Sherlock Holmes Chapter One Review

'When Sherlock Holmes is not poking holes in witnesses' testimonies, he is blasting holes in bad guys' chestimonies'. We have a winner.

[@dennisthemenace4288]

5:30

[@peepeepoopoo2710]

@@dennisthemenace4288 thank you

[@wes8723]

Why no mention of the fact that players who want to do only the detective stuff in the game have the option to turn off combat in the game's options?

[@kraenk12]

They probabyl didn't notice. IGN hasn't been doing decent journalism in ages.

[@HenryTownsmyth]

IGN has probably the best journalism in the past year or so. They have new talents on and they are doing better than many contemporaries like GameSpot.

[@internetgoat4831]

@@HenryTownsmyth Are you an IGN employee?

[@Kale13000]

@@internetgoat4831 no doubt

[@Dor_Z]

@@HenryTownsmyth Cap

[@1IbramGaunt]

Can't help thinking that all the money spent on that massive, beautiful but completely pointless open world could've been far better spent on just making Crimes & Punishments again but longer

[@Lapusso650]

Or on their chesticles

[@Shoobybuhdooby]

Huge let down it was open world

[@VitchAndVorty]

@TechMonstaaa Crimes and Punishments. OP mentioned it already.

[@md.tanjilurrahman5949]

​@TechMonstaaa Sherlock Holmes Crime & Punishment

[@coolsomeXD]

Nah Chapter One is amazing

[@jrwhite2139]

We ain’t gonna act like u didn’t just say“chestimonies”

[@DOOPEE451]

We meme that IGN game reviewers are bad, but this guy... this guy's alright

[@HenryTownsmyth]

Everyone is alright for a year now or so. They have had new people come on.

[@1eye1tear95]

Finally some improvements

[@Venomonomonom]

Why does he talk like *THIS...!*

[@nicolaspatto444]

My biggest problem occurred on the second case You don't clearly get who the murderer was, and it's up to you who goes to jail

[@tdan6828]

The older games were like that though

[@indefinableification]

gotta say there's a lot more easter eggs than i'd have expected, "jon has wares if you have coin" in the dress shop between knights rd and trinity way, pranking her is also fun. In fact without the convos with jon, this would have got a 4

[@kauansantos7293]

The first 10 seconds of this video helped me to decide if would buy this game or not. Thanks IGN!

[@Awesomesauce1_8_6_4]

Wait, which way did u go? Buy or not buy? Lmao

[@kauansantos7293]

@@Awesomesauce1_8_6_4 Guess hahaha

[@BigJonahJ]

I’m just lucky it’s available on PS5 for free on ps plus because it looks awful without anyone from IGN even speaking lol

[@staceygoins997]

@@BigJonahJ Where do you see that it is free on PS Plus? I’m on the 5 and it’s not free for me. :/

[@samfunston8547]

@@staceygoins997 Sam’s here

[@Queess1]

This review isn't far from truth, but seems like you guys have analyzed everything in the game except the case solving and narrative, that, well, are the main part of the experience. A 7 is a much more true vote

[@derpderpderpPSN]

Look, this is a budget game. The game and the season pass is the same as a regular game. If you enjoyed Crimes & Punishments and Devil’s Daughter, then you’ll like this.

[@nardo218]

you had me at "john is an imaginary friend." That's hilarious. They probably just deleted the character and realized that it would still work without him. That's so sherlock.

[@bashcrash9148]

I’m sorry but WHY does he have an imaginary friend?

[@toastnjam4595]

It's revealed at chap 1 ending. Not gonna tell ya since it's gonna be a spoiler.

[@fiqllency1758]

is like the Joker in Batman Arkham Knight.

[@jenniferbibi1972]

They explain it through out A mother's love, which is the main questline for the game. It makes a lot of sense when you learn his story

[@duglife2230]

Maybe he did it to cope with his mother's death or something. Idk, never played the game.

[@kloakovalimonada]

Authors of this and the latest TV series don't understand that AC Doyle's canon is NOT all Holmes all the time. Majority of time the books and stories do not feature him at all. The real heroes of the original works are the grotesque stories.

[@LiamPorterFilms]

Which Holmes books do not feature Holmes “at all”?

[@kloakovalimonada]

@@LiamPorterFilms badly phrased, I'm not a native speaker. Biggest parts of many if not most of the stories are the setups and backstories, not actually spent with Holmes. In contrast, modern Holmes adaptations feature Holmes all the time. It's all Holmes, all the time.

[@TheBrownLamb]

It’s worth noting the framerate on next gen consoles is dismal. Surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the review. There’s a lot of technical issues

[@israelpinon7355]

Did you play the previous one? That thing was barely playable. The sinking city. at least combat seems a bit better than that. By the way my ps5 is overheating while playing this. Wtf

[@johaniffsofiz]

LA Noire was ages ago and even other old games like Fallout 4 have better lip sync. This is a huge no no for games in 2020s.

[@SimonHill94]

Difference is, this is made by a small studio and not backed by a AAA budget.

[@wes8723]

Well yeah, but both games that you mentioned had far bigger budgets and people working on them

[@AK2WI]

@@SimonHill94 not worth 60 bucks IMO

[@giannis_tar]

@@AK2WI except it's 45

[@AK2WI]

@@giannis_tar the Xbox store has it at 60.

[@Windbadger]

Like Sherlock, I'd also ask "Are you talking?" if the lip-syncing was that bad.

[@remarkableputter6622]

Hitman games are the path Sherlock Holmes games need to follow..

[@ryantaylor3917]

Yeah but without the Assassinations.

[@blaster915]

Jesus the lip sync is AWFUL in the game!

[@dennisthemenace4288]

@@Elatenl 👎🏾, It is just way too off.

[@gamernautico]

@@Elatenl Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was a doble AA too and look that work.

[@titularhero]

Honestly you start not to notice it. What you do notice is that the sound in general isn't great, like people's voices sound like they are being spoken into a mic in your ear as opposed to coming from where their characters are in the cutscenes

[@diracflux]

As if any of us can sync our lips.

[@wes8723]

@@gamernautico Yeah, but how many characters were in that game and how much conversations did you have with them? And still, Hellblade had a bigger budget than any SH game and more people worked on that game too

[@marknicolas7055]

He really wanted to give it a 7 but he didn’t want to be associated with his coworkers

[@isetscott4740]

so it's exactly like L.a noire, nothing to do except the main quest

[@obi-wankenobi917]

It was basically just the sinking city, you even arrive on a boat at the start

[@JiF28]

Did they not look at any criticism for the sinking city, LIKE THE COMBAT!!!

[@daniellew.292]

Knowing I'm not the only person wanted side activity in this type of games, my heart melt 🥺

[@LaCokaNostra81]

Me: whats you playing? Mexican friend: Sherlock Holmes, Holmes

[@therocketboost]

You were so close. The response should be "It's Sherlock, holmes."

[@33R3X]

Finally IGN did a great and unbiased review 👍

[@kraenk12]

You gotta be kidding me..that game is much better than the score they gave it.

[@Aiden-hd8hw]

This game is better than that.

[@BigGuyZee]

Imaginary friend? Really? Also the guy at 5:11 seems to be enjoying himself! 😅

[@MintyCow101]

dayum sherlock be looking fine

[@RoadRoller03]

IKR

[@dapanaduragegimhansankalpa5253]

If this was a Ubisoft game ign gonna give 8 at least

[@ballzinferno9793]

You're so right.

[@wesam6385]

At least Ubisoft makes fun games. this looks just plain boring

[@ballzinferno9793]

@@wesam6385 Ubisoft makes garbage lol

[@wesam6385]

@@ballzinferno9793 They don't but ok

[@yoman9446]

@@wesam6385 ubisoft makes the most generic crap one can play. enjoy being generic

[@MeMe-sw1yu]

"Hey guys, we made an amazing game with Crime and Punishments, what do we do next!!!??" Executives - "Anything but that!"

[@mitchelweaver6801]

C&P??? C&P was horrible! Testament is the best they ever made, and it looks like they'll never surpass it.

[@volofant]

@mitchelweaver6801 Testament is so linear.

[@TheDeathCap]

Whoever scripted and did this review cooked. Calling it "elementary" at the end was the cherry on top.

[@Mr_Wheez]

A 6 for innovativeSherlock Holmes and a 7 for the same ol‘ CoD Vanguard…? Right IGN, maybe you twisted the verdicts

[@mr.lonewolf8199]

Come on it definitely better that 6..

[@DaggeroPlays]

That looks like the exact same casebook and newspaper archive menu as Sinking City

[@Jeffmatt9]

"he gets tackled at the 15" 12:28 thats was actually hilarious lol

[@aimanalsharafi1363]

L.A Noire Is the Beeeeeest...

[@gamernautico]

Yeah, the game where all the cases resolve themselves.

[@cmad2345]

It’s not a real detective game though lmao. You don’t have to use any real deduction skills.

[@Luka101M]

Damn you guys gave it like 10000 videos then a 6 lol

[@DingbatToast]

It's all about the clicks, not the quality

[@206mcnally]

The voice inflections/intonations on reviews are so annoying. Bah bah bah bahdah doo. Bee dah bah Dada doooooo. Over and over.

[@israelpinon7355]

My ps5 is overheating with this game. Wtf.

[@Neglelakkogrockruler9625]

The xbox one version hasn't been released yet.....

[@alexandercowgill8425]

Wow Wtf , spoiler warning!! No!? Cool.

[@labrxx]

I really didn't like making Jon an imaginary friend. I hate that I'm blundering my way through these first few mysteries and I keep getting notifications from Jon's diary (do imaginary friends have diaries you can just read?) about how much I'm sucking at this. Plus, an imaginary friend for "Sherly" is, along with the new pet name, just... childish. Too childish for Sherlock Holmes, certainly. Obviously I'm still making my way through the game so maybe it'll make more sense later, but right now I feel like a 7-year-old that just got tattled on for wetting the bed.

[@IDidntSetAHandle]

Not content with spoiling an aspect of the game, you go on to spoil Fight Club too? Come on man.

[@Kiwo.]

Something does not seem right with people's hair in this game istg.

[@kraenk12]

Another terrible review on this channel. This game is much better than a 6/10.

[@ksmurfer]

Just started playing this and "his imaginary friend Jon" is why i'm looking up reviews.... Like is he a ghost?!

[@hardan.a7248]

7:24 : 6 okay

[@dennisthemenace4288]

Lipsync😣

[@aguio3917]

6 / 10 Could've better

[@dekynpeters5774]

Is this fun? Is it like L.A Noire?

[@abcdefgh-fn8ww]

Press X for Doubt.

[@Aiden-hd8hw]

Yes(I didn't play it yet but watched a 30 minutes gameplay to make sure)

[@storydevice]

You really don’t need to utter every pair of sentences with the exact same inflection lol

[@AnonYmous-ov1iv]

Tell that to a valley girl

[@alexgarza4513]

WHAT IS THAT RUN ANIMATION lmao

[@prefeudalalgebra]

What's the background music?

[@marekrepan4191]

hallo,on ps4 also or please,?? thanks

[@wesam6385]

Looks low budget af

[@titularhero]

Cod got an 8

[@alexubel]

That's because it's a better game. They have a formula that works, and didn't make any drastic changes other than Zombies (which is getting reverted back after complaints).

[@BigBlakZach562]

Pc gamer gave it a eight

[@lattrel777]

Norm game ?

[@miketiger6205]

crimes and punishments was much better!

[@33bigmoney]

meh the sherlock holmes looks like a teenage movie actor since the movie hit with Downey junior. The last real Holmes was sherlock holmes vs hack the ripper. check it out

[@Eggplaant]

At least it’s still better than the devil’s daughter

[@billybadass7718]

Game seems to chug somewhat on the ps5. Not a deal breaker but annoying

[@eeee8962]

discombobulate

[@jasper2d78]

lol you lost me at imaginary friend

[@Altkdub]

this game is kinda dry 😴

[@ps4limit996]

this game is mid

[@ballzinferno9793]

Oof, you're turning onto an NPC bud.

[@workaholicrhythm]

4:08.... Agreed 😂😂😂

[@Sam-Fisher]

Nice game

[@yunushafeez5438]

How many times y’all gon review this one????

[@seanthebrawn]

Less Tyler Durden and more of a whining burden LOL

[@okoshiboshi]

La Noire..Heavy Rain is a much better detective games than this

[@mdnayem2651]

the detective part from batman games is far better. they could have done same using mind palace

[@k4rnageee]

And what was the game based on then, if the key element of the game according to your logic should be secondary like in Arkham games? This is a detective game, not an action game.

[@anthonyjohnson9088]

Who farted?

[@GrundleGrump]

Dem grrfix doe. Almost realz.

[@PapaGame]

Translation: Them graphics though. Almost real. Translated to English

[@Fwosto]

Translation: Those graphics are nice. They almost look like real life. Translated to English

[@filmetiquette2409]

Man this is disappointing

[@burppp.]

Kinda reminds me of sinking city.. very boring game regret buying it won’t be buying this... even though its super cheap, less than $10 for a bundle!

[@gondalasatvarsh5892]

It's ironic that games about Sherlok Holmes treat the player like a child and never like a true detective. Return to the Obra Dinn is one of the very few games, that allow for complete player freedom.

[@kloakovalimonada]

...and is pretty damn inscrutable for many players for that very reason. It's an interesting conundrum: let players roleplay as a detective with superpowered mind, even when the player is anything but.

[@titularhero]

No this game does not treat you like a child, especially if you up the detective difficulty in settings.

[@AK2WI]

60 bucks for this??? Wth

[@sadmanhfx]

Its 30 on steam

[@ak9084]

Is free if you pirate

[@fiqllency1758]

or you can buy this as a discount about 3 to 5 years soon probably.

[@daniellew.292]

It's 15 now on steam😂

[@westendlolo3313]

Was a cool idea lol

[@okoshiboshi]

The most annoying and boring game-wasting my money

[@sarawilliams2900]

all some new video 🎮

[@Memelord2020]

6/10

[@finnality]

Sherlock Holmes without the heart?

[@npatu2003]

Spoilers!

[@lagerbeer1974]

.................Whelp

[@cris7570]

"more of a whining burden" 😀

[@y.abuwatfa]

......

[@TheMusic4Soul]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@lukeryan1934]

It’s a 6. You can leave

[@heycidskyja4668]

SPOILER ALERT

[@SimilakChild]

Absolute garbage. They take a masterpiece detective game that takes place in the mid 18th century and turn it into a 1930's mafia style / just cause shooter? what the hell were they thinking? This game deserves to get review bombed.

[@idontlikelasagne7211]

- 12 year old

[@TriAzF]

Honestly the shooter aspect looks boring but at least you can turn it off in the settings, and the detective gameplay is still there.

[@Motherload3000]

Ratio

[@haanzheng]

荒野大摩斯

[@sirfairplay9153]

This looks wank!

[@waxdoe115]

Omg this game is horrible. Smh

[@erdemozturk4585]

this game looks terrible

[@cillirpepper6454]

Ah yes, the best console on the market, the Xbox Seris X.

[@cillirpepper6454]

(In relation to the verdict section)

[@henrytownshend8862]

Can you enter most.houses

[@titularhero]

No