The audio is similarly competent with the kind of effete, snooty British voice acting one would expect from the period. Environments are small, and thus detailed, giving a real sense of location to everything from parlours in British manors to train stations and turn of the century botanical preserves.
No, doesn’t look as good as Infamous: Second Son or Ryse, but it looks better than typical indie games, and the art team at Frogwares has done a fantastic job of recreating early 20th century London. On the presentation-side of things, Crimes & Punishments is a cross-generational title, but its use of the Unreal engine manages to keep the game graphically competitive with AAA games on the PS4 and Xbox One. Like a mystery novel, or television series, it’s better to experience each case one at a time, rather than simply try to solve all of them as quickly as possible. These are self-contained “episodes,” so there’s no need to marathon this game, and, in fact, it’s strongly discouraged. Without spoiling anything (this is a mystery game after all) Sherlock Holmes takes on six very different cases, one of which originally appeared as a short story in 1904. Here, players are confronted with a Sherlock Holmes that retains much of the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spirit he’s brilliant, arrogant, manipulative and far more interested in the difficulty of a case than its legal or moral implications. Sherlock is an icon of Western fiction, the ultimate detective against which all other detectives are measured. At this point anyone who hasn’t at least heard the name Sherlock Holmes is probably also living in the Amazon jungle and thinks a fun time is sleeping in a tree and not getting killed by a jaguar.
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