Sherlock Holmes The Awakened: Review and Thoughts

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1. Creating a detective game infused with Lovecraftian horror is a good idea.

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2. Frogwares, a game developer, remade their 2007 game 'Sherlock Holmes The Awakened' with the help of €250,000 via Kickstarter.

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3. The remake is a third-person detective game with no combat or open-world.

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4. The game involves investigating the disappearance of a person, leading to a bizarre cult's involvement.

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5. The remake is faithful to the original, with most investigations linking to the primary missing-persons case.

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5. The remake is faithful to the original, with most investigations linking to the primary missing-persons case.

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6. The game lacks regular crime-solving satisfaction.

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7. The clue-searching process is tedious, and some objects need to be rotated.

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8. The mind palace, a 2D mind-map, is unintuitive and clunky to use.

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