Sherlock Holmes: Hakushaku Reijou Yuukai Jiken

a.k.a. シャーロックホームズ伯爵令嬢誘拐事件 / Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapping of the Earl's Daughter

published by Towa Chiki in 1986-12-11, developed by Another, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: action/reflex
series: Sherlock Holmes
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: jpn

1.2/5

Personal review

I don't know what the goal is in this game. You run around in different British cities and try to find clues about something I don't know about. And actually I couldn't care less, because the game is bad, one of the worst games for the Famicom I have played so far. So, there you have your top-view running around in the city scenes, where you kick and stab innocent looking citizens to gain money. Additionally there are locations where the game switches to side-view platform scenes, which have terrible controls. And everytime! you beat one of the numerous evil looking humans the game stops and gives you a text message which might be some kind of hints. And everything in this game, all items and clues are very well hidden. Yes, I admit that many old games had things very well hidden on the brink of unfairness, but at least they had acceptable controls. The music is an extremely annoying high-pitched something. So eventually (if you happen to play this game for longer than 5 minutes) you might buy a trip to the next city for more unplayable action goodness. I can't see anything positive about this game.