Although I enjoyed Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Osborne House for what it was, it’s just too short and too expensive compared to other adventure games to fully recommend. It has a fun story and a decent variety of puzzles and I actually preferred it to the Professor Layton games, but thirty dollars for a two and a half hour game in a genre that is usually ten hours long for twenty dollars (or less!) rubs me the wrong way. SH&tMoOH is fun for what it is, but it’s also the most expensive and least enjoyable of Frogwares titles. As such, I suggest you look elsewhere until there is a massive price drop.
CSM - Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Osborne House suffers from a lack of instructions for many of the puzzles used by the game. For example, one of the first puzzles encountered is the Horizontal Lady. It has a maximum possible score of 150, but the game does a very poor job of stating the objective of the puzzle.
Impulse Gamer: It’s once again time to don on your detective cap, pop in a pipe and be transported back to Victorian England for another challenging puzzle game for the Nintendo DS as Sherlock Holmes.
Focus Home Interactive released the first Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Osborne House screenshots today.
