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1. Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear full#
2. Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear series#
3. Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear tv#

Upon returning to Baker Street, Sherlock is astonished to find the newspapers are pointing the finger squarely at him as the culprit for the switcheroo. Holmes and Watson have just solved the case of the Marquess of Conyngham’s missing Samoan necklace, only to find the trinket to be a cheap fake. Unusually, the story kicks off at the end of an investigation. The last three games have relied on a ‘crossover’ hook (Cthulhu mythos, Arsène Lupin and Jack the Ripper) but in this instalment it’s all about Sherlock, and from the title alone you’ll know he has a lot to answer for.

The “darkness” of the game’s tag line (“His darkest adventure yet”) comes from the psychology at play as Watson struggles to understand the motives behind his long-time friend's disturbing behaviour. There are still some grisly crime scenes and uncomfortable subject matter to be found here, rendered in vivid detail, but on the whole this is a far brighter affair. Eschewing the darkness and violence that has been a prominent feature in recent titles, this is instead a well-lit game with few corpses. Testament undoubtedly involves the series’ most intriguing plot yet, and a lot of work has gone into making it fit together. There’s a maturity to the gorgeous presentation, puzzle design and interface accessibility that can only have come by learning from their previous games. I’m sure everyone has their favourite (personally I loved The Awakened) but Testament feels like the game Frogwares have been building to for a long time.

Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear full#

This latest investigation is full of references to not only Conan Doyle's Holmsian universe but also to the developer's established canon of games, largely based on their own invented stories.

Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear series#

In The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, the seventh game in the series and the first to be designed for cross-platform release, Frogwares delivers their best adventure so far, and arguably the greatest Sherlock Holmes game ever made. It's hard to believe they've been at this nearly a decade, but the experience is clearly paying off. Enter Frogwares, long the purveyors of Sherlock Holmes adventure games, to once again give us a slice of good old fashioned British sleuthing. But few current adaptations want to take Holmes back to his Victorian detective roots they either want to modernize him or, dare I say it, make an action hero out of him.

Review sherlock holmes and the adventure of the elusive ear tv#

movies to the TV shows Sherlock and Elementary. It’s fair to say old Sherlock Holmes is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance in popularity lately, from the Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr.