Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

If you are in touch with pop culture, then you'd know how amazing the show Sherlock is. If you're in touch with this blog, you're a sad individual that needs better sources for their reviews. If you're still reading this, then I appreciate it and welcome to a review for Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter where our beloved detective has an X-Ray mode much like Batman and really, he is treated as a superhero if he wasn't already in the show and the books. I love these games because you go with the flow and have mindless fun with the character you knew and loved in every medium you've known.

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I have a soft spot for Frogware because these developers have stuck with this character for quite a while and every adventure game aside from Sherlock was great in my opinion. The new series after The Testament of Sherlock Holmes brings new twists and scenarios of "what if" to the duo characters that its nice to invest myself in them. Not only that, but the flow the cases go through are a lot of fun. I have felt this latest game was rushed in comparison to the previous one but was regardless a lot of fun. 20 hours or so felt like a fleeting moment when usually adventure games go for 8 hours maximum from what I was used to.

The flow of the game is pretty much like the previous game where they have rebooted Sherlock Holmes to be a 3rd person game (Friendly to it but can still play in 1st person). Your job is to gather clues and evidence relevant to the case to find the culprit of the said case. You get clues through examining objects and/or bodies or through dialogue. Investigating objects range from chemical experiments in Holmes' lab or using his insight feature not to mention hi intuition feat which are both a mix of batman's detective mode.

 The player has the option of stopping the case whenever they have at least one conclusion and that might not be the favorable option as there are at least two suspects in every case. Not only that, but the player will continue the game no matter what answer they pick and they will face the consequences later on. I really like the idea but can't deny that I peeked online to see who the real culprit for one case was and whether it is a better moral decision to jail them or leave them alone.

As you can see, based on your evidence, you can end up with more than one culprit

There is a puzzle difficulty for this game but I honestly did not see the point behind it nor did I tried playing it on the hardest difficulty even though I completed all the achievement without playing it on a harder difficulty. All puzzles can be skipped though which defeats the purpose of the game in my opinion since you are playing as someone who deduces and investigates constantly. Some story sequences have QTE events which makes it more of an action game at times which I don't mind that much. I like that you use more disguises in this game where it makes this entry different in the sense that the character is alive and developing over time. I just wish there was more content in this entry since I really like delving on deductions. The insight mode comes back here as well, which basically is an x-ray vision that Sherlock Holmes has for some reason where he can see events that have happened in the past and he plays them back.

With the last three games of this reboot series, the story is very different than the books and the shows and this one is the darkest one of them all although I am not sure if it was the right decision to make such a personal story about the character itself. Regardless, I liked it for the most part and it saddens me that the developers might not have more for this character and I appreciate that there are Sherlock Holmes video games out there. I wish I can say more about the game itself, but it is so easy to get into and the rest is just story related so grab it on platforms or on Steam and see you on my next review.