some throwback

[Rufert]

Sherlocks inability to interact with ♥♥♥♥ even if it's a red herring is annoying me massively. I've just finished case 2 and have only done 1 before it. He takes the time to notice the scars on lady's arms in the beginning, as well as the scars on dude's corpses. There's a massive stone with the SAME pentagram he makes a point out of noticing she's wearing at the country club.

Refuses to look at it. Uuuuurgh.

[Jack Carter]

Originally posted by RabbitVS:

Please... I sent Marley straight to prison. You're manufacturing automatons that literally throw spears. What excuse would he have for that? He was even trying to hide it.

As obvious as it sounds, it's not Marley, it's still not the good ending to this case, which makes it even more frustrating. Really bad case.