Having the open world of Cordona to begin with was an excellent creative choice, and even if Frogwares stole a lot of gameplay elements from their other game – “The Sinking City” – I still thought it translated very well to the Sherlock style. The biggest positive I took away from Chapter One was that Frogwares have done an excellent job updating the gameplay elements from the previous Sherlock games and transformed them into something more akin to modern open world gaming. ( If that score seems a little low compared to all the praise I’ve been singing of the game thus far, I’ll expand upon my reasoning in the later sections) Gameplay Without going into spoilers, I found it to be incredibly unsatisfying, and pretty much ruined any fun I’d had with the story up until that point. I’ll get into it in more detail in my “Not-So-Good” section, but I really didn’t like how they concluded that overarching plotline. Unfortunately, I think they fumbled the main story at the final hurdle. I also quite liked the overarching story surrounding the circumstances of the death of Sherlock’s Mother – was it suicide? Murder? Medical neglect? There is no clear answer from the get-go, and it’ll take various investigations and deductions before you even remotely start to piece together what really happened. That’s the hook out of the way, so what did I think of the story as a whole? First of all, I really like the depth of the writing in these cases – every single main quest and side case had an intriguing setup that I was eager to explore, and the various murders and other crimes you have to solve are each treated with the same respect and complexity. Jon is still there with you … not quite the John Watson that you’d recognise, but a figment of Sherlock’s imagination that aids him when solving cases. He has returned to his childhood home as a young man – years before becoming the Great Detective we’re used to – in order to uncover the mystery of his mother’s death, so seeing a younger Holmes take the reigns was a welcome creative choice. The story takes place on Cordona, an island that is central to Sherlock’s family history.
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