But Crimes and Punishment has a solution for that: detective vision! Back when I played Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, I remember being stuck looking for something on-screen moving the mouse over every possible pixel until it changed in one fell swoop it turned me off to a game that mixed Holmes with Cthulhu an idea I typically love. I mean, that’s the nature of the game style so perhaps it isn’t fair of me to say “the problem”. If I don’t find a given clue, the game won’t advance, and that was why I fell out of love with adventure gaming sooner or later you’re missing something and you have to resort to a walkthrough to figure out what you missed. The problem with most of these games is that they are all scripted and there is a right and wrong solution to them. I had to go through facts systematically which was both rewarding but also quite challenging. After all, you are investigating some brutal real-life murders. Jack the Ripper you actually have to think through the crimes to such an extent that I was using a statue in my house to try to envision how certain acts were committed. But my brain wasn’t done and pointed out that in Sherlock Holmes Vs. And so my internal monologue felt settled. Yet, I argued back, you’re not actually the one committing the violent acts, are you? No, you’re investigating them. Oh yeah, duh, that’s absolutely true, said that side of my brain. Pshaw! Of course there’s violence in Adventure games just look at Sherlock Holmes games. This thought popped into my head and was almost immediately disproved by the other side of my own personality. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been discussing adventure games and one of the things I’ve noticed is the lack of violence in most of them.
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