Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles Reviews

This was really hard to decide whether to recommend or not. I came into this off the back of Crime & Punishment and boy howdy that was a shock to the system. In general the puzzles are ok, with the one difficult one having a couple different solutions in Steam Guides. I liked the fact that the map makes it clear when there's something left in the room for you to do so you're not endlessly going from room to room clicking everything aimlessly. It's on me that I didn't realise it was a Hidden Objects game but I found these portions annoying. Some items particularly in the middle sections of the game are rather obtuse to find, and in general I found that they slowed the pace down to a crawl, making it hard to build up any tension whatsoever. There is also something quite hard to wrap your head around with Sherlock Holmes and the fantastical elements of it. What drove me *absolutely mad* was the music. The soundtrack is extremely limited so I got sick of it really early on, and it completely disregards whatever it is you are doing at the time so you'll just have high tension music when you're trying to find the last frog or whatever from the HO that will unlock piece 2/3 of a puzzle, so it just made the whole tone a bit flat.

Nice hidden object game, puzzles could be harder though, but overall very well made.

Quite a cool game both in terms of plot and in terms of solving puzzles. I am glad that this game has achievements, although after completing the game on the maximum difficulty, the achievement for easy difficulty, alas, for some reason was not given :( My rating: ✭✭✭✰✰