Hell, Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One even offered me the chance to skip through the eavesdropping and just ask the people involved directly, so user friendliness seems to be core here. There’s even an ability to eavesdrop with its own unique mechanics - and Jon will start snarking at you if you muck up regularly, noting down your idiocy in his journal, though I have no idea if this has any ramifications. From finding clues littered around the crime scene, to connecting those up in the mind palace to come up with hypotheses, it’s genuinely interesting to figure out the possibilities of how things could have unfolded. If you wanted to be a bit churlish, you could say that the investigation is mostly made up of little minigames, but all of them are engaging enough. Although, now I have a horrifying mental image of teeth with brains, so let’s quickly move on. He’s more arrogant, more brash, and more naïve, and Cordona looks to have plenty for him to sink his deductive teeth into. Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One sees our much, much younger detective heading to the Mediterranean island of Cordona to visit his mother’s grave and seek closure. If you’ve played The Sinking City, you’ll be right at home here this is pretty much an evolution of that concept and set of mechanics. Now, with Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, we’ve transitioned into an open world. And the last few have been in their own niche of chapter-based detective work.
We’ve gone from traditional point-and-click think-athons, to first-person puzzling. Frogwares has been making games based on the deerstalker-capped detective since the early 2000s, and the nature of those games has shifted dramatically over time. Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One is not like the other Sherlock Holmes games.
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