Again a very good Holmes

Once again, it did Frogware to bring a knotless Sherlock Holmes Adventure on the market and to build on the success and the quality of the previous parts. After the brilliant 6th part was clear that it would be very hard to beat the again. And that's the new part also in fact failed. Opposite the "attestation Ment of Sherlock's" find it then something from, if only because the story the predecessor was outstanding and "Crimes and Punishments" no story has, as it comes in the episode format, ie six individual, different cases that have nothing to each other to have do. Therefore, there is no story in the form of a red thread. This concept, however, was intended by the developers and known since the first announcement. The game has become what it should be. Therefore, one can a lack or nonexistent story the game does not count negatively, especially as the game away from them (almost) gets it right.

Built on the Unreal Engine 3 graphics are great and the amount of time. Except that the animation of facial expressions of the characters seem a bit expressionless and rigid, there is nothing else to complain about in terms of graphics. The individual cases are varied and the inference was revised again and comes back therefore in a refreshingly different way than its predecessors. Changes to the deduction system was previously in every part, but never did these changes negatively, but were just always refreshingly different. And never had one as a player more intense the feeling that the successful resolution of a case from one's own, correct reasoning and combining depends, as in "Crimes and Punishments", because even false solutions are possible, leading to the arrests of innocent people, what reputation the harms of Holmes.

Control proceeds as usual in order and the English soundtrack moves at a similar level. And at this point we come to the already really only negative point about this game: the lack of German language edition. Besides Part 1 (of basically had no voice output), is "Crimes & Punishments" the first part of the series, which has no German setting. Why this is so, is not comprehensible where but to date any previous part had German dubbing and also in Germany a particularly large adventure fan community is home to what even small independent studios all the way from South America prompted her to play a completely German to give localization. All the unnachvollziehbarer it, why there is no such case "Crimes & Punishments" is.

However, I can not understand why some reviewers only reason why the same verreißen here the whole game. Ok, the voice acting is English, but the reactions of some reviewers are so odious that you'd think it would be to Chinese language edition. I can sympathize with it, although that some players give the game therefore trigger, but that's why only 1 star? English is not an exotic language Hintertimbuktu but the universal language. Everyone has this year English as a school subject. Especially since it is in the English in the game also is screwed Oxford English, which the school English still comes closest. American English would have been much worse and would have anyway not fitted to Holmes. Personally, I would give this game no penalty because the one hand the rest of the game is really great, and with about 15 to 20 hours of play also offers a decent playing time and because it was personally not so tragic for me on the other hand, I am command of English. And at the places where I really did not understand time acoustically, the German subtitles helped further. In addition, you can all dialogs afterwards also again read in the journal in the German language. Where is the problem for those who really can not or only poor English?

Therefore, I give the game in the conclusion the highest rating of 5 stars, even if it "The Testament of Sherlock Holmes" can not quite live up to the grandiose predecessor. Strong buy recommendation from me!