Really?

I found this game much better than Awakened in almost every aspect.
I liked the story more, puzzles and graphics were glitchy for me in Awakened while they were fine in Jack the Ripper and those various deductions and re-constructions and similar stuff made RIpper better for me.


Coincidentaly I came here to recommend other Sherlock Holmes game. The last one in particular. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishements.
I am not much of adventure player but I found this one great and think it is one of the best ones I ever played. Maybe even the best one detective games.
It is everything that L.A. Noire should be.

The game is split into 6 cases each with its own story and what makes it great is that each case can be failed. It makes it really tense when you are trying to put all clues together and figure out who is the real murderer. The fact that you can fail and send innocent person to be possibly executed makes it great. One can also after choosing the murderer choose whether to let the person go give them to police. In a lot of cases the morale side of the case is quite interesting and it makes sense to let person go. It's not like you are letting go serial murderer who just loves killing.

Cases are in most parts really logical and it is always possible to figure out the correct solution. There are few parts when one has to choose thing in deductions that he doesn't really agree with to get the rest of things correct but it is never something outrageous and completely unplausible.
The game is somewhat on the easier side of things and I personally would appreciate it even harder but it can be also attributed to the game being quite logical. The game also gets easier as it progresses. Partially it is because player already understand how the game thinks and works but last 2 cases are simply just easier. I was a bit surprised that the second to last was solved by 90% of players correctly because I dodn't think it was that obvious and the last one was so easy that I was surprised it was solved by "only" 96% of people.
The game shows the percentage of correct solutions and I think no case had less than 50% percent succes and at least 4 had over 65 or 70 I think.

I still am not sure if I am happy that we did so good or if I wanted it to be harder but as I type this I feel it is indeed good thing because it shows the game makes sense and can be solved with good thinking. Only in the last case you barely have to think to find the true solution.

Also each case is a bit different and features something new.
Besides of normal solving of murders and interrogations the game also features puzzles of various kind. We mostly enjoyed them and got them all but good thing is that if someone doesn't each of them can be easily skipped. Right at the beginning of puzzle or when is not able to figure it out for some time.
There are also some QTE but usually short ones. Few of them can be failed and they change the following story a bit but never failing prevents from succeeding the case I think.

The game also looks very good. Much better than previous games from the series. It also ran very well with minimum of hiccups.

Overall I find the game great with only tiny flaws and with no real reason to not reccomend it.


I am not posting here anymore much but I figured I should because the game deserves it and I saw only 1 other person from my friend list on Steam has it so I figured it needs recognition.