Unskippable: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
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I can never see any sherlock holmes game the same way again... After Watson became, creepy.
More edit, just saw someone else has already posted that video. Dang...
Edit: Just saw that above my post when I made it, it's Sherlock Holmes Nemesis you can read more into in in the description of the video I've embedded.Russano_Greenstripe said:
More edit, just saw someone else has already posted that video. Dang...
Well if it is anything like Frogwares earlier Sherlock Holmes game, The Awakened, then it is likely very good. I loved The Awakened, it had a very interesting and at times creepy story (after all, it was about Holmes against a cult of Cthulhu worshippers) and puzzles that actually required thinking. Voice acting was bad at times, but not a deal breaker, and I never had problems with low graphics, especially if the rest of the game works.Raregolddragon said:
Glad that this relatively unknown game from a relatively small German gamestudio gets some attention.
SH: The Awakened was absolutely amazing, creepy as all hell, with an intricate plot and a nice variety of puzzle difficulties.
SH: Arsène Lupin / Nemesis was quite good, not as fun in terms of puzzles and story but you get a virtual, commented tour for free of most London tourist sites (National Gallery, ToL, British Museum).
SH: JtR was sort of an experiment in that it tried to make the game somewhat parallel an actual investigation - I think it was a lot more immersive, but it made the puzzles a lot less challenging or interesting. The historical work was actually top notch, all the leads and red herrings you chase were real events and people.
Oh, and yeah, the graphics are constantly horrible, but they've never made a point of spending much on them, and their customer base has never really cared much about it.
I'm frankly surprised they bothered to port this to the 360. As the confused comments here indicate, there doesn't seem to be a big audience for point-and-click, talk-heavy adventures there.
SH: Arsène Lupin / Nemesis was quite good, not as fun in terms of puzzles and story but you get a virtual, commented tour for free of most London tourist sites (National Gallery, ToL, British Museum).
SH: JtR was sort of an experiment in that it tried to make the game somewhat parallel an actual investigation - I think it was a lot more immersive, but it made the puzzles a lot less challenging or interesting. The historical work was actually top notch, all the leads and red herrings you chase were real events and people.
Oh, and yeah, the graphics are constantly horrible, but they've never made a point of spending much on them, and their customer base has never really cared much about it.
I'm frankly surprised they bothered to port this to the 360. As the confused comments here indicate, there doesn't seem to be a big audience for point-and-click, talk-heavy adventures there.
I did a riff on this about a year or two ago. Can't remember all the jokes, but the bit before he strangles the lady I was like "Wait, what, no, not, ew, don't, stop.... oh, phew, he's only strangling her. For a second there I thought this was going to get icky, but blood and guts is AOK."
There is a reason why the general reading public did not allow Conan Doyle to kill Holmes in The Final Problem .
It was because he had to survive long enough to be brutally murdered by this game.
It was because he had to survive long enough to be brutally murdered by this game.
Anyone else notice that the murder was around 3:30 am on August 31st, and then the conversation between Holmes and Watson was in the morning of September 1st? The Star better get better reporters if it can't get a story out any faster than that. Although, it makes it fairly humorous that the body "Was found last night, still warm" in the red light district. Them wacky 19th century London necrophiliacs.
Wow! This game looks and sounds like shit. It feels like those first games that came in bundles when you bought the first 1x or 2x CD players and Sound Blaster sound cards back in 1993. Some of them were actually better in casting actors and graphics, believe it or not.
This looks like a review job for the Angry Videogame Nerd. James, are you there?
This looks like a review job for the Angry Videogame Nerd. James, are you there?
It's nice to see that some people here are giving this series some due credit. The story and the puzzles in these games blow any gripes about the dodgy interface and the dated graphics out of the water.
SH: The Awakened and SH versus Jack the Ripper are definitely among my Point 'n Click all-time favorites.
SH: The Awakened and SH versus Jack the Ripper are definitely among my Point 'n Click all-time favorites.
Is this series still going on? I remember playing Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened a couple years ago, in which the great detective confronted the cult of Cthulhu, which was a painfully mediocre adventure. Sometimes the premise of a game is so tantalizing that you want it to become great in spite of uninspired writing, awkward controls, poor animation and lame puzzles. It doesn't appear that the series has improved much since then.
In that game Holmes would occasionally ask Watson to solve one of the puzzles, and the player was required to type in Watson's response. The game would freeze at that point, until you entered the correct response. If you were stumped you could not back out from that quiz; everything else was paused until you could answer.
You would explore the game's environments, with Watson following you, but the game did not or could not animate Watson. Watson would simply be standing behind you when you turned around, and he'd remain rooted to whatever spot until you looked around. I could walk backwards focused on Watson until he was very far off, then turn, turn again, and boom! Watson would be standing right next to me.
In that game Holmes would occasionally ask Watson to solve one of the puzzles, and the player was required to type in Watson's response. The game would freeze at that point, until you entered the correct response. If you were stumped you could not back out from that quiz; everything else was paused until you could answer.
You would explore the game's environments, with Watson following you, but the game did not or could not animate Watson. Watson would simply be standing behind you when you turned around, and he'd remain rooted to whatever spot until you looked around. I could walk backwards focused on Watson until he was very far off, then turn, turn again, and boom! Watson would be standing right next to me.
yeah you guys were doing so well, but this video was a fail, not really funny at all, look unskippable was the first thing i saw before i found out loadingreadyrun, but you guys just arent doing aswell as you used to, i kinder dont feel like watching your vids anymore
To be fair sherlock holmes maybe the greatest detective to have never lived, but it doesn't mean he knows where every little town is in a huge city like london 
and i can't believe thats a 360 game >.<
and i can't believe thats a 360 game >.<
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Of all the things that struck me from this intro, the most jarring is the fact that Sherlock Holmes DOES NOT smoke when he is bored--he shoots cocaine.