vervaine reviews Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper (PC)

Pro's:
+ length (took around 20 hours to complete).
+ good plot - I found myself playing in order to see what happens next when I should be doing something else... The ending was also good, and matching the atmosphere of the game.
+ atmosphere - dark, dreary London, lots of people on the streets. Rather slow pace, but I enjoyed it. The game focuses more on examining things and observing closely than on action.
+ logical puzzles. No need to try to figure out what impossible things the creators cooked up, more relying on common sense.

Con's:
- "insert original CD" blah blah. 1 in 5 attempts to run the game ended up in this. Quite annoying, though not unplayable. The game also checks the CD when saving / loading, which hangs it up for several seconds.
- some parts were CPU-heavy for some reason.
- it was a bit too easy. Maybe it's because everything was logical, but I got stuck only once.
- translation (Polish). Some of deduction board stuff didn't quite add up. Dialogues were left in English, so I could see that subtitles didn't match in places. At least one puzzle didn't make sense thanks to translation mistakes.

There's quite a lot of reading in the game, but I didn't mind. Only a couple of papers bored me... They just weren't concise enough.