Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
I finished this game today. I got all the achievements too, or almost. The game recognizes that I've done them all with an achievement that says I've done them all, but one isn't showing up in the list on Xbox. I'll replay the short case it's connected to and see what happens. Or maybe it'll fix itself on its own overnight.
The game was really fun. I liked the story too. There are multiple cases that don't directly relate to each other, but there is a linking story between them that becomes its own case at the end to wrap things up. I only had a couple problems with a few puzzles in the Aztec temple section. These were several rooms with pressure plates. Usually there is a key or clue as to how to proceed but these seemed to have none. It was just a matter of trial-and-error. i find that sort of thing really tedious and boring. So I skipped them. Yes the game lets you skip some puzzles to keep the story going. It didn't seem to effect any achievements or the case, surprisingly. Luckily it only happened in one case. The rest I completed just fine. Well, except maybe for the final sequence. Not to give away anything but the final sequence has you respond to a situation with many dialog choices. You have to answer correctly to get the ending but most of the choices seem pretty similar. I had to play it half a dozen times before I chanced to find the right sequence of answers. I wasn't going to quit on the very last challenge in the game.
Also, I like seeing period devices in these Sherlock Holmes games. I saw an old fashioned lung machine and a phonograph. Some of these details are really neat to experience in a game.
That's all for Sherlock. I'm not sure what I'll play next. It's always up to the whim of the day.
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