So I just recently purchased Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment and, boy, have I never regret getting a game so much. I guess that's what I get for following a hunch and buying it after only one positive online review and liking the premise. I mean a game that makes you feel like being Sherlock Holmes, how cool is that! Unfortunately this game makes you feel less like Holmes himself and more like someone who is watching a bad Sherlock Holmes adaption on TV instead, where everything is spelled out for the audience, the characters have as much life and charm as a chronically depressed brick and the dialog is on the level of a high school drama club original play. But I'm not here to talk about the game itself and its immense shortcommings. No, I'd rather just forget about this ordeal. And that's where I need help. There is one thing about the first case, one detail that I just can't stop thinking about and I'd like someone to make sense of it, because it doesn't make any to me. For anyone interested in the game, who also didn't see the warning in the title, there will be [SPOLER] after this as I need to talk about the entirety of case 1 and its endings, also from now on it will be assumed that everyone reading further has already played and finished the first case, just to be clear on this.
It's a simple question that bothers me: Why did John Nelligans notebook lay at the crime scene in a puddle of blood? When the notebook is picked up, Holmes tells us that it fell there after the murder had been commited, which means Nelligan was in the shed after that and before Lestrade locked it up. What was he doing there? If he just stumbled in, with notebook in hand, let it drop and then ran, what was it doing at the other end of the room? Why would he attempt to break into a shed where he knew someone was just murdered anyways? The game never lets you ask Nelligan what his notebook was doing at the crime scene and it was (to my knowledge) never resolved. All the game tells us is that he is innoccent, but nothing more.
That's it, that's my problem. I just want to be done with this game, but this question won't let me. So, I post this in the hopes that someone out there might have an answer for me, that I overlooked something, that there actually IS an explanation and that I, finally, will be able to stop thinking about this terible game.
It's a simple question that bothers me: Why did John Nelligans notebook lay at the crime scene in a puddle of blood? When the notebook is picked up, Holmes tells us that it fell there after the murder had been commited, which means Nelligan was in the shed after that and before Lestrade locked it up. What was he doing there? If he just stumbled in, with notebook in hand, let it drop and then ran, what was it doing at the other end of the room? Why would he attempt to break into a shed where he knew someone was just murdered anyways? The game never lets you ask Nelligan what his notebook was doing at the crime scene and it was (to my knowledge) never resolved. All the game tells us is that he is innoccent, but nothing more.
That's it, that's my problem. I just want to be done with this game, but this question won't let me. So, I post this in the hopes that someone out there might have an answer for me, that I overlooked something, that there actually IS an explanation and that I, finally, will be able to stop thinking about this terible game.