![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, you can easily bypass “playing” the game by simply going through every clue. The sleuth detective aspects of the game remind me of Voyeur for the CD-i, but with much less adult content. I was pretty gung-ho about playing this game, then I started and I was a little confused, but then I got excited as I started to uncover some clues. I can’t say they are spectacular, but they far exceed my original expectations. The location scout, set designer, and casting agent did fairly decent jobs in this game. Making games like Sherlock Holmes is more like making a movie. ![]() In order to turn your case into the judge, you will need to have sufficient clues and evidence for him to take this to trial. These icons provide you with a directory, a set of notes, a daily newspaper, a video clip with some clues, and a telegraph system (which is prompted when you click a name from the directory or your notes), a notebook of clues, and a judge’s gavel. There is no description as to what these icons are unless you go back to the main menu and go through the “introductory” screen. We are presented with a map and some icons on the left and right side. You’ll need to listen carefully.įollowing the video, we can now put our detective skills to work. The introductory videos provide a few clues about the case, but it is tough to really decipher their riddles sometimes. A lot of these FMV games featured some halfway decent acting from mostly unknown actors (other than the famous Double Switch featuring Cory Haim and the inimitable R. Each case begins with a grainy FMV video featuring Holmes and Watson introducing the story to us in a rather decent setting with attire appropriate for the time period and decent acting. But let’s not let that detract from the overall experience of the game. Navigating the menus and getting the pointer (cursor) to function properly proved to be a little more challenging than I first anticipated. A lot less is lost by a failed DVD-game than an entire failed system. You’d think they would have learned from the mistakes of the 3DO and CD-i when they attempted to be all-in-one home entertainment systems. Unfortunately, “DVD Games” would never quite pick up in popularity. This sort of “cursor” option would prove ingenious as ICOM Simulations would later port this game to DVD in 1999 and players could easily use the directional buttons on the remote to control the game. ![]() Instead of moving from option to option, the d-pad functions as a sort of mouse and you move a cursor (appropriately animated as a hand holding an old wooden pipe). Laid out like the contents table in a book, you can choose to read the following chapters: Instructions, Holmes’ Introduction, The Mummy’s Curse, The Mystified Murderess, The Tin Soldier, Load Game, or Save Game. Our sleuthy novel begins with the table of contents where you, the player, are given a multitude of options. are you? Then maybe it is worth giving Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective a go-round and determine for yourself if you have the skills and raw reasoning capabilities to help Holmes and Watson solve some of London’s stickiest cases… Let’s say, by chance, that you’re into adventure… mystery… and forensics……. If you’re not into FMV games (and who really is?), then you’ll most certainly want to kill yourself right this second. With all of that being said, what on earth has ICOM Simulations gotten us involved in here? At first glance Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective sounds like a very strange and interesting game. Often referred to as the master of disguise, Sherlock Holmes was cunning and undetectable in his outfitted camouflage. Doyle would write only three more novels about Holmes, but 55+ short stories were created that revolved entirely on Holmes and his innate logical reasoning which consisted of forensic science, process of elimination, logic, and more. But anyway… (Cue the harmonica)… Holmes made his novel debut in 1887 in A Study in Scarlet. ![]() Watson are British and all of the stories take place in London. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which always struck me as odd considering Holmes and his partner Dr. Well, it doesn’t matter anyway because he is popular in American culture too! So, yeah! Sherlock Holmes… Who is this man? Well, if you don’t know, then you’re not American! Wait, what? Sherlock isn’t American? Oh. *Note, this is Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Volume I.
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