![]() ![]() ![]() It makes you feel like really reading a Conan Doyle book containing short novels. There are six cases in total in Crimes and Punishments. There are also some more exciting gameplay elements that I will elaborate on later. What are those cues? Well, Holmes is more sarcastic and ironic than ever and also, the game has a darker, more realistic atmosphere. While the setting is still the old 1880s, the game takes some cues from Sherlock’s television series. The trailer of Crimes and Punishments, however, struck my attention. And while the later Holmes games have gradually changed, because of the first wrong impression, I wasn’t following them anymore. It was maybe great back in 1992 when The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes – which was using a bona fide point’n’click gameplay – was published, but it became more and more obsolete past the millennium. ![]() It was a bad idea to use a point’n’click interface and the general gameplay elements of the old adventure game genre. I have to confess that I wasn’t a big fan of earlier Sherlock Holmes titles from Frogware since the first few games made a wrong impression on me. Now does that makes Crimes and Punishments a good game? I am sure that they are true experts since every minor detail about the greatest detective of all time is oozing from this title. (Including Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows with Robert Downey Jr., of which you can read the review right here). They have also probably been countless times in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, Baker Street 21.b They have read every Sherlock Holmes novel and seen most of the movies. They have probably their facsimile edition of the Original Illustrated Strand Magazine well-kept where every Sherlock Holmes novel was published. If there’s one thing that we can safely laud about Frogware, it’s the fact that they are total experts about every detail concerning the world of Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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