And that’s without even taking into account the loudmouth Jon and the little helpful insight he provides to the gameplay experience. This doesn’t change the fact that he can be painfully snarky. He’s still the cocoon that is yet to hatch into the mystery-solving butterfly he’s known to be. This version of Sherlock doesn’t embody the characteristics that I like in the famous detective’s other iterations, but that’s also sort of the point. Now, having finished the game, I can say that Chapter One does a great job at making you feel like Sir Author Conan Doyle’s fictional detective, but in order to experience it, you have to be able to look past the game’s many frustrations.Ĭhapter One winds the clock back to Sherlock’s younger years, as he returns to the island of Cordona to visit his mother’s grave along with his talkative imaginary friend Jon (without the H). That’s why, even though I only played through the first hour or so of Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One when it came out late last year, I knew it was a game I wanted to return to. Going as far as designing and laminating my own detective badge (something that appears in Nightmare from the Deep for that very reason) so I could feel as official as I could as I ran around in search of missing cats. I am a very big fan of Sherlock Holmes and, much like everyone who read the books at a young age, I too went through a phase where I wanted to become a detective.

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