Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

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An engaging story with interesting investigations and well-designed puzzles that keep you invested from start to finish. Unfortunately, the unnecessary action and agility sequences feel out of place and take away from the classic adventure style the series is known for. The game focuses more on dynamic gameplay than pure deduction, which may disappoint longtime fans of traditional Sherlock Holmes adventures.

Pensé que sería algo puramente narrativo, pero implementa varios minijuegos y mecánicas que le da dinamismo al juego. En cuestión de la historia, al no haberlo terminado no puedo tener una opinión como tal, pero hasta donde voy, si bien no me ha volado la mente, los casos son lo suficientemente entretenidos para mantenerte jugando.

"Oyunda bazı yerler sıkıcı ve dikkat gerektiriyor. Bulmacalar orta zorlukta. Fakat bekleme ekranı niye bu kadar uzun, aq? Şu oyunun yarısı zaten bekleme ekranında geçiyor. Onun dışında oyun zevkli, grafikleri de güzel."

【剧透预警】整体出乎我意料的作品，适合下班后不带脑子玩。 当初被益智小游戏般的解密和生草的建模生生劝退两次，但我坚持打完第一章切被真相震撼到之后，就有一种莫名的动力继续玩下去。 这作的主线并没有像其他福尔摩斯题材作品那样刻画福华关系（这作的华生就是个会说话的扳手），而是塑造福尔摩斯和养女凯特琳的父女关系，虽然都是一些老生常谈的内容，还有她的设定对我来说并不讨喜，但是在最后的对话中如果一直坚定不移地选择她、对她坦诚相待，最后还是能解开误会迎来HE...这多少有点触动到我。 玩法设计上我印象深刻的就是，尽管推理到最后基本会给出经典二选一，但不同的是剧情没有设定一个正确答案，纯让玩家自己选择逮捕哪位作为“凶手”，甚至可以选择不逮捕、放过对方...作为一个箱庭解密游戏有着这样折磨玩家道德感的设计，眼前一亮的同时也让人捉急（让我不禁大喊：所以我选的到底是不是真凶啊！！所以这种设计的意义是什么啊！）而且作为解密游戏，更出乎我意料的是它竟然有跳过场景解密部分？！一些反复操作的位置也都设置了跳过，何等的贴心。。。 不过就算是有跳过，我还是很想吐槽绿字研究里面的古墓谜题，啥啊！！这到底是福尔摩斯还是劳拉克劳馥？？已经不是伦敦了喂！！制作组已经沉浸在自己的艺术里无法自拔了。。。（汗）

I found the story passable (as far as I got) but the game not as engaging as (the sequel) "The Awakened" which has better character work and generally feels more open and varied. The variation this game provides is actually a problem, because it's mostly action sequences that are long and annoying. I liked chasing a suspect as the urchin Wiggins - varied and fun, but still too long. Going up the chimney was a really nonsensical mini-game, for example. Where the game drops the ball is the Epping Forest chase where you find yourself stepping into bear traps and being shot and sinking in the swamp and making decisions on stupid clues (how is a boulder worse than a bush when somebody is shooting at you??) and then being dead anyway. I read online this nonsense can be skipped but found no way to do it. (Choosing "normal" difficulty, my ass.) In fact, supposedly you can skip at the beginning of things. But the game gives you zero control over when you save - so you can't just skip back to the beginning of a scene. So I started the case over, after being dropped to the same point that I left in frustration after reload, and found that even at the beginning of a scene (the Wiggins stealth chase) you can't skip. Regardless of difficulty. WTH? All of this together just ruins the game - you can't save manually, can't have multiple saves (because console port??), can't skip very annoying, overly long action sequences... Yep, that adds up to a "No, thank you." from me. The interface for navigating clues is cluttered as well and the way to make deductions itself poorly explained and confusing. It took me quite a while to realize that all you can really do is combine two facts or make a few choices in the mind map. That's it. The other controls don't matter. (Again, "The Awakened" will redesign this whole mess into a clear and fun interface.) Loading screens (carriage rides) take really long even though the game is installed on an SSD and the computer newer than the game itself. This is clearly not the case in "The Awakened", so they improved on that. Some of the things you have to do make no sense. You find a pub flyer, but can't decided to go to the pub until you look at the back to know it was stuck to a wall - in spite of finding out in a letter that this flyer matters and you know about the pub already. Where's the logic here? What _glues_ this together? Another nonsensical sequence was Watson's lab work. You need to apply three colors in order to the sample - why do I have to click through that? It's just playing silly buggers. I never figured out how lockpicking is supposed to work because no matter what I did, the lock always opened... Try getting Wiggins on a carriage... the controls are basically broken. After the cutscene ended the game ignored my key strokes until I just kept repeatedly hitting the keys to get the character moving, adding unneeded suspense and failure to a buggy sequence. There was stuff I liked - eavesdropping in a pub, for example. Or chasing around as Holmes' dog Toby. (But not having to do two carriage rides to retrieve Toby.) Distracting somebody to help Holmes' break in somewhere unnoticed - also good. Safe-cracking wasn't bad, either. This game is a good-looking clunker. Stay away.

To be honest, I liked the game to a point. The last full case is wonky and the opening set-piece is just bad. But the kick in the pants here is the ending. It just tumbles out of nowhere with minimal buildup, like the dev team had intended for there to be two, maybe three more cases but really needed to push the game out for whatever reason, so they slapped together the finale which is aptly named "Fever Dream" and plays out like such but the reasoning for that is never explained. Ultimately, it is an alright game with some puzzles and deductions that require a little bit more thought than a Lego game, but the any small amount of fun from the cases and puzzles is quickly overshadowed by the finale and the disappointment. 5/10, would not recommend.