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Game Information
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Great investigation game play set in beautiful 360-degree locations that can be navigated with the DS stylus
- Use and combine more than 100 objects - discover and collect documents and clues to help you solve your investigation
- Dozens of puzzles to solve and traps to avoid in Lord Metcalfe's intriguing manor
- An integrated notebook allows you to note down all the clues which may be useful for your investigation
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Product Description
The most famous detective of all-time begins his first investigation on the DS.
Following the death of the famous explorer Lord Montcalfe, his daughter Elisabeth questions the police's research and secretly asks the famous detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the strange death of her father. Holmes accepts Elisabeth's request and heads to Montcalfe manor alone to begin his investigation...
Discover a fascinating and enigmatic adventure filled with twists and turns. Thanks to its user friendly controls based on the stylus and touch screen, the game allows you to move about easily in diverse and expansive 360-degree settings. This DS version of Sherlock Holmes features exclusive helpful tools such as Holmes' notebook, which allows you to jot down clues to help you during the investigation.
A mysterious death, hundreds of clues and a strange mummy mean this case may not be so elementary after all...
- The first Sherlock Holmes adventure on the DS
- A great investigation held in beautiful 360-degree settings that can be navigated with the stylus
- Use and combine more than one hundred objects - discover and collect documents and clues to help you solve your investigation
- Dozens of puzzles to solve and traps to avoid in Lord Montcalfe's intriguing manor
- An integrated notebook allows you to note down all the clues which may be useful for your investigation
- Use the help system to assist you during your exploration, preventing you from becoming stuck while leaving enough to discover to fully enjoy all puzzles
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83 of 85 people found the following review helpful
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The game had promise and started well - spooky manor house, strange things moving in the shadows and trick doors to find and open with puzzles. BUT this soon got very old very quick - you never leave the manor house so no dusty tombs or Cairo markets as I hoped for. Just the same ten or so rooms, which you move though one way and then back out again to escape. I was glad in the end that it only took me about four hours game play to complete!
The graphics are grainy meaning its hard to tell what is what in some dark corners and it wont be long before you turn the sound off to block out Sherlock's grating voice. But don't worry, the text box will still pop up and take up half the screen whenever you try to look at something.
Some of the puzzle solutions are so obscure that you end up being glad of the built in walkthrough that means you don't have to struggle with anything for long before resorting to the clues - even though it feels very much like cheating, without doing so you would soon give up on trying to figure out the random sequence of events you need to complete to get a solution.
The story line is also a little weak and if there are any sequels, I will give them a wide berth. Broken Sword, although an older game ported over for the DS is by far superior in gameplay, storyline and characterisation - I'd recommend buying that instead.
The graphics are grainy meaning its hard to tell what is what in some dark corners and it wont be long before you turn the sound off to block out Sherlock's grating voice. But don't worry, the text box will still pop up and take up half the screen whenever you try to look at something.
Some of the puzzle solutions are so obscure that you end up being glad of the built in walkthrough that means you don't have to struggle with anything for long before resorting to the clues - even though it feels very much like cheating, without doing so you would soon give up on trying to figure out the random sequence of events you need to complete to get a solution.
The story line is also a little weak and if there are any sequels, I will give them a wide berth. Broken Sword, although an older game ported over for the DS is by far superior in gameplay, storyline and characterisation - I'd recommend buying that instead.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Horrendously dark/ grainy graphics almost made me put this down straight away. I paid £29 as an impulse purchase in GAME after seeing several newspaper adverts... and it was #3 in their charts..
Awful speech/subtitles that have blatantly been stuck into babblefish and got completely the wrong meaning. "elementary" is spoken as "this is simple"... or something like that.. i'm not even going to fire up the game again to find out.
Stay well away.. if you want a good adventure try Secret Files Tunguska (if a little hard in parts) and I've just started Secret Files 2 which is looking promising!
Awful speech/subtitles that have blatantly been stuck into babblefish and got completely the wrong meaning. "elementary" is spoken as "this is simple"... or something like that.. i'm not even going to fire up the game again to find out.
Stay well away.. if you want a good adventure try Secret Files Tunguska (if a little hard in parts) and I've just started Secret Files 2 which is looking promising!
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery Of The Mummy (Nintendo DS)
This is no where near as good as Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which I couldn't put down.
The graphics are dark and the movement around the rooms can be erratic and annoying especially when you keep going into the same rooms all the time because you (or maybe its just me!!!) forget which door is which.
I haven't got to the end yet as I got bored with it, I will finish the game but am waiting for the sequel to Professor Layton to come out!
This is no where near as good as Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which I couldn't put down.
The graphics are dark and the movement around the rooms can be erratic and annoying especially when you keep going into the same rooms all the time because you (or maybe its just me!!!) forget which door is which.
I haven't got to the end yet as I got bored with it, I will finish the game but am waiting for the sequel to Professor Layton to come out!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Better on PC
I've played the mystery of osborne house on pc and took a while but ended up really enjoying it, unfortunately its much more difficult on DS. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Shar P
Has it's own walk through in game
You do not have to look for answers to anything in this game, it has it's own walk-through in it. Which comes in pretty handy for some things. Do remember to save your game a lot. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Rhena Blue
Money down the drain
Started this game on the Friday and thought it would last we a while over the Christmas holidays - oh but was I wrong! Read more
Published 17 months ago by LuvHarte
disappointing
This is not a vary good game and cannot go on further if unable to do one of the puzzles. No explanation of the puzzles either.
Published 19 months ago by Mrs. S. G. Kenny
Tedious
I expected to be in Egypt but not so. The graphics were ok but most annoying when the slightest touch caused panning at top speed! Read more
Published 20 months ago by Star
Terrible!!!!!
This game was the most complicated, boring game i have ever played. Everything about it was poor.
Published 20 months ago by tinac8462
Unimpresses.
This game was so bad. I loved Professor Layton 1 & 2 and even Millionheir but this was slow, has bad quality graphics, terrible sound too. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. S. Stewart
CHALLENGING
This has got to be the best ds game I have played so far - good storyline - great puzzles - some infuriating but still great - and a good help screen if stuck - it was wonderful... Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by A. Fone
Be fair - this is a good game
This is an OK game, and enjoyable if you simply play it for its own sake and not expect anything that isn't on the tin. . . Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2010 by Nibs
interesting game
We bought this for the kid but we have been playing it too, it took a bit to master (unlike child) but is great fun.
Published on 9 Mar 2010 by Mr. S. Andrews
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