Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis

Frogwares gaming and I have had a very love-hate relationship since its involvement in the Sherlock Holmes franchise.

This game is quite good but the glitches make certain parts of the game quite insufferable.

The glitches I faced:
- You couldn't skip cut scenes with mouse 1 (mostly in end game)
- Teleport was bugged (mostly in end game)
- Rotation and movement of objects didn't work to completion. It moved in one point rotations at a time
//(Like locks that requires rotation, books that required rotation and the library/reading room book finding machine handle)
//I had to wait 8 mins per book at one of the stages (not providing full details in case of spoilers) to pass that stage. And since that included the machine too add 5 mins of wait time for each objective.

Overall:
I would play this game if you're a Sherlock fan but if you don't like glitchy games, this is not for you. Again, this could be just my personal experience, so take this with a grain of salt.

Otherwise the game in itself (minus issues) is a good 6.5 out of 10 in my opinion.

Dreadfully sterile and lacking immersion

Does not run.

Enjoyable

Sh were great games at the time.
I remember first playing the series and believing Frogwares to be gods of sleuths.

But this game got broken with erratic mouse behavior and no matter what I did, I couldn't save beyond certain point. Disapointing.

Oh, well... This is why I have a phobia of bugs...

If you've played any of the older Frogwares SH games, this is one of the best in the series (behind maybe only Jack the Ripper). Some great puzzles and playful narrative moments. Plus +10 if you're British, as you'll be travelling to several London landmarks. I think when playing these older games, you have to expect some of the pacing issues; The ending seemed to wrap up really quickly and wasn't quite as satisfying as it could've been.

Biggest gripe: There's one really big area that makes it hard to find all the clues. You'll need to spam spacebar constantly and likely use the hint guide.
Favourite scene: Lupin surfing on the Rosetta Stone.

BS. Bought the game as a package, ran for awhile, now theres no way to play it. Steam refuses to refund my money, not cool. I don't know why the hell I paid like $10 to just have them sell me some digital platform where they can simply ignore the fact it doesn't upload, and then refuse to refund the money. Even downloaded the others to see if it would work, to no avail, will just keep asking for a refund until someone addresses the problem. All other games work fine, its just this one that is not working.

Another spectacular Sherlock Holmes game! Way better than 'The Awakened' in my opinion, for example; Better hints within the game and rarely you'll get stuck. However, in this game you will encounter a lot of riddles which act as puzzles. You will need to understand and solves it before moving forward. If you aren't into riddles then it's a game over for you. Nevertheless, this is Sherlock Holmes game, so expect anything really.

Too abstract at times with very little help from the characters.

UI is awful
Nobody likes math
Clunky controls and steep price for a janky game that often leaves you confused, or unsure what to do.
Going back and reading dialogue is insanely annoying without a scroll bar due to the amount of dialogue you have to scroll.
Moving around is impossible at times because you get stuck, and forced into cutscenes, even if you didn't interact with something, making it hard to actually find what you're looking for on your own to get a better understanding of the situations you're in.
I had some pretty high hopes when I saw the game on sale, but a remake is definitely needed.
The graphics were okay, HD for someone who can handle it on their pc, but again, a remake is what this game needs.
TL:DR - Game is outdated. REMAKE not remaster is needed.

Takes forever to finish so I haven't. Nevertheless really fun and much thought put into it.

Very difficult game no way i could do it without a guide
Maybe im just dumb? XD

Very boring, and i was left baffled at numerous occasions, not recommended.

❤️

Way too old and clunky for today's standards.

Good vibes but clunky at best

 

All Sherlock Games are incredible. So much fun to play

A classic story of detective and thief rivalry always works and this time, it did a solid one for Sherlock Holmes game. The fact it gives nod to why there is no Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin in real book is also a chef kiss. The pacing is great (a few callbacks to the previous game which add some flavour to the story), the riddles are challenging, the new quality of life in gameplay and investigating; all of it are an improvement from Awakened Remastered. 10/10 and a must play Sherlock Holmes game.

Bring back Creepy Watson!

tl;dr This game is old, you've been told it's old, don't complain that it's old. It runs just as well as it did back in the day, but you probably should install Directx 9 and whatever Microsoft service packs were around back then. It's difficult if you are impatient and don't want to read the clues and listen to the dialog. Still fun if you are looking for a puzzle game and have the patience for puzzle games.

It's 2008, you are twelve years old. You are at Staples with your father and see this game. By some miracle he buys it for you and you run home to boot up your large beige rectangle with Windows XP. You delete a could Nancy Drew games to make room for it. Two hours later the game is finally ready. You load in and are immediately stumped by the first puzzle. Eventually you manage to stumble your way through the whole game using a walkthrough from a plain HTML website that you printed off your dad's computer when he was sleeping so you wouldn't get in trouble for using the internet and wasting printer ink.

Fast-forward 16 years and you boot it up in 12 seconds, realize that the game now natively supports ultra-wide resolutions without black bars, let's you skip dialog and cutscenes, and has a walkthrough built in that I def could have used as a child. The graphics are pretty good even now, especially when you compare them to some of the more unfortunate releases of this day and age.

The game has actual puzzles, like answering riddles or using the right objects in the right place, and all the answers can be found in game with a bit of reading and thinking. The story is fine and is closer to that of the original Sherlock Holmes novels than that of the more recent games. Less whimsy, more stoic. Less internal reflection, more insulting Watson for being a dummy. It lacks an autosave feature so you should manually save and save often. I haven't had any crashes in this decade, but I do remember losing hours of progress as a child because I had no fear of my own mortality and couldn't be bothered to save.

You can play in first person or even in a classic Resident Evil style if you wanna see how ugly you are. Overall it's a vintage experience that isn't to painful in this day and age.

Doesn't launch no matter what I do.

Quite nice I dare say. What I liked most about this edition in the Frogwares Sherlock Holmes Series are the side-characters. They were really fun! Also, while I liked the theme/genre/whatever of the previous game (the Awakened) more its characters and the locations you went to weren’t as fun/interesting as the ones in this game. Additionally, I found the puzzles in this one much more enjoyable.

Mechanically speaking I have to take a moment to praise the newfound ability to make all interactable objects glow. It helps so much with these games. Because walking to each little thing to see if it’s something that you can interact with gets tiresome. Because then all that you CAN interact with IS necessary. While now, since you can quickly see all that’s interactable, you can add things that you can look at and have Holmes (or Watson/Lestrade) look at it and comment on it while not really having anything to do with the quest. That gives just that little bit more life to the world and its characters.

Yeah, quite happy with this fun little adventure.