Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis

old game, makes me very smart or very dumb. Game logic: ✔zooms in on a giant painting ✘doesn't zoom in on the TINY letter, that is hidden in the ceiling, which you need a one use ladder for, that you get from a place, that didn't have the ladder there the entirety of the level 10/10, would lose my mind over it again :)

حلوة فكرة المنظور الأول تعطي طابع جميل جداً لعالم اللعبة وانك تقدر تشوف الاشياء عن كثب بنفسك الان السلسلة بدأت تصير أفضل شوية من ناحية لعبة لكن ما زلت اشوف انها غير مناسبة لأي شخص يحب قصص شارلوك الافضل ماتلعبها لأنها لا زالت قديمة لدرجة مملة ومتكررة من الأجزاء اللي فاتت

I bought this game as part of the Sherlock Holmes Collection sale, but at the time of writing, by itself it would cost 89 pence. For that very low price, and given this game brought me ~15 hours of entertainment, I'd say it's worth picking this one up on sale - perhaps not full price though. Yes, some of the puzzles were at times obtuse, and yes, it certainly has its issues - but the game has a thorough hint system should you need it. If you do decide to give it a try, I would strongly recommend playing the game in first person rather than third person.

(first of all, i am not someone familiar with puzzle games, nor i am familiar with frogwares' sherlock holmes games, but i AM familiar with arsène lupin in the "i pretty much grew up reading books about this guy and still read them to this day" way, so i think this review shouldn't be taken 100% seriously) while playing this game, i finally understood how herlock sholmes felt in the entirety of "arsène lupin vs herlock sholmes", since arsène lupin here made me real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ angry. this game is old, so expect it to look old and run like an old game, in my experience, some of the door and items holmes could pick up would have some weird texture errors, like a door being fully black or it shining brightly like a diamond, but aside from that, the game ran quite smoothly! it didn't crash on me once, and i was happy since the game doesn't have an autosave feature... yes, there's no autosave, remember to save frequently. two things that annoyed me were the fact that the game assumes you have knowledge on british landmarks and literature, in my case, i had little to no knowledge of the british! and that made me confused on where to go sometimes. the other thing was the cursor, it made me so mad that if i wanted to click on something (like a hint), i had to aim it a little below of where i wanted to click, which made some of the puzzles frustrating. character-wise, i don't think it is accurate for lupin to spend half of his time (probably) giggling and writing riddles for holmes, neither it is accurate for holmes to waste his time running around and solving lupin's riddles. i did find it fun to receive lupin's riddles at first, but... after some time of doing the same thing over and over again it got boring. lupin is also absent for the most game, just like in "arsène lupin vs herlock sholmes", and i must say, that made me really happy! buuuut i do understand how that can be disappointing for some, because his face is literally in the cover art, and we only see him for 3 or 4 cutscenes. watson in this game is stupid, he makes stupid actions and says stupid things, i wonder if maurice leblanc was in charge of some of his dialogues? anyway, watson's portrayal here was strange, but this is a sherlock holmes game at the end of the day, not a watson one. the ending was... dissapointing, to say without spoilers, it felt like frogwares didn't really know what to do for the ending, so they came up with a quick solution with a dialogue that felt really strange to read (especially in lupin's side). overall, it feels a bit like a chore to play this, even if you're a fan of both holmes and lupin, but i don't think it's THAT bad of a game, just mediocre, play it if you have nothing to do, but don't expect a masterpiece.

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Unfortunately I can't recommend this one. I got about halfway before just deciding I had more precious things to do with my time. The bones for a decent adventure game are there but the environments are too large and the game becomes tedious. It wasn't that big of a deal in the Gallery area but once you get to the Tower it gets overwhelming. I did not care to continually walk around this big empty space trying to guess which doors were usable. There is an icon that helps with that but only at a certain distance and I still managed to miss some initially. There's also an issue with you not being able to pick up items until you know you need them which adds to the tedium and mindless wandering. This has made me realize why adventure games generally let you become a klepto right away. It's a shame but I look forward to seeing what else Frogwares has in store. (I got a bundle awhile ago and decided to check them all out in order they were released.) I have played Testament and loved it so I know they are a great dev.

This one is better than previous 3-4 games but there's still work to be done. Have played many hidden object games, detective games, CYOA text adventures and so on and I very much appreciate games allowing for some degree of inference or using visually / contextually obvious clues. This title wants you clicking on all possible triggers: for example measuting footprints in museum by rapidly flailing roulette across them frantically clicking on every activation point imaginable (measuring actual texture wasn't working). Despite still feeling like the game I'm giving my honest attempt at playing, is not too far from barely working licensed product, stifled by technology of its time and quite possibly other constraints, there is something earning it a positive review. Specifically it is the following: - first-person controls that have all necessary actions so you don't need frankly abhorrent third-person camera anymore; - much better graphics, animation and dialogue; - art gallery has fairly good representations of period-accurate real artworks with what I can assume are mostly correct informational snippets. Art gallery alone gains this title a recommendation, even if gameplay itself is far from ideal.

Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis es un juego de aventura ideal si te gustan los desafíos mentales. La historia enfrenta a Sherlock con Arsène Lupin en un duelo de ingenio muy entretenido, lleno de acertijos y deducciones. No tiene mucha acción, pero su punto fuerte es hacerte pensar y sentir como un verdadero detective.

Quite a few puzzles were genuinely difficult (thank goodness for guides) and some parts of the game tedious (especially the bird one omg) but I still really enjoyed it. I could feel the improvement from the previous game. Love being able to play in first person

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