These are self-contained “episodes,” so there’s no need to marathon this game, and, in fact, it’s strongly discouraged. Without spoiling anything (this is a mystery game after all) Sherlock Holmes takes on six very different cases, one of which originally appeared as a short story in 1904. Here, players are confronted with a Sherlock Holmes that retains much of the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spirit he’s brilliant, arrogant, manipulative and far more interested in the difficulty of a case than its legal or moral implications. Sherlock is an icon of Western fiction, the ultimate detective against which all other detectives are measured.
At this point anyone who hasn’t at least heard the name Sherlock Holmes is probably also living in the Amazon jungle and thinks a fun time is sleeping in a tree and not getting killed by a jaguar.
