Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened was: a Twink being angry about leech-stuffed corpses.

After the first session of this game I was talking to my friend about it and it turned out that we were both stopping ourselves from calling Sherlock an Angry Twink from the outset. After much contemplation (sixty, ninety seconds tops) I decided to stop censoring myself and go all in starting with the second session in the game:

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is about a Cranky Twink and his Supportive Sugar Daddy. There. I said it. That is literally all you need to know about this game. If you don’t enjoy that dynamic, you won’t enjoy this game. If you find this dynamic hilarious when set in a Victorian England, subjugated to Tentacle Threats, scenario? You will fucking adore this stupid, stupid game.

The puzzles in this one were pretty mild. I didn’t bother trying to solve the safe code one, just looked it up because Life is Short and So Am I. Everything else can be brute forced with a cudgel of sheer annoyance. At one point the solution is “raccoons stole his fingers”, which is exactly the kind of Hard-Hitting Puzzle Themes we need in this day and age. But also, you figure out the raccoons well before they let you solve the puzzle, so you just get even more pissy that you know where the finger is but it won’t let you go find it until you crawl through their system to “unlock” the solution.

Sherlock could have run a little faster to speed the progression in the game, I think my finger cramped a bit mashing down the Right Trigger to keep him moving. In the final chapter the camera kept bugging out weird but it fixed itself quick enough to just make me go “whoa what” and then I could keep sleuthing, looking for blood smears and wee chants of Ia! Ia!

I finished this game in four sessions, got 100% cheevos on steam with it. Took me eleven hours in total. So it’s a nice sized game for what it is, typical Frogwares fare, and I’ll say “yes, play it” on the caveat that, again, Sherlock is sulky and bratty the entire time while Watson is for the most part his benevolent Sugar Daddy. There is little else in this game to take away from their interplay– barring some spooky-themed scenarios this isn’t really a good game to call Horror, it’s not horrifying, it’s just moist and horrible in a distant, screeching way– so you need to be Into This Relationship to get through the game I think.

YouTube Playlist: found here, hooray.

FUTURE STREAMING: We’re working on Resident Evil Requiem as our mandatory Horror game, but it’s not Moist enough to be considered Moist Horror so far. Just regular bog-standard horror. Complete with Vulgar Baby Man! The on-going youtube playlist is here, but of course I won’t be doing a patreon post about the game until it’s finished.

For non-horror, I’ll probably do another poll in a few days to figure it out. Our next one-off is going to be Maize, however, which I’ve played before but remember being fun and worth busting out for a three and a half hour stream.

Did not get around to Arcanum this week because I was so sleepy, and also Resi9 was released which distracted me. Hope to fit in the start of that somewhere on my alternating “non-zombie” days, but we’ll see.