Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess

Not the best mystery. We're presented with a crime where someone's been fatally shot in a hotel room. We later find out that there were actually two shootings hours apart, and the actual killer somehow didn't get noticed while shooting someone in a ****ing hotel room. But guns are kind of well-known for being pretty loud and in many cases the rooms next door report gunshots.

Disclaimer: it's a British hotel, who KNOWS what they're used to. If it's the World Cup ANYTHING GOES

I really appreciate having these episodes of early 90s FMV available on a modern platform and wish I'd played them earlier.
Are they perfect games? Not at all. Without the achivements popping up when you find the required clues, figuring out the optimal solution would be very tiresome. Typical 90s extending the gameplay through trial and error.

But it is worth it to explore the different performances and cute little side stories. I give the games a lot of credit for letting you follow useless clues way further than you need.
Tho I see no real reason to split it up into 3 games, and thus will review them as one.

The Case of the Mystified Murderess -
By far the strongest of the offerings, even if the solution is very silly.
It has more complex storytelling and avenues to explore, and the actors you talk with in this one are some of the strongest performances. You also get to solve both crimes related to the case.

The Mummy's Curse -
In the middle, it has the least requirements to solve the case, and leaves out one of the biggest clues from the required scenes.
It also keeps bringing up a side-plot that goes nowhere and has no resolution (tho we can assume who the culprit is). But it relies on context clues and reading the newspaper more like a puzzle, and the murderer is pretty fun.

Tin Soldier -
I find this the weakest of the 3 cases for 2 main reasons - we solve it not through dialogue but through exploring an empty room, and getting to that clue is a massive reach. Second we just completely ignore a 2nd murder that is directly related to the first. I guess it is not technically required to solve the case, but it is unforgivable that even if Holmes does visit both Matin and the Count and is told straight up Vladimir killed Matin to get the ruby back he never reports it to anyone.
I do appreciate that we are allowed to visit all the surviving lottery ticket holders, and will give it credit for having probably the most grounded motive of the 3.

I reccommend these 3 episodes to anyone interested in FMV games and schlock, and wants to play just to experience all the different performances and actors. It is not worth it at all if you want to play just to get a good score.

Overall enjoyable game. The game clues and facts were laid out well for the player.

Again - remember this is a 6 year old game, utilises videos and text instead of animation, and covers a single case!

Now that's out of the way... it's short, but not bad for a single session of gaming. If you enjoy the board game (221B Baker Street, etc) or the interactive movie version of Clue, then you'll enjoy this one. It's a lot of reading, picking out the relevant names and following up only on those. As it's 'demerit point' based, you want to have as low a score as possible - so visiting the wine dealer is really unnecessary (yes, I went to the wine dealer!).

Is it as good as the other SH games? No - I liked animations and various dialogue options. But that's not to say that it's not worth playing in its own right, as long as you think of it as a board game with videos (which are coming back in vogue, I hear...)

Great for anyone who enjoys really getting into a mystery and solving it without much hand-holding.

This game was incredible. I wish there were more games with this kind of real-life deduction and clue gathering. The FMV acting was cheesy and fun and I immediately replayed with my gf and son. I wish they would re-master and re-release the other 2 volumes!

I guessed the solution through a leap of logic, where practically no evidence was provided in-game. And it's an incredibly stupid mechanic, too. Hypnosis, seriously? . And I had the feeling a good part of the story was just left out.

Tags: Adventure - FMV - Photo/Film
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TLDR: Obtuse user interface.Poor quality voice acting.Poor quality acting.240p recording. Not worth bothering with. Nostalgia only. Guide required to progress.

Funny. This is an FMV mystery with Holmes and Watson. Is one of 3 games (actually they are 6 but the others were never released on Steam). Like the others, is just looking for clues basically going to talk to people, watch cutscenes and taking your solution to a judge. I really like the old look of this. Low budget indeed. The acting is more theatrical than movie-like and that contributes to its overall charm.

No bugs. Runs fine on Win 7.

Is not very long and it has some replay value if you're aiming for a better score. This is a very niche game. People might like it or hate it for many different reasons. If you only like flashy, new and complex, you probably gonna regret getting it. If retro amuses you, get it bundled and on sale for a few hours of very old-school entertainment.

if your looking for fun mystery that is simple to play this is it.obiously once you play it you can always challenge you friends to try it fun for the family

Yet more terrible acting, poor sets, non-gameplay, and utter boredom. The only thing that sold these games back in the early 90s was the "groundbreaking" FMV, which, though enhanced on modern systems, only highlights the cheapness of it all. There's simply no game here, and the fact that it penalizes you for further investigating the crimes instead of doing the basics is nonsensical. You even get an option to investigate again. Why? It's not like the game changes second time around. All you'd be doing is watching the same poor cut-scenes again.

Utter garbage.

Out of all three of the games on Steam, this was the weakest of the three. I won't spoil. But if you get a deal on all three, then why not play it. But if buying them individually buy the other two. I will recommend the game in spite of that because the game itself was bug free, and good for an early 90s game. Enjoyed the video clips mostly. I was a bit unhappy at the Baker Street Irregular implementation. Can't be sure, but in every case I tried them, they were useless - you may find out differently, in which case you can lower your score ( a low score is a better score.)

This case was construed quite horribly and therefore not really fair to solve.

I bought this game as part of a bundle and, honestly, it wasn't worth it. Too many things are common among the three games, making me think the developer milked three games out of one. With a playtime of about 40 minutes if you're slow (no skipping anything) for each game, I wouldn't recommend it.

Actually, I braved through the other two games, but I couldn't bring myself to endure this one. I uninstalled after 10 minutes or so. I could see where this was going and I wasn't interested.

Spare the 5 bucks for a nice cup of coffee.

you can finish it in 2 hours but really enjoyable! I finished all series..

I have been a fan of all things Sherlock for many years and I decided to try this game on an impulse. The game is rather short and took just under two hours to finish. It was entertaining and thought-provoking and the video clips throughout are at times humorous. The cost of the game is reasonable although requires reading heaps of little bits of information, plus a little patience is also desirable. The interface is simple and easy to use and there are helpful and informative tutorials available.

I would recommend this game for people who enjoy and love the stories of Sherlock Holmes and is interested in going on a small adventure with Holmes and Watson.

5.2/10 - Aged but enjoyable FMV detective game!

This is my second of three Sherlock Holmes FMV games; re-released from the early 90's. It's an extremely short type of game where a single play-through will run you about 30 minutes.

The game's format is identical to other 2 in the series with no improvements or further detractors. The game’s age isn't an issue at all really; the acting though, is quite unlike any Sherlock we've seen. (Painful to get through at times.) This is truly a one and done kind of game!

Worth about $0.50 or so; what I'd pay for 30-45 minutes of fun.

Accidently Reviewed

will start off by saying that this game has very little to actually "do" in it, it is more of an interactive story almost, but not quite. The object of all three of the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective mysteries is to gather clues by deciding on what people and places to visit. Once you have gotten enough information to solve the crime/s you will go before a judge and he will ask a few questions that you must answer correctly. Getting to the judge and answering questions using the fewest amount of clues that you can will give you a score. The goal is to solve the mystery by using only as many clues as it takes Holmes to solve the mystery. There is not a lot of replay ability in the game except if your score doesn't match Holmes' once you have solve the mystery. I wouldn't expect it to take very many playthorughs to match Holmes scores.

If you like Sherlock Holmes , or some not too hard brain teasers, you will enjoy the game. It is only about 60-90 mins of total gameplay in most instances for each mystery. As for the price, I would definitely go the collection route as it's almost half price. I would probably also wait til it might be on sale as well.

A pretty good detective game, and can be challenging. Nice acting and storytelling. A side note, this is a re-release from 1991, and there are 2 other games in this series here on Steam if you want to check them out.

A very fascinating game with an interesting user interface. Compared to the more "gamey" Sherlock Holmes games, this one is more about you as the player thinking about the facts, instead of relying on the game telling you what to do and what it means.

The gameplay consists of you poring through newspapers, and lists of people and locations, the main idea being that YOU have utter freedom on how to proceed, which place to go, whom to interrogate, with the game providing no "path" for you to follow, except for the clues that you've gathered so far. Really good concept.

There are some problems with it, though, mainly that the only "penalty" for going to an "empty" place(only some are connected to the case and thus have full motion video that gives you more clues) is that you gain a number of "time points" that measure how effectively you've solved the case. These have no bearing on the game as such. Thus, you'll have to impose restrictions to yourself so as to only go to logical places you've deduced, instead of just going through everything one at a time in order for it to make more sense. Once you've solved the case, your results are compared to a "perfect sherlock" score as to see how well you did in comparison with the great detective. That's really the only reason to refrain from doing everything mindlessly, your own pride.

The other sort of problematic thing is that the game records clues fairly randomly. There's an in-game notebook that has some things written on it based on what you've seen on the FMVs when you visit places. The problem is that most of the critical information is still in the FMV itself, so you'll often have to rewatch the whole FMV(no rewinding) to remind yourself of a particular clue. This can be annoying since the FMVs can be a few minutes long, which means pointless waiting since there's no skipping the video to a particular timestamp, at least that I found. For example, visting the crimescene triggers an FMV where Holmes and Watson talk to a person before studying the crimescene, and thus I'm forced to watch the talking part every time I want to inspect the crimescene, which can be bothersome. Skipping around the video would be hugely useful and make everything far less tedious, without really compromising anything of the enjoyability of the game.

There are some problems that arise from the game seemingly being a port from an iPad or such, I think? There are no scrollbars for example, so you'll have to use the mousewheel to scroll through the notebook, which can be tedious.

Overall the case is quite logical, but quite short as well. Took me 2 hours to solve, I think, based on my playing time. There's one big problem in the case for me, which I can't really say due to spoilers, but the fact that it isn't addressed annoys me greatly, since there wasn't an explanation on why it's ignored, and in my opinion it impacts the deductions on the case quite a lot.

There's also a few strange typos, or things being referred with another name in one place than the next, despite it clearly being the same thing in question, which lead to some confusion on my part.

The overacted FMV clips add a certain charm to it, which may be very annoying to some people, since it's verily not-serious, with overblown sound effects when new clues are told to Sherlock or Watson, and so on.

In the end, I believe it was easily worth the money I paid, since even though I might've been only a few hours long, the price is equally low, so it balances out. I'd love to see more games in this style, since it's utterly fascinating. That the game allows me to solve the case by going through my own deductive path, without giving any hints or treating me like a dimwit is very refreshing and frankly works surprisingly well on the computer, despite not using anything even remotely close to modern graphics or gameplay. The game as it is, could've easily been made in the early 90s(maybe it was, I know little of the history of the game, whether it's actually new, old, or whatever), but that doesn't mean that it's bad, just that the design of the game is very, very different from what you'd expect from a modern game, especially if you compare it to any of the other Sherlock style games.