Buy Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

I really want to enjoy this game but it is hard. The amount of ridicilous mini-games is mind-boggling, luckily most of them are skippable.

There are a few precious moments so far that do feel like Sherlock Holmes, they are unfortunately overshadowed by throwing rocks on a window-minigame, balancing over branches-minigames, barfighting-minigames etc etc.

After 6.5 hours of gaming I can't recommend this.

Edit: Soon after writing this review I finished the game and I was even more disappointed. So short and so very few real cases.

Worst Sherlock game I've played.

Game contains too many mini games that are not so related to solving the crime, such as balancing across a rope, or solving many mini puzzles in an ancient moumenet. Enjoyed the previous game crimes and punishements much more than this one. Dislike how the developer suddenly teleports Sherlock Holmes to another place in another dimension in the game. Not recommended. Need more cases than mini games.

The game could have been better. I was hoping to use my own deductive skills in the game, but there's more guiding than freedom to do so. Don't get me wrong; you can walk around town or go to different places, but the game doesn't allow you to move ahead in the story unless you've looked at every single thing it wants you to look at (even though you already figured things out).
Not only that, the things that are happening in the game feel unatural. I dont want to feel like characters are doing things just for storytelling conveniece. For example, in the part where you ease drop on people, they just conveniently be talking about the person your looking for, and you just be coincedentaly be listening at the right time, and they are just so happening to be talking about that person for no absolute reason at all.
Although there are things in the game that could be improved, the stories weren't all that bad. I don't want to give out any spoilers, so if your mostly looking for a game with a story, then I guess you can try out this one, as long as you can ignore certain unrealistic events in the game.

I wish people would stop tagging action games as adventure just because there is a hint of a story to go along with all the running, hiding and shooting. This is not an adventure game like any of the previous Sherlock Holmes games from Frogwares. There are no skips on the running around getting shot scenes, but there are skips for the dexterous who cannot solve simple puzzles and make mind numbingly easy deductions. So when the adventure aspect is made ridiculously simple and the action is the main focus then this is not an adventure game by any stretch of the imagination. I am so done with this series. Action gamers will probably like it, but I am saying not recommended becasue the series' base of customers was always adventure gamers and they will most likely be disappointed.

I don't know if it's because I played every SH PC game out there. I don't know if it is because I LOOOOVE me detective games and recently played really good ones with awesome stories. I don't know if it's because I expected another triumph from Frogwares. But this game is absolutely boring. It breaks the succeeding formula of the SH by trying to mix in elements from successful action games using quick time events. Plus it s extremely short and fails to make you care for succeeding in solving the cases (which were easy. Too easy).

At one point you are following a guy like in Assassins Creed. Another moment you sneak by guard like in Metal Gear Solid. Tons of quick time events. Few cases with boring stories, with sudden end and sudden start. Characters with no facial expressions, requires no real slueth skills and even the underline story of your so called daughter is appealing as watching a hair grow.

This is a disappointment and the first failure on the series by Frogware. I hope they won't keep this up and will return to doing pure detective SH games like they did up until now. Yes. They won't address a larger audience but there are enough action games and open world games that are doing that and trying to hybrid that with a detective game is a disaster.
We don't get much of the detective games like SH and LA Noir and I do belive that the genre should see more like SH Testament and even The case of the Silver Earring and less of this failure.


To sum up, don't buy this. It's not worth 50$.

The main problem with this game is rhythm. Developers do not understand when a minigame can be appropriate and when it just feels like filler. When you're about to end a mystery and want to see who the murderer was and how it all happenned... Having to deal with 3 consecutive (and pretty bad) puzzles is nonsense when all of the investigation has already been done. The game overall feels rushed, it's not a balanced experience. Go get Crimes and Punishments instead...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/241260/

Honestly, i dont know what all the fuss is about. This game, in my opinion, more than lived up to the legacy of Crimes and Punishments. Yes, there was many mini games, but i personally found these fun and inventive. In addition to the normal Crimes and Punishements gameplay (solving cases and deciding who did it based on the evidence) there was the intrudction of more action. Which i found quite refreshing.


All in all i think this was a great game, and deserves a few DLC's

First of all i did not played any of the previous SH installments - the game is similar to Murdered: Soul Suspect ( so if you liked that , you'll like this one to ) - i only resolved the first case and i found it engrossing with plenty of clues to find and put in order and some on rail action sequences ( solid gameplay mechanics in my opinion ) - i didn't found the mini games that the reviewers spoke tiresome or bothering !

- what i loved the most is the city atmosphere ( feels alive ) and attention to detail - i just walked aimlessly exploring the streets and listening to the sounds ( outside of the mission parameters ) - highly recommended 10/10 !

Great game. I absolutely love the story and voice work with this series. I highly recommend each of the Sherlock games, well worth the money.