Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
| Sherlock Holmes: The Devils's Daughter | |||
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| Studio | Frogwares | ||
| Publisher | Bigben Interactive | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
June 10, 2016 | ||
| platform | Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One | ||
| Game engine | Unreal Engine 3 | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Mouse , keyboard , gamepad | ||
| medium | Disk , download | ||
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter (dt about. The Devil's Daughter ) is an Adventure - Computer game of the Ukrainian developer Frogwares and the eighth part of their Sherlock Holmes series . It was released on June 10, 2016 for PC , Xbox One and PlayStation 4 .
The game is based on the Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle , but tells fictitious stories. Unlike its predecessor Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, there is a German dubbed version.
Gameplay
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is an adventure game in which the player plays the role of Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson takes over from the novel series of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The game consists of a series of individual cases that are integrated into a framework plot. The player must investigate crime scenes and interview and investigate people to find clues. As with the predecessor, these clues can be linked with the "deduction tool" to make conclusions, right up to the identification of the perpetrator. The moral decisions from the previous game also return.
The player can be Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson in the first-person or third-person perspective control through the game world. In addition to the investigative aspect of the gameplay, there are numerous quick-time events designed to add more action to the game.
action
In the course of the plot, Sherlock Holmes has to solve five cases. These are packaged in a framework story that is about the young girl Kaitlin, whom Sherlock Holmes finds and adopts at Professor Moriarty at the end of The Testament of Sherlock Holmes . She befriends the new neighbor Alice De'Bouvier, who is a Satanist and has a diabolical plan with Kaitlin before.
Case 1: hunting grounds
New neighbor Alice De'Bouvier brings Sherlock Holmes a crying boy named Tom, who lives in London's slum Whitechapel . Tom misses his father, who didn't come home from work three weeks ago, and asks the detective to help him find it.
Case 2: study in green
Sherlock Holmes takes part in the bowls tournament of a London archeology association. Holmes wins the tournament and is due to appear for the awards ceremony the next day. There he finds the murdered archaeologist Zacharias Greystoke. He was pierced with the spear of a Mayan statue.
Sir Yellingham, chairman of the association, believes the murder was linked to a Mayan curse. Allegedly, he is said to have seen the statue come to life, throw the spear, and then run away. The rationalist Holmes is of course skeptical and wants to find the real culprit.
Case 3: appearance or reality
Holmes receives a visit from the American actor Orson Wilde (probably a reference to Orson Welles ), who moves in with Holmes for a few days to study his role in a film. During the night, a stranger throws a bomb through the window of Holmes' apartment at 221b Baker Street . Holmes manages to defuse the bomb. Now Holmes wants to find out who wanted to kill him.
Case 4: chain reaction
Holmes and Watson are on their way with the carriage when it has to stop near the City of London due to a massive traffic accident . Holmes tries to trace back how the accident happened. In doing so, he reveals that there is a lot more to it than that.
Case 5: feverish dreams
Alice De'Bouvier has kidnapped Holmes' daughter Kate. The clues lead him to the cemetery, where Alice De'Bouvier tries to murder Kaitlin in a ritual .
Development and publication
After Frogwares had already confirmed the development of a new part of the Sherlock Holmes series in early 2015, the collaboration with the publisher Bigben Interactive was announced in May 2015 . At the end of October 2015, in the run-up to Paris Games Week, a major video game fair that takes place annually in Paris, Bigben Interactive announced the title "Sherlock Holmes: The Devils Daughter".
After Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter was supposed to be released on May 27, 2016, the game was released on June 10, 2016 for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One after a postponement
reception
| German-speaking area | ||
|---|---|---|
| publication | Rating | platform |
| GameStar | 69% | Pc |
| 4players | 78% | PS4 |
| PC Games | 7/10 | Pc |
| International space | ||
| IGN | 5/10 | PS4 |
| GameSpot | 6/10 | Pc |
| Gaming Age | C + ( ~ 78% ) | Xbox |
| Meta-ratings | ||
| GameRankings | 62.33% | Pc |
| Metacritic | 65% | Pc |
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter received mostly mixed, sometimes even negative reviews from critics. The PC version of the game scored 65 out of 100 points on the aggregation website Metacritic . The predecessor Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments still achieved the best Metascore of the series with 77 out of 100 points.
Above all, the development of the game in a more action-heavy direction and the change in the characters of the two main characters towards more youthful and careless characters than in the predecessors were criticized. Andreas Bertits from PC Games wrote:
“He [Sherlock Holmes] appears hot-headed and can sometimes be played against the wall by other people. This doesn't do justice to his character from the books and one often wonders what else this person has to do with the famous private detective. The "makeover" also continues in the game. Again and again mini-games have to be completed, which represent the action in the adventure. [...] The mini-games appear quite often and get on my nerves over time. "
Another point of criticism of the game is the sometimes somewhat clumsy controls, which are particularly annoying in the action passages. The game library criticized:
"[...] the failure [is] in some situations really not because of us players, but simply because of the jerky controls: Sherlock constantly gets stuck on obstacles, does not hit exactly the point that you have aimed at, or bugs like that long until you are forced to reload. "
The GameStar wrote "The Devil's Daughter is not a bad game across the board, but just an extremely disappointing successor." Above all, she criticized the fact that the many action scenes of the actual genre, an adventure game with puzzles and riddles, too much would remove. This would orientate oneself more towards the mass market. GameStar, on the other hand, praised the graphics quality in particular, even if it caused the frame rate to drop in some places . So wrote Dimitry Halley from GameStar :
“We even really like some aspects - the look, for example. Crimes and Punishments was a pretty game, but The Devil's Daughter goes a step further and scores with sharper textures, great character models and wonderfully detailed locations. This has its price, however: the frame rate drops regularly in busy streets, especially on consoles, and the PC version also noticeably struggles with screen tearing. However, all of this is still within limits. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Dammes: Sherlock Holmes 8: Official presentation at the Paris Games Week , In: PCGames.de ; from October 18, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2020.
- ↑ Tobisas Simon: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter New series offshoot officially announced , In: Gameswelt.de ; from October 20, 2015, accessed on May 21, 2020.
- ↑ Torsten Roth: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter - Release postponed + new trailer , In: Gameswelt.de ; dated April 14, 2016, accessed May 21, 2020.
- ↑ a b Dimitry Halley: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter in the test - Full throttle in the wrong direction , In: Gamestar .de ; dated June 8, 2016, accessed May 28, 2020.
- ↑ Jens Bischoff: Test: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter (Adventure) , In: 4Players .de ; dated June 27, 2016, accessed May 28, 2020.
- ↑ a b Andreas Bertits and Felix Schütz: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter in the Test: A Rejuvenation Cure with Questionable Design Decisions , In: PCGames .de ; dated June 12, 2016, accessed May 28, 2020.
- ^ John Robertson: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter Review , In: ign .com ; dated June 17, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2020.
- ^ Richard Wakeling: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter Review , In: GameSpot .com ; dated May 27, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2020.
- ↑ Matthew Pollesel: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter review for Xbox One, PS4, PC , In: Gaming-Age.com ; dated February 21, 2017, accessed on May 28, 2020.
- ↑ Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter , In: GameRankings .com ; accessed on June 28, 2019 (English).
- ↑ a b Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter PC , In: Metacritic .com ; accessed on May 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments PC , In: Metacritic .com ; accessed on May 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter in the test , In: Gameothek.com ; dated June 14, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2020.