The rest of the main cast is pretty great too.
These guys play off of each other exceptionally well and make the dialogue-heavy parts of the game very easy to digest. But their dynamic wouldn’t work anywhere near as good if it weren’t for some stand out vocal performances from Alex Jordan and Wil Coban. From the outset, they’re either giving each other grief or making fun of someone else’s incompetence on the regular. Laying on banter in the first 5 minutes! You love to see it.Īnd yes, our two main protagonists are just as sassy as you’d imagine. And since players can actively flub up an investigation and still continue on by accusing the wrong suspect or by deciding upon the wrong outcome, it makes for some great replayability and discussion about who the fresh-faced Sherlock Holmes is as a character. Speaking of moral dilemmas, some of the choices Sherlock has to make definitely offer some food for thought. I won’t reveal too much more for spoiler’s sake, but overall, it is a fairly well-written narrative with all sorts of twists, turns and moral dilemmas that you can shake a stick at. It makes for some great replayability and discussion about who the fresh-faced Sherlock Holmes is as a character. And like any well-constructed story before it, the tangled murder mystery cases he solves throughout the game begin intersecting with Holmes’ repressed memories of his mother’s death. Throughout the course of Chapter One, our young detective and his assistant, Jon (who definitely isn’t Watson) are looking for closure on Sherlock’s mother’s death in their hometown of Cordona.
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