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Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game with up to date graphics.
I hear people say they don't like how some of it is timed, but the thing is, you HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO DO WHAT YOU WANT.
and the firsy level that starts timing you is the 3rd level, and they give you 20 minutes to do a 5 minute job.

This game has a bunch of chalenging puzzles that will keep you going at this for a while.

Sometimes you may even need the internet =]
i did.
but bottom line is this game is REALLY good for fans of ancient egypt, puzzle game lovers, or people who like a challenge and have a lot of patience.

P.S. It may even scare you.

A step up from Nancy Drew

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: August 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My daughter and I purchased this game while waiting for the next Nancy Drew
We were not disappointed. Lots of puzzles, cool graphics, good story.
Our complaints were:
Some of the objects that we had to pick up were too SMALL to be seen.
We had to get use to the inventory box being in a different window.

Biggest complaint... "We could sure use George and Bess right now"... Sherlock works alone

Worth the effort

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Synopsis: A young woman writes Sherlock that her father was involved in some Egyptian archeological adventures and has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. He comes to their manor to investigate what happens alone, except for a mummy stalking him.

Unlike some of the other reviewers, I thought this was a visually pretty, at moments lush, game. Sometimes the generation of the people seemed flat, but you seldom saw people, so it wasn't a big deal. I liked the music and the other production styles and any flaws in the period feel were minimal.

This is a very hard game to play. There are some clues and some puzzles I simply couldn't have solved without a hint site. There was no intuitive way to find some items I needed and there didn't seem to be a continuity between the types of puzzles played (i.e., figuring out how to solve one was no help in figuring out how to solve another). It was also a completely different style of game then the other games I've played, especially Nancy Drew. The puzzles are much less straightforward and much more intertwined, and there was simply no instinctive or obvious way to follow them. On the upside, they also didn't have the random, somewhat pointless aspects of the ND puzzles; everything relates directly to the storyline and to each other.

It is more fair to say that this is an adventure story with some puzzles to follow to help you progress. If you can get over the fact that you will have to cheat at some point (the major drawback of the game), it's a lot of fun and worth the time spent playing. I wanted to rip my hair out at parts when I was playing it, but I was sorry to see it end when it was all over. I'd buy another game in the series, if there is one.

actually surprisingly quite good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I own more than 20 adventure games and I've seen them all the good the bad and the ugly. Dreamcatcher games often fall in the latter category but this one is actually good. I am haflway through it but I am enjoying it. The puzzles are especially good, they make sense and are well thought compared with recent releases that are helping to kill the adventure genre through poor execution (mystery of the druids anyone)?
The graphics are so-so and I don't care too much about the sound either as long as the atmosphere is good, and this game does provide that.This should be enough for real adventure gamers (ever played Ripper? great atmosphere despite poor grpahics). So give it a try, don't worry this has little in common with tomb of the pharaoh or other mediocre adventure fare. Sherlock fans will likely enjoy this even more.

Not THAT bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be somewhat more interesting than the other reviewers gave it credit for. I agree that finding some of those teeny inventory items is next to impossible. Luckily, it was easy to find a walkthrough. However, I did find that this was relatively mindless entertainment. The only puzzle that required some thought was the Japanese puzzle, but not that difficult once you figure out the concept.

An average puzzle-adventure.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Typical puzzle type game--find items and use them to solve the puzzles. The puzzles themselves ranged in difficulty; some were easy, some not. One of the most difficult things was finding all the items needed to solve particular puzzles. Not all puzzles are intuitive. You can die in this game, as well. The story was not very exciting and the animation was clunky. Sherlock's voice was annoying, but play the game if you like puzzles.

A Little disappointed!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although I did enjoy this somewhat, it was only with the help of an online hint site. I consider myself a fairly good mystery & puzzle solver but the clues in this and the way items were located, if not for those hints... I'd be pulling my hair out. Games are supposed to be fun not frustrating.
With the hints I'd give this a 3.... without I'd give it a 1... hence my 2. Try Black Mirror instead!!

average

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The reason I bought this game was so that my daughter and I could play a game together that had no blood and gore.
It was confusing sometimes and we needed the help of a hint and walkthrough web site at times. I enjoyed it because my daughter liked it. If it weren't for her I probably would have never finished it because I would have lost interest from the beginning.

Crummy game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's one thing to have timed puzzles, it's another thing to have entire sequences timed. The thing I like about adventure games is being able to explore locations and items in a deliberate manner. I don't want to have to race around clicking on every item or using all my inventory items randomly in hopes that I can get a sequence done before time runs out and Holmes is killed off. The game doesn't even let you know how much time you're being alloted to finish before time runs out. Add all that to the poor graphics and lousy interface.

Mystery of the Purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This may be an interesting game, but the screens are so dark that detail is impossible to see. I have run this on 2 XP machines, one with a flat-panel display and one with a CRT. Both screens are much too dark at even the correspponding maximum brightness settings. That, coupled with a very hyperactive mouse speed [also not controllable] render the game virtually [really] unplayable. I recommend "SAVE YOUR MONEY!"

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