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The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes | 
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| From: Legacy Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1953
Format: Cd
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: SH
Model: SH
UPC: 734113007297
EAN: 0734113007297
ASIN: B0014SHE8I
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new factory sealed.
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| Features:
| • | 16 intriguing cases involving mysteries: from theft to espionage to ancient curses and, of course, murder! | | • | Explore over 40 different beautifully rendered locations in Victorian London. | | • | Clever storylines and spot-on dialog written in the classic Arthur Conan Doyle style and featuring well known regulars from the original stories. | | • | Solve dozens of puzzles and minigames in this hidden object adventure where you search for relevant clues, not random objects. | | • | Sherlock Holmes is first game officially licensed by the Conan Doyle Estate |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 It's probably just me November 19, 2008
Maybe it's my age [...] or bad eyes but I have a terrible time getting thru the levels in the allotted 25 minutes. The first level was the only one I did it in. I keep repeating the long sections and getting very frustrated. Finally just gave up.
 Lots of fun with replay value, though short each time through November 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first entered my review three days ago (below the line). I'd like to add to it, and I'm adding a positive note. I've found the replay value of the game much more fun than I did three days ago. That's because the position of stuff to find does change each time, and I am not bettering my score by much each time. The little puzzles within each turn stay the same each time, though. The puzzles at the end of each case also change positions, etc., so that sometimes I do worse on them than I did the prior time! In other words, the replay is still a lot of fun. Though it doesn't take that much time to get all the way through all 20 cases, there's enough change each try that replay is still fun.
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This game is fun, but I do regret paying $20 for it as it barely lasted two days for playing all the way through! All but one of the mini-games are very easy for an adult.
It is a good game for just relaxing, though, because search-and-find games don't need computation powers, etc. I rated it a FIVE for fun and a FOUR overall - that is, what I would call average overall. Another reviewer recommended another series with more levels, and I think I'll try that next.
That said, I do want to mention that you can challenge yourself in this game to better your time and overall score - so it is good for replay in that way. You get bonus points for this or that, and you get points deducted for this or that. Plus you are timed. So there are several ways to improve your overall scoring in the game. I retried one of the 20 games, as I had gotten stuck finding one item the first time. The second time through, a few of the items to be found changed, so I still had to "work"!
Casual game seeking player for mindless fun November 11, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan, and I love video games. I've never been the type to play casual games, and this game is definitely that: a casual game. Take 15-20, play a case, walk away. No investment at all.
Each case starts with a little introduction from the characters (voice acting is alright, not the best, could be worse), and from there you go to a location in London where a crime was committed. Each crime scene consists of the same 2 elements: a "compare this scene with the one from the day before," where you find things in one half of the screen that are different from the same scene on the other half. Imagine the back of a Highlights magazine, and there it is. The next element is a "find these items in this scene," where you have to find everything listed on the side of the screen in the room you are looking at. Hunt and peck, pixel hunt, find the four scraps of paper, or three lock-picking tools, etc. Within those activities, you might find a little puzzle, such as putting together some scraps of paper that were torn up to see what the note says, or putting broken gems back into a cats collar.
Once you finish these screens, you go back to Baker Street and play a game of sorting the suspects (sort of like the game Guess Who?, you sort the characters according to characteristics like beards, glasses, etc) and then play a small game of memory to reveal the culprit.
There is no problem solving, there is no note taking, there is no thought whatsoever. The crime is solved by your 5th grade puzzle solving techniques, and that is that. Once you finish, Holmes explains the crime, and that is that.
It's a fun little game to kill some time, but don't expect to wrack your brain over a case, but do expect some eye strain: trying to find those items can mean lots of time with your face inches from your computer screen squinting.
 NASCAR detective! October 22, 2008
What a fun game. Loaded easily, funcitioned smoothly, and after you play through to "solve" each mystery, you can go back over and over again for "best time and score."
Graphics are great, and the rooms are like those in Ravenhearst. The added wrinkle is solving the crime with clues you're given along the way.
The puzzles are challenging too, even if you've done them before, and the items move from place to place in each room so no matter how many times you replay the game you still have to hunt for stuff.
All in all it was tons of fun
FUN!!!! Open captions and a magnifying option too. September 25, 2008
As an adult, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's not such a hard game, such as one that you have to figure out and/or visit walkthroughs. A good bit of it is of a hidden object variety (looking for "clues"), and a particularly effective magnifying feature is easily turned off and on if you need extra zoom. All speech seems to be open captioned for easy use by the hearing impaired or those who need or want their computer silent, and, in fact, the Holmes/Watson verbage can be skipped altogether if the player wishes.
This one's a keeper in my book!!
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