I am a particular fan of the title of this game, because it sounds like Holmes himself is the daughter in question. Like it was his nickname when he played rugby at school or something. Despite that, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is a thoroughly enjoyable entry in Frogwares' saga of third-person detect 'em ups, notable for having good detecting elements, and also never having a version of Sherlock I wouldn't go to bed with. Look at 'em both up there, Holmes in his shirtsleeves and Watson with his fashion facial hair. What good lads.
]]>Esteemed friends. I have gathered you here today to speak about a most terrible crime, perpetrated in this very room. Late last night, the RPS podcast, affectionately known to some of you as the Electronic Wireless Show, was found dead beside the divan. No, do not get up Mrs Leathershaw. The cushions have been washed, I assure you. But less clean than those soft pillows is the conscience of one person in this room. That's right, listeners. The killer is among you. We have but one clue. The last recorded message of the Electronic Wireless Show, simply labelled: "Episode 62 - Of murders and mysteries."
]]>Lovecraft seems to be the theme du jour at the moment. 2018 trends: pair tailored suits and details inspired by fetish wear with cosmic horror and old school '20s racism. I saw probably the two most prominent games inspired by Lovecraft at Gamescom, Frogwares' The Sinking City and Cyanide's Call of Cthulhu (though there were others, including a turn based, tactical affair called Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones). I was going to do separate posts about them, but then I realised I would just be reusing the same jokes about Lovecraft. So instead I'm going to smash them together, and make them fight in a playground in my own head.
]]>Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes games have always been very weird. From the early awful fan-fiction-like conflations of Doyle's work with his contemporaries, complete with evil staring Watson, to the more recent third-person festivals of terribleness, they've not managed to be good, but they've certainly managed to be strange. And yup, that's not changing here. The Devil's Daughter [official site] is like a fever dream, but a fever dream that's been really badly made. Here's my impressions of the first half, because good grief.
]]>Hello, this is the time of day where I glare at the screen over the top of my coffee mug and try to work out which bits of a gameplay trailer are gameplay and which bits are cinematics or flourishes which you maybe see while playing the game.
Unrelatedly, here is a gameplay-amongst-cutscenes trailer for Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter [official site]!
]]>Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter [official site] has a reveal trailer and it's really going for the creepy gothic vibe what with a horrible doll and a creepy child.
I'm far less au fait with Sherlock than I am with Poirot and have a tendency to conflate real Sherlock stories with stories from Dr Terrible's House of Horrible. Specifically the episode about opium and giant crabs. But having watched this trailer I am hoping that at some point Frogwares will also have Sherlock fight a crab:
]]>Sherlock Holmes has already survived an encounter with Cthulhu, I can't imagine that The Devil's Daughter [official site] will cause the great detective too much bother. That said, maybe she has something to prove. She'll certainly have to pull more pranks than her old da to be taken seriously, and even then folks will say she hasn't earned her cape. (Yes, I did read this about Chris Eubank Jr. the other day.) "Are... are you Satan?" quivering mortals ask. "Well, I'm a Satan" she sighs.
Point is, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter will arrive on May 27th, Frogwares have announced. I mean, I assume it's about the literal daughter of the literal Devil.
]]>Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, does whatever a Sherlock can. Everyone's favourite logic-slinger, the mysterious costumed figure known as Sherley to his fans, will return in a new adventure next year. It's called The Devil's Daughter [official site] and will pit our friendly neighbourhood mystery-man against the usual cowardly superstitious criminals who challenge his deductive wit, but there'll also be "family stories, irresistible emotions and an occult revenge". Dang. Any fool knows that Sherley's superpowers are ineffective against magic.
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