'Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter' news, updates: Latest installment sees release on June 10; project manager shares what makes game different from previous ones
The latest entry to the "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" game series, "Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter," sees release today, June 10, and 14 years after the first installment was released, it can be said that Ukranian developer Frogwares still has what it takes to make a telling murder mystery game.
Aurélie Ludot, project manager at Frogwares, recently accommodated an e-mail interview with iDigitalTimes, in which he said that an impossible mystery is key to creating a heart-stopping video game.
"It can be a murder, a disappearance or a theft," he said in the interview. "It should also feature great characters who look all guilty or for the victims, peculiar."
According to Ludot, it's important to transform a story into an interactive experience that makes the compelling cases, for which Sherlock Holmes is much identified with, a player's own story.
Ludot went on to say that players will get to see a different incarnation of Sherlock in "Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter" from previous games, citing that they veered away from the original character conceptualized by Conan Doyle and created an iteration that is "more human, fragile sometimes, so that players can identify more easily with the character."
One difference from the previous games is Sherlock will have a foster daughter in this installment. Another interesting bit about the game is that a player can fail all of the cases but still make it to the end of the game.
"The game won't punish you for making a wrong conclusion, but you will have to carry its consequences until the end of the game," Ludot said. "You will be reminded, in different ways, the mistakes you might have done and you, as a player, will have to live with it."
GameSpot has given a full review of the game, and while they pointed out some of "Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter's" technical shortcomings (slow frame rate and annoying screen tearing), they did say that the game has succeeded where the previous games in the series did not.
In particular, they said that the generous serving of intriguing cases and the player's opportunity to come to his own conclusion make it a fantastic detective game.
