Remarkably good detective game with a lot of emphasis placed on investigation and deductive reasoning. While not based on any pre existing story and taking the other common approach of pitting Sherlock Holmes against some contemporary mystery, the writers of this game have a clear passion for the character that oozes through every little detail. Just cruising around in the Baker Street apartment is fun for detail dorks to pat themselves on the back for all the attention paid to literary description.

The game is very good if a bit dry, though there are a few segments that feel more experimental in their design and result in the solutions being not necessarily intuitive or working quite correctly on the first pass. This doesn't really bother me as a gigantic brained adventure game genius who is well seasoned on matters of trial and error, but may throw up early obstacles to new players that will turn them away too soon.