Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess
Zojoi · 2015 · Adventure, FMV, Detective, Singleplayer
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 40
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About Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess
An unexpected guest interrupted my morning routine, speaking in impassioned tones about an intriguing murder. An unassuming woman has been charged with the death of a scoundrel, a fortune-squandering bounder. True, she was found over the body, pistol in hand but there are other avenues in this case that even the Yard has refused to set foot upon – especially when they wind into darker places of London’s society. I have the feeling that there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Zojoi teamed up with famed board game company Sleuth Times to reproduce the award-winning Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective video mysteries for Windows and Mac. This original titles was considered the pioneer products for emerging optical technologies and took advantage of the medium with full-motion video (FMV), intriguing storylines and fun game play. The restored retro game feature recaptured video, high-resolution graphics and strong storytelling and design.
Direct the famous Baker Street detectives through the fog-filled streets of London, and solve mysteries in a faithful adaptation of the board game that features:
Zojoi teamed up with famed board game company Sleuth Times to reproduce the award-winning Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective video mysteries for Windows and Mac. This original titles was considered the pioneer products for emerging optical technologies and took advantage of the medium with full-motion video (FMV), intriguing storylines and fun game play. The restored retro game feature recaptured video, high-resolution graphics and strong storytelling and design.
Direct the famous Baker Street detectives through the fog-filled streets of London, and solve mysteries in a faithful adaptation of the board game that features:
- 30 minutes or more of original video footage
- Sherlock Holmes, his case companion, Dr. Watson, and over 20 additional characters (both trustworthy and unscrupulous!)
- Full English subtitle support
- Search the London Times for clues, peruse Holmes’ personal files, scour through the London Directory and receive hints from Watson himself
- Present your findings to the Queen’s magistrate – and learn how you did against the master detective
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the classic Sherlock Holmes detective gameplay and note that the remastered video quality is a substantial improvement over the original releases, though some wish more cases had been upgraded. However, common complaints center on the heavy reliance on watching video clips and taking notes rather than interactive investigation, unclear mechanics about when to personally investigate versus send others, inability to pause or rewind videos, and frustration that the game requires finding all evidence before proceeding rather than allowing failure states where the criminal escape
to me this game was mostly a bunch of clips I had to sit through and take notes on, which is not my preferred style of detective games.1 found this helpful
It's a deceptively simple Sherlock Holmes Visual Novel (FMV Style Game) with interactions where you send Scotland Yard and/or the Irregular Ones to go and find you information, then you present your case to the Judge but if you don't have ALL of the information the Case doesn't go ahead, and whilst that's a handy barometer to showcase whether or not you're on the right track it would be better if the game had a "bad end" where if you didn't find all the info the villain got away but I appreciate that wouldn't be in-keeping with The Master Detective
This is my first time playing a Sherlock Holmes CD mystery and, overall, I didn't like it. First, I'll note that it was broken for me as I could not access a key file entry. Every other file entry worked except for that one for some reason. Also, specific to this one, it's not too hard to figure out the general pattern of what was going on but one of the key details is ridiculous and there aren't really any hints pointing towards it. That said, I'm not sure I would enjoy other games in this series, either. The mechanics are pretty good (although when to investigate yourself vs sending the irregulars isn't very well delineated) but, for example, in one video you find a bank statement and I immediately realized it was very important and wanted to view it further but you can't pause or rewind, it's only on screen very briefly, and it doesn't go into your inventory so I replayed THE ENTIRE video three times but kept missing the screenshot and just gave up. I have no idea how people dealt with that clue back in the day and I'm worried the series contains similar clues hidden in the videos.
I played a bunch of these in the 90s- I enjoyed them enough. When I booted up Zojoi's remasters- I thought they hadn't done much to update them... sure, they ran on my modern PC, but what did they really change? They looked just like my memory of them. But then I made the mistake of actually comparing them to the CDs I still had! Great Scott! There is no comparison between the original video quality and the Zojoi version! These are really something. My memory was far to kind to the original release. Now my only sadness is that Zojoi has only upgraded 4 of the 9 original cases. Here's hoping another case drops soon!
The game mechanics and overall execution could really use some work
great game - I loved all of these.
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