xa_chan: The Testament of Sherlock Holmes Nice puzzle/enigmas game. I'm not very fond of that kind of games, but Sherlock Holmes is a special character, so I thought I could give it a try. Bought it in a bundle, God knows when... ^_^
We completed this game on Wednesday. It is certainly not bad game and one of the better from this series, maybe even the best one. It relies on special puzzles much more than previous ones but most of them were interesting. We managed all but one without walkthrough (and we accidentaly skipped the first one but we would manage it) They were usually fun and it was satisfying to solve them and it is also possible to skip them in case one does get stuck.
The story was good, always if you follow Sherlock universe you will notice most of it being quite familiar. The child part I found quite redundant, though, and the girl in the story felt forced in there and not really explained. I could do without those parts and I don't think they added much to the story.
Graphics-wise it is once again improvement and works better in almost every aspect from previous games. It looks nice, you can choose from cameras and there were no glitches. I think it crashed once but you can save anytime and the game itself is quite generous with autosaves.
Overall
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is good adventure game and worth of checking out if you like the genre at least a bit.
7.5/10 I also did run through
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2: Retribution in last days. It was not my first time going through the game but it was first after very long time. I really like Dawn of War games but not being much of multiplayer person, I find Retribution the worst part of DoW 2. On the other game it let me stomp humies and others as Orc, so I am not complaining too much. It would be nicer if the missions weren't recycled across all races so much. This way I always lose interest in doing another race after you do one for some time.
This time I did Orcs (surprise) as I missed them somehow so far.
I enjoy this game and have very little complaints (the map recycling, much less interesting levelling of units, too small armies for WH40k, and some minor things) but I enjoy DoW2 and Chaos Rising quite a bit more.
I see I don't have it on any of previous lists so I am listing it even while I will maybe get back to it some time in the future.
8/10 Full list.